Mining career with ASARCO, Kaiser Steel, Consolidation Coal, Homestake, 1955 to 1995
Subtitle: junior engineer to chariman of the board
By: Harry M. Conger III ; with introduction by C. Lee Emerson. 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: Asarco Inc.; Kaiser Steel Corporation.; Consolidation Coal Company.; Homestake Mining Company.; Mining engineers -- West (U.S.) -- Interviews.; Mineral industries -- West (U.S.); Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.)
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: Childhood in Depression years; Colorado School of mines; from junior engineer to shift boss with ASARCO, mine operation, mining methods; Kaiser Steel, Eagle Mountain iron mine, experiments with new equipment, explosives, management of operations, company housing; Balmer coal mine, B.C., mining methods, sales contracts to Japanese, project design and construction; Consolidation Coal Co., Midwest division, company organization; 1975-1995; Homestake Mining Co., vice president to chairman, discusses corporate organization, board of directors, government relations, international gold market, stockholder relations, project financing, mining law, mining camp social life; director, PG&E, electric power deregulation; trustee, Caltech; discusses community fund raising activities.