Market analyst for non-ferrous metals and non-metallic minerals, journalist, mining corporation executive, 1927-1994
By: Simon David Strauss ; with an introduction by Charles F. Barber ; interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1994. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Barber, Charles F.; Swent, Eleanor.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1995
Subjects: Reconstruction Finance Corporation.; American Smelting and Refining Company.; Southern Peru Copper Corporation.; Asarco Inc.; Magma Copper Company.; Nonferrous metal industries -- Interviews.; Nonferrous metals.; Nonmetallic minerals.
Other titles: Market analyst for non ferrous metals and non metallic minerals, journalist, mining corporation executive, 1927-1994; Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: Strauss discusses his childhood in Peru, his career as an editor, The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, American Smelting and Refining Company, Southern Peru Copper Corporation, ASARCO, Magma Copper Company, the effect of nationalist movements in the 1960s, marketing issues in the 1960s and 1970s; finally, his family.