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John Wellington Finch
1873-1951
President 1929. Honorary member 1949
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Geologist, engineer
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Education at Colgate, D.Sc.
Univeristy of Chicago; L.L.D. University of Alabama; Honorary Doctor of
Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
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State Geologist of Colorado
1901-02; consulting engineer for Guggenheim Exploration Co., Venture
Corp., London, England, Amalgamated and Anaconda Coppers Companies,
Hayden, Stone & Co., J. P. Morgan & Co., William Boyce Thompson, Newmont
Corp., etc.; vice president and general manager N.Y. Orient Mines Co.,
director Anglo-Amer. Corp. of S. Africa, Exploration in China, Siam, and
India, Africa, Turkey and Near East, Yunnan Ming Hsing Mining Co., Ltd.
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Professor economic geology,
Colorado School of Mines, Dean of School of Mines, University of Idaho,
Director Idaho State Bureau of Mines and Geology, Director U.S. Anaconda
Copper Mining Co.,U.S. Bureau of Mines
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Member, Association of
State Geologists; fellow, Geological Society of America; Member,
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; Society of
Economic Geologists; American Association of Petroleum Geologists
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Articles on ore deposition,
on platinum, copper, and gold ores, and on ore deposits of the Western
States
from Presidents of the
Colorado Scientific Society
Additional Reading
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