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The approaching 100th anniversary of the founding of our first school of mines at Columbia University reminds us that the New World’s earliest achievements in mining and metallurgical education were those of the Spanish.
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WALTER CARROLL, member of AIME, translated these excerpts from an editorial by S. M. Philippov, chief specialist, Gosplan USSR, from the Sept. 1962 issue of the Soviet magazine, Metallurg.
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Morral, F.R. The Beginning of Mining and Metallurgical Education in the New World. JOM 15, 37 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03378213
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