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Alan Morton

Consequently, he entered studies to become a mining engineer, simultaneously playing with Queen's Park, the famous amateur club with whom he began his career in 1914.

Carl August Stetefeldt

Carl August Stetefeldt (born in Holzhausen, near Gotha, Germany, 28 September 1838; died in Oakland, California, 17 March 1896) was a United States mining engineer.

Jean Francisque Coignet

Jean Francisque Coignet (1835 - 18 June 1902) was a French mining engineer and government advisor in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan noted for his modernization of the Ikuno Silver Mine at Ikuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, near Kobe.

Mariano Ospina Pérez

Ospina studied in the Colegio San Ignacio in Medellín, Antioquia the city where he grew up and also studied engineering in the Escuela de Minas de Antioquia (Mining School of Antioquia) where he graduated as mining engineer.

Martine Bertereau

Martine Bertereau also known as Baroness de Beausoleil (born c. 1600, France – died after 1642, Vincennes, France) was a pioneering French woman mining engineer and mineralogist who traveled extensively in Europe in search on mineral deposits.

Samay Huasi

Located in Chilecito, a town located high in the Pampas Sierras of La Rioja Province, the property originally belonged to William Treloar, a British mining engineer who purchased it as a retirement property in the late 19th century.


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Ambrose Dyson

Ambrose Dyson (1876 – 3 June 1913), often known as Amb Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist, born at Alfredton, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the son of George Dyson, then a hawker and later a mining engineer, and his wife Jane, née Mayall.

Arthur Collins

Arthur L. Collins (1868–1902), British metallurgist, mining engineer and mine manager

Arthur Richardson

Arthur Charles Jeston Richardson (1872–1939), Australian cyclist and mining engineer, first man to circumnavigate Australia on a bicycle

Baron Cadman

It was created in 1937 for John Cadman, a mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant.

Carl Raymond Davis

Born in Krugersdorp, Transvaal in South Africa to American parents, Davis was educated in England at Sherborne School, and Trinity College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts) and at McGill University, Montreal (Bachelor of Arts qualifying as a mining engineer).

Carmen Baroja

Closing down after six issues her father went back to his profession as a mining engineer taking the family to Burjassot near València, Cestona in Guipúzcoa and San Sebastián.

Charles William Henry Kirchhoff

He attended school in the United States and Germany and was graduated from the Royal School of Mines at Clausthal, Germany, in 1874, taking the degree of mining engineer and metallurgist.

Duncan Smith

George Smith Duncan, tram way and mining engineer best known for his work on cable trams

Edwin Lefèvre

Mr. Lefèvre sent his son Edwin to the United States when he was a boy and he was educated at Lehigh University where he received training as a mining engineer.

Enugu State

The first European settlers arrived in the area in 1909, led by a British mining engineer, Albert Kitson.

George H. Sisson

He was a mining engineer in Arizona, and with his profits from that operation, purchased a large land concession in Baja California.

George Reginald Starr

Based in Castelnau-sur-l'Auvignon, posing as a retired Belgian mining engineer who had made a fortune in the Congo, he successfully organised a French Resistance network in the southwest corner of France, between Toulouse, Bordeaux and the Pyrenees, designated by the SOE as the 'Wheelwright Sector'.

George Starr

George Reginald Starr (1904–1980), British mining engineer and member the Special Operations Executive

Gowland

William Gowland (1842–1922), English mining engineer most famous for his archaeological work at Stonehenge and in Japan

Gustave Loehr

Born in Carlinville, Illinois, Loehr moved to Chicago in 1886 and briefly attended Lake Forest College before embarking on a career as a mining engineer.

Henry Woodward

Henry Page Woodward (1858–1917), Australian coalmine owner, geologist, mining engineer and public servant

Herbert Smyth

Herbert Warington Smyth (1867–1943), British traveller, writer, naval officer and mining engineer

James Braidwood

James Braidwood (engineer) (1832–1879), Scottish-born American mining engineer and minor industrialist, namesake of Braidwood, Illinois

James E. Atwater

Atwater is the son of noted avalanche control pioneer and author Montgomery Atwater; the grandson of Maxwell Atwater, the first mining engineer to employ flotation hydrometallurgy in North America; and the grandson of Mary Meigs Atwater, the ‘Dean of American Hand Weaving’.

