Portrait of Waldemar Lindgren

People/geologist, scientist

Waldemar Lindgren

Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939), geologist, scientist, engineer, from United States. Linked to gold, silver, copper.

The lucky break

Trained at the Freiberg Mining Academy, emigrated in June 1883 and in 1884 designed smelter furnaces for Marcus Daly and Anaconda before joining the US Geological Survey.1,2,3

Legacy

Spent 31 years at the USGS, rising to Chief Geologist in 1911, then headed the geology department at MIT until 1933. His Mineral Deposits (1913) became a classic, and he helped found Economic Geology in 1905.1,2,3

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People

Worked atMarcus DalyIn 1884 he designed smelter furnaces for Marcus Daly's Anaconda.1Partner ofRossiter W. RaymondTwo Freiberg graduates who shaped American mining science.1,4

Mines

Worked atFreiberg silver mining districtA Freiberg-trained Swede who became the USGS's Chief Geologist.1

Sources

  1. Hall of Fame: Waldemar Lindgren Mining Foundation of the Southwest
  2. Wikidata item Q174242
  3. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons
  4. Hall of Fame: Rossiter Raymond Mining Foundation of the Southwest

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

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Underground mining equipment by Kaupo Kikkas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: 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); Falu gruva, Lundberg, Bengt A / Europeana (CC0 1.0); 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).