A life in mining
Subtitle: Siberia to chairman of Newmont Mining Corporation, 1909-1985
By: Plato Malozemoff ; with an introduction by Robert Ramsey ; interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1987 and 1988.
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1990
Subjects: Newmont Mining Corporation.; University of California, Berkeley. College of Mining.; Mining engineers -- California -- Interviews.
Other titles: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: Malozemoff discusses his childhood; Lena Goldfields; escape through Manchuria to Oakland, California, 1920; education: University of California College of Mines, Montana School of Mines; metallurgist, Pan American Engineering Co., 1934-1941; mine manager, Argentina, Costa Rica, 1941-1943; mine analyst for Office of Price Administration, 1944-1945; staff engineer, president, chairman, Newmont Mining Corp., 1945-1985; metal and coal mining, cement and oil ventures in Africa, Australia, Indonesia, North and South America; associations with Stephen Bechtel, George Shultz.