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Pieter Hendrik van Diest
1835-1902
President 1887
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Mining engineer
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Delft University,
Holland, E.M. degree
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Made mining surveys of
many countries from 1854 to 1873, when he came to the U.S.
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Developer of Caribou
Mines in Boulder County, Colorado
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Was United States Deputy
Mineral Surveyor, and Mining Engineer at Sunshine, Boulder County,
Colorado
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Designed and constructed
silver reduction works at Rosita, Colorado
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Chief of Land Department
of the United States Surveyor General's office in Denver
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Was long regarded as the
"father" of the Society
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Author of articles about
mineral deposits of Colorado, artesian wells of Denver, and on coal
and natural gas
from Presidents of the
Colorado Scientific Society
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