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Cage
322
Masson, Donald Leslie
Donald Leslie Masson
Papers
1911-1969
3 containers.
1.5 linear feet of shelf space.
250 items.
Mining consultation reports and drafts
of articles, technical bulletins and an unfinished book, all concerned with
hard-rock mining.
Collection materials are in
English
Donald Leslie Masson was born in 1903 and educated as a mining
engineer in Oregon schools during the 1920s. The early part of his adult life
was spent as a mining engineer in Mexico. In 1946, he became an engineering
professor at Washington State University, assuming most of the responsibility
for instruction in the mining curriculum until his retirement in 1969. He died
in 1971.
Donald L. Masson's papers consist of consultation reports and drafts
of articles, bulletins, and an unfinished book, all relating to mining
engineering. Most mining reports are relative to mineral examinations in the
inland Northwest. The writings stress metallurgical and "hard rock" mining;
these were composed during the years Masson was at Washington State University.
The papers are arranged in two series: one of consultation reports,
and the other of drafts of various writings.
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage
322, Donald Leslie Masson
Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The papers of Donald Leslie Masson (1903-1971) were donated to the
Washington State University Library in March, 1976, by his son, D. Bruce Masson
of the WSU College of Engineering
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Masson, Donald L. --Archives
Masson, D. Bruce. waps
Mines and
mineral resources--Northwest, Pacific
Mining
engineering--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Mines
and Mineral Resources
Washington (State)
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series 1: Consultations and
Reports
1
1
Alexander-Brooklyn Mine, Nye
County, Nevada
1951
1
2
Chicken Creek Mines, Baker,
Oregon
1947
1
3
Galbraith Manganese Deposit,
Ferry Co. Washington
undated
1
4
Hansy Property, St. Regis Mining
District, Adair, Idaho
1952
1
5
Hecla Project
(Rockbolt-Photoelectric Gage Load Cell) WSU
1966
1
6
Maple Leaf Gold Mining Company,
Ymir, British Columbia
1955
1
7
C. H. Oldenburg Uranium
Examination, Hawk Creek and Lake Roosevelt, Washington
1952
1
8
Potlatch Forests Inc. Mineral
Reconnaisance, Northern Idaho
1953-1954
1
9
H. A. Salisbury Property, Sanders
Co. Montana
1951
1
10
Spokane furniture store
explosion, Spokane, Washington, March
1962
1
11
Viles Report, Sanders Co. Montana
and Stevens County Washington
1952
Series 2: Writings
1
12
Precision Mine Surveying, M. E.
Thesis, notes and draft
1947
20
items.
1
13
How to Draw the Line Between Ore
and Waste, draft
1954
2
items.
1
14
Limiting Grade Calculation for
Mine Control of Ore Grade. Drafts, employing several different
titles
ca. 1953-1956
6
items.
1
15
Annual Mining Summary of Inland
Empire. Series of articles written for the annual Progress Edition of the
Spokane Spokesman-Review
ca. 1955-1969
40
items.
2
16-22
3
23-27
Book: [Various titles:
Fundamentals of Hard Rock Mining, Fundamentals of Applied Geomechanics and
Fundamentals of Geomechanics.] Drafts of unfinished textbook on mining
engineering
ca. 1959-1960
40
items.
3
28
Extension Bulletins: Notes and
drafts of several technical bulletins published by Washington State
University
ca. 1948-1965
40
items.
3
29
Instructional and teaching notes.
Notes and drafts
ca. 1946-1965
40
items.
3
30
Profiles in Mineral Industry
Education: Washington State University, draft
1965
2
items.
3
31
Relationship of Humanities to
Engineering Education at State College of Washington, draft
ca.
1950
1
item.
3
32
Correspondence,
photographs, souvenirs
ca. 1935-1960
25
items.
Mining reports collected by
Masson
3
items.
3
33
Summit Group, Sheep Creek, West
Kootenay District, Br. Col
1911
3
33
Tract in Mesabi Range,
Minnesota
1917
3
33
Morton Mercury Field, Lewis Co.
Washington
1930