Portrait of Rossiter W. Raymond

People/engineer, writer

Rossiter W. Raymond

Rossiter W. Raymond (1840–1918), engineer, writer, from United States. Linked to gold, silver.

Legacy

Studied at Freiberg, became US Commissioner of Mineral Statistics in 1868 and advised Congress on the Mining Law of 1872. He edited the Engineering and Mining Journal from 1867 to 1890 and was Secretary of the American Institute of Mining Engineers from 1884 to 1911.1,2,3

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Timeline

  1. 1872General Mining Law of 18724
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People

Partner ofWaldemar LindgrenTwo Freiberg graduates who shaped American mining science.1,5

Mines

Worked atFreiberg silver mining districtHe studied at Freiberg and edited the Engineering and Mining Journal.1

Events

InspiredGeneral Mining Law of 1872He advised Congress as the US Mining Law of 1872 took shape.1

Sources

  1. Hall of Fame: Rossiter Raymond Mining Foundation of the Southwest
  2. Wikidata item Q7369854
  3. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons
  4. Mining Claims and Sites on Federal Lands (PDF) US Bureau of Land Management
  5. Hall of Fame: Waldemar Lindgren Mining Foundation of the Southwest

Pictures on this page: Rossiter worthington raymond photo.jpg, Not stated (portrait before 1919) (Public domain); Waldemar Lindgren cph.3b21646.jpg, Clinedinst, Washington, DC (Public domain).

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Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. (Public Domain Mark 1.0); South Africa: a crowd of people gathered outside The Goldfields offices in Johannesburg. 1896., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0).