John Flood

John H. Flood, Jr. (d. 1959) Mining engineer and unpublished Wyatt Earp biographer

Julien Edmund Victor Gaujot

His father was a French-born mining engineer when he emigrated to Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.

Krige

Danie G. Krige (born 1919), South African mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics

Louis Whitford Bond

On the opening of Goldfield, Nevada, Bond was highly successful as a mining engineer and became financially interested in a number of mines.

Miyazaki Yūhi

Two of his photographs were within the collection of the mining engineer Benjamin Smith Lyman and are now within the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Murray Watts

Murray Edmund Watts, Canadian mining engineer; member of the Order of Canada

Newfoundland-Labrador fixed link

It was again put forward by mining engineer Tom Kierans during the early 1970s as a means to bring hydroelectricity from Churchill Falls to the island part of the province.

Nigel Dempster

The son of an Australian mining engineer, who was fifty when Dempster was born, and an English mother, he was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset.

Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans

Part of his time there was spent camping with partners British travelogue writer Warburton Pike and the American mining engineer Marshall Latham Bond.

Ricardo Wall

Among his committed supporters there were many Irishmen: D. Alejandro O'Reilly, the count of Mahony, the count of Lacy, Diego Purcell, Diego Nangle, Pedro Stuart, Ambrosio O'Higgins, Irish geologist and mining engineer in Spain William Bowles (1720–84), Bernardine Ward and Carlos McCarthy.

Robert Kaleski

Political pressures in Poland led John Kaleski to move to Germany, where he held academic appointments at Bonn and Heidelberg Universities, and from there to Australia where he re-built a career as a mining engineer and assayer.

Robert Stanton

Robert Brewster Stanton (1846–1922), United States civil and mining engineer

Robert Wilton

Wilton, who was born in Cringleford, Norfolk, was the son of a British mining engineer employed in Russia.

Sellaite

It was first described in 1868 and named for Italian mining engineer and mineralogist Quintino Sella (1827–1884).

Sir Henry Webb, 1st Baronet

Educated at Lausanne and Paris, he trained as a mining engineer and became a director of several South Wales collieries.

Sir Richard Griffith, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard John Griffith Bt. FRS (20 September 1784 – 22 September 1878), was an Irish geologist, mining engineer and chairman of the Board of Works of Ireland, who completed the first complete geological map of Ireland and was author of the valuation of Ireland – known ever since as Griffith's Valuation.

Sir Robert Williams

Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park (1860–1938), Scottish mining engineer, explorer of Africa, and railway developer

Stan Bharti

Following his education he worked in Africa for Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines and then he moved to Canada to work as a mining engineer for Falconbridge in Sudbury.

T. Lindsay Galloway

He was a civil and mining engineer and coal master of Argyll Colliery, Campbeltown, Kintyre, and like his brothers, Sir William Galloway and Robert Lindsay Galloway, he was also the author of several papers, lectures, designs and books.

The Wilby Conspiracy

Rina, estranged from her husband Blane, is having a relationship with an English mining engineer, Jim Keogh (played by Michael Caine), who has attended Shack's trial.

Tom Fears

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Fears was the son of an American mining engineer who had married a Mexican woman, and moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of six.

Tregajorran

Richard Trevithick, the inventor and mining engineer, was born in the hamlet (then in the ecclesiastical parish of Illogan).

Warington Wilkinson Smyth

One son, Herbert Warington Smyth, was also a mining engineer, a traveller, and a Geological Survey adviser to the government of Siam.

William Boeing

Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing from Hagen-Hohenlimburg who had made a fortune and who had a sideline as a timber merchant.

William Boyce

William Boyce Thompson (1869–1930), American mining engineer and financier

William Galloway

Sir William Galloway (1840–1927), mining engineer and professor of mining

William Pengelly

Hester became a writer and, in 1902, married Henry Forbes Julian, a mining engineer, founder of the Royal Automobile Club and co-writer of Cyaniding Gold and Silver Ores.

William Stenson

William Stenson (1770–1861) was a mining engineer born in Coleorton, Leicestershire.