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MILTON H. WARD
Pages 352-357

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... Dad believed that the best preparation for a mining executive was to work up through operations: from miner to foreman to superintendent to vice president of operations to president and finally to chief executive officer and chairman. This path provided Dad with a profound understanding of a wide range of technical and managerial issues ranging from initiating a block cave to keeping a mine union-free to financing some of the largest mines in the world.
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From page 354...
... He was a true scholar and was extraordinarily knowledgeable about all aspects of mineral production. His extensive library contained texts dealing with not only mining methods, mining engineering, and rock mechanics but also geology, geophysics, mineral processing, hydrometallurgy and smelting, marketing, and mineral economics.
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From page 355...
... He led by example and made tough jobs easier because of his quick wit, fine sense of humor, and endless supply of jokes and stories. Milt's first employer in the mining industry was the San Manuel Copper Corporation in southern Arizona, where he worked as underground miner, shift boss, engineer, and supervisor.
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From page 356...
... , Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, International Council on Metals and the Environment, and Advisory Council on International Investments. AIME awarded him the Saunders Gold Medal, its highest honor for mining executives and mine developers.
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