Metallurgist for Empire Star Mine and Newmont Exploration, 1932-1955
Subtitle: plant manager for Calaveras Cement Company, 1956-1975
By: James T. Curry, Sr. ; with an introduction by Grant W. Metzger ; interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1989 and 1990.
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Metzger, Grant W.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1990
Subjects: Calaveras Cement Company.; Newmont Mining Corporation.; Empire Star Mines Company, Ltd.; Mines and mineral resources -- California -- History.; Metallurgists -- California -- Interviews.
Other titles: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: Curry discusses growing up in Berkeley, California; working for Newmont Mining Corporation and Newmont Exploration as laborer, metallurgist; efforts in community relations and air quality control as cement plant manager in Redding, California, 1959-1975; changes in working conditions and management attitudes, 1932-1975.