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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 77-81

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... , president of Ward Resources, Inc., was previously president and chief executive officer of Cyprus Amax Minerals Company, president and chief operating officer of Freeport Minerals Company, and an officer of a number of other public companies. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his leadership in developing, building, and operating major mineral production facilities in remote and challenging environments.
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... Deposit-scale studies examine the genesis of ore deposits through detailed field work and careful laboratory research to characterize the geologic setting of deposits and determine alteration and mineralization events. District-scale investigations involve geologic mapping to determine the tectonic and structural factors important in localizing mineral deposits and to evaluate regional-scale fluid flow and the geochemical processes involved in mineral deposit formation.
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... He worked for a year as an Economic Affairs Officer for the Mineral and Metals Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Switzerland and spent two years at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria directing a research program on mineral trade and markets. More recently, he has been a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C.; a senior Fulbright scholar at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines in Paris; and a visiting scholar at the Centro de Mineria at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago.
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