University of Wyoming
R.H.B. Jones (1898-1983), a geologist, was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1927. He taught geology at Washington State College and Indiana State Teachers College prior to joining U.S. Steel in 1930. In his 32 years with this company, he was assigned to its Oliver Iron Mining Company in Duluth, Minnesota from 1930-1953 and to its Columbia-Geneva Steel Division in San Francisco, California from 1954-1962. He was a private consultant in Burlington, California from 1963 until his retirement in 1969.
Collection includes business correspondence (1946-1977); a small amount of personal correspondence (1956-1971); files containing correspondence, maps, notes, legal documents, memorandums, etc.; maps; notebooks; and reports, chiefly written by Jones for Oliver Iron Mining Company and Columbia-Geneva Steel Division (1931-1970).
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
There are no known other archival collections created by R. H. B. Jones at the date of processing.
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