Leading a changing Utah construction and mining company
Subtitle: Utah International, GE-Utah, BHP-Utah, 1954-1987
By: Alexander M. Wilson ; with an introduction by Keith Wallace. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1996 and 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Mecia, Joseph Anthony.; Utah International Inc.; Utah Construction & Mining Co.; BHP-Utah Minerals International.; Mining engineers -- West (U.S.) -- Interviews.; Mines and mineral resources -- Utah.; Mineral industries -- Utah.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: Tulare County background; WWII, Burma Road; UC Berkeley College of Mines; positions with Yellow Pine Mine, Stibnite, ID, and Mountain Pass Mine, CA; Utah Construction & Mining Co. from 1954, head of mining division: Lucky Mc uranium mine, Navajo Mine at Four Corners; Utah Development Co., Australia: Queensland Coal, Bowen Basin, Mt. Goldsworthy, Hay Point port, negotiations with Whitlam government, Mitsubishi; sale of construction division to Fluor, 1969; Utah International, President, 1971: difficulties of merger with GE, 1975; Escondida Mine, Chile, Peruvian nationalization of Marcona Co.; BHP-Utah, acquisition and merger, 1984-87; discusses dealings with government leaders in US, Canada, Japan, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, big game hunting, industrial health issues, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Foundation, family and health matters.

letters from Francesca Mecia Krauel regarding her father Tony (Joseph Anthony) Mecia.