University of Wyoming
George Bently Poore was a mining engineer born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1869. He married Ida May Webber in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1898. Ida May was the daughter of George Edward Webber, Jr., president of the Rand Mining Company, Ltd. Poore was involved in a number of mining ventures in South Africa and California, including California-based American Trona Company. He was a member of the Institution of Mining Engineers and a member of the Chemical and Metallurgical Society of South Africa. He died in 1938.
The collection contains photographs relating to mining in the East Rand Proprietary Mines on the Witwatersrand Basin at Boksburg, to the east of Johannesburg, South Africa, with an accompanying letter about the photographs and mine operations from mining engineer L.T. Seymour to Thomas Mien, general manager of the East Rand Proprietary Mines (1899). There are also two letters (August 1915) regarding American Trona Corporation’s work to establish a successful paint to coat pipes for a brine pipeline to bring soda ash from Searles Lake to its potash processing plant in Trona, California, the company-owned town established by the American Trona Corporation in 1913. The collection also contains three issues of
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There are no known other archival collections created by George B. Poore at the date of processing.
This material was received from George B. Poore, Jr., in 1977.
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