Metallurgical engineer
Subtitle: Union Carbide, Bechtel, San Francisco Mining Associates; metallurgical consultant, 1953 to 2000
By: Robert Shoemaker ; with an introduction by John O. Marsden. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1999 and 2000. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2001
Subjects: Bechtel Corporation.; Union Carbide Corporation.; San Francisco Mining Associates.; Metallurgists -- Interviews.; Mining engineers -- Interviews.; Mining engineering.; Metallurgy.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: Education, Oregon State University, University of Wisconsin; Union Carbide Co., mineral processing research, solving materials, handling, radiation, viscosity problems; 1962-1981: Bechtel Engineers, chief metallurgical engineer, plant design and construction, plannng for startup, designing for environmental protection; Alberta tar sands; Palabora gyratory crusher failure; Carlin, Nevada, carbon-in-pulp recovery process; Alligator Ridge, Candelaria, heap leach; electrolytic, grinding problems solved; 1981-2000: independent consulting, expert witness; discusses working in Kazakhstan, Congo, Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, Venezuela, Chile, South Africa, bribery, theft, fraud in mining enterprise. Volume also contains indexed Shoemaker memoir.

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