2015 presidential lecture: how a political scientist had his head turned by mining history bill...
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2015 Presidential Lecture:
How a Political Scientist Had His Head
Turned by Mining History
Bill CulverMining History Association
25th Anniversary Annual MeetingVirginia City, Nevada
#2 (1967) Chile’s Mining North
Andacollo – Modern Chili wheel working silver ore
Entrance gate and community are now gone due to pit expansion
#3 (1969) CoquimboEiffel Church Guayacán,
Herradura Bay, CoquimboUrmeneta Smelter, Herradura
Bay, Coquimbo - 1872
#4 (1970) Regidores in Monte Patria – Coquimbo
Province
#5 (1970) Allende Elected President of Chile on
September 4
#6 (1973) Military Coup on September 11
Allende at Presidential Palace Time Magazine after Coup
#7 (1970s) McGill University & Montreal
Schulich Library of Science and Engineering
Douglas Hall – Original Men’s Residence on Campus
#8 (1989) Capitalist DreamsCover of 1989 Issue Capitalist Dreams opening page
#9 (1990s) National Congresses in Latin
AmericaChilean Congress Modernization
Seminar, 1997Reorganization Planning for
Peruvian Congress Reorganization, 1995
#10 (1990s) 1872 J. Science Article
Journal of Science (London) April 1872 Issue
#11 (1995) Historians of Latin American Mining at
Plattsburgh
#12 (1999) Young Douglas & Camp
Douglas & Naomi, Quebec CityDouglas at Camp on Little Moose Lake, Adirondack
Mountains
#13 (2000) A. B. Parsons, The Porphyry Coppers
(1933) “Introduction”• The Braden mine and the other South American properties
illustrate and confirm the statement that men make mines. • If American engineers - or perhaps British - had never laid
eyes on Chuquicamata, on Rancagua, on Potrerillos, it is certain as anything can be in this world of uncertainties that the Chilean Andes would still be the undisturbed storehouse for 4 billion pounds of copper that already have gone into the industrial plants of Europe and the United States.
• The huge electric shovels, the locomotives, electric generators, crushing machinery, smelting furnaces and other equipment, representing an investment of $150,000,000 [U.S. dollars] that now are busy winning copper in South America, never would have been needed but for American engineers.
• And in saying this, no unkind reflection is directed at the Chileans or the people of any other country.
• It is not in accordance with their tradition or temperament to conceive and carry out such projects.
#14 (2001) SERNAGEOMIN Tiltil
Area Tiltil-Santiago Profile line A in Map
Table of Mine Claims
#15 (2001) 1871 Douglas Letters Home to Naomi
Original Onion Skin CopyRecopied Page in Second Book
#16 (2001) Mt. Aconcagua at 22, 841 Feet/6,962
MetersView from a Mine Road Tiltil View from Coastal Range Ridge
#17 (2002) Escritura for Invernada & Patent Letter
Invernada incorporation
Patent extension – low-grade expectations sent to Chile’s
President
#18 (2002) Invernada Mines on East Face of Costal
RangeInvernada mines and plant
looking west from Tiltil Old working at Brillante Mine
MinesPlant
#19 (2002) Tramway & Detail
Tramway from mines to plant down 2,000 feet
Close-up of tramway scar
tramway
#20 (2002) Hunt & Original Patent
T. Sterry Hunt (1826-1892) 1869 Hunt & Douglas patent
#21 (2005) Harvey Hill Mine
From Harvey Hill looking west Reclaimed hilltop
#22 (2006) MHA Globe
#23 (2015) Hernán Guerrero Operation
Hiking down the tramwayMill and flotation plant across
Tiltil Valley from mines
#24 Douglas’ 1918 Draft Letter to “My Dear
Children”“My hope is that the mining and railroad enterprises that I have been one of the instruments in developing will be carried on as heretofore;…that the value of the stocks and the rates of dividend be of very secondary consideration and in the conduct of the mines the welfare of the men under and above ground be regarded as of more importance than the cost of manufacturing copper.”