Spanish Miners

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Title: Spanish Miners
Photographer: Gazette Photo
Subject Headings: Metal Trade - Copper Industry and Trade - Copper Mines and Mining, Persons,
Condition: Good
Description: Members of the Spanish Copper Mining team are pictured with Calumet and Hecla mining officials before making an underground tour of the Allouez Mine Wednesday. [The mining team poses for a photo. Please see comment section for names of the miners.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article, August 28, 1958 [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Robert Skuggen
Date of Photo: Thursday August 28 1958
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 8.6 cm x 15.8 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-016-002-022
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• A Spanish copper mining team, concerned with management and organization questions, toured the Calumet Division of Calumet and Hecla Inc., in an effort to secure help for their problems. From left first row are: Antonio Z. Enciondo, administrative chief San Telmo Iberica Mine, Bilboa; Francisco Marfany, works manager, Industries Arsenicales Reunidas, La Coruna; R. C. DeNault, safety inspector of Calumet division; J. R. Gareau, safety manager of Calumet Division; Francisco Torres-Quevedo, mine inspector, San Telmo Iberica Minera, S. A. Huleva; Alberto de la Cruz, interpreter; John Sitar, safety inspector, Calumet division, and Ceferino Mateo, technical director, Metalicas Mines, San Agustin. Standing from left are Manuel Garrido, assistant manager Compania Espanola de Minas de Rio Tinto, S. A. Huelvia; Carlos Orti (team leader), mining engineer, Geological Survey of Spain, Madrid; Jose-Maria Fernandez, chief, Ore Dressing Laboratory, Geological Institute of Spain, Madrid; Bradford J. Johnson, Processes and Techniques Studies Branch Office of Industrial Resources, ICA, Washington D. C.; Juan Rodriguez De Rivas, mining engineer, Mines de Herrerias, S. A. Huelva; John Lasio mining superintendent, Calumet Division; Fernando Aldolfo Toca, chief metallurgical engineer, Compania Espanola de Minas de Rio Tinto, S. A., president. National Sqndicate of Metals, Huelva; Jose Merino, technical director. Commercial Quimico Metalurgica, S. A. (Calchopyrites), Bilboa; Patricio Ruedas, interpreter, and Garfield Maynard, underground foreman at Allouez mine, Calumet division. [Daily Mining Gazette Article, Thursday, August 28, 1958 pg. 2]
11/14/2007 2:57:24 PM by Christine Holland, Archives