University of Wyoming
Verner Everett Jones (1905-1977), an economic geologist, spent the early years of his career doing surface and underground mapping with the Utah Apex Mining Company, Boston-Montana Mines Company, and affiliates of Standard Oil of New Jersey. After earning his Ph. D. from Cornell University in 1933, he was employed by various oil companies in the United States, Argentina, Spain, Venezuela, and Libya until his retirement in 1969.
Collection is chiefly materials from his early career (1929-1934) including maps, some hand-drawn by Jones, of mining properties in Montana, Utah, and Idaho, and of natural gas fields in New York and north central Pennsylvania; geologic notes; correspondence; reports; manuscripts; photographs; reprints; and miscellaneous other materials.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Verner Jones at the date of processing.
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