2015 Presidential Lecture:

How a Political Scientist Had His Head

Turned by Mining History

Bill CulverMining History Association

25th Anniversary Annual MeetingVirginia City, Nevada

#2 (1967) Chile’s Mining North

Andacollo – Modern Chili wheel working silver ore

Entrance gate and community are now gone due to pit expansion

#3 (1969) CoquimboEiffel Church Guayacán,

Herradura Bay, CoquimboUrmeneta Smelter, Herradura

Bay, Coquimbo - 1872

#4 (1970) Regidores in Monte Patria – Coquimbo

Province

#5 (1970) Allende Elected President of Chile on

September 4

#6 (1973) Military Coup on September 11

Allende at Presidential Palace Time Magazine after Coup

#7 (1970s) McGill University & Montreal

Schulich Library of Science and Engineering

Douglas Hall – Original Men’s Residence on Campus

#8 (1989) Capitalist DreamsCover of 1989 Issue Capitalist Dreams opening page

#9 (1990s) National Congresses in Latin

AmericaChilean Congress Modernization

Seminar, 1997Reorganization Planning for

Peruvian Congress Reorganization, 1995

#10 (1990s) 1872 J. Science Article

Journal of Science (London) April 1872 Issue

#11 (1995) Historians of Latin American Mining at

Plattsburgh

#12 (1999) Young Douglas & Camp

Douglas & Naomi, Quebec CityDouglas at Camp on Little Moose Lake, Adirondack

Mountains

#13 (2000) A. B. Parsons, The Porphyry Coppers

(1933) “Introduction”• The Braden mine and the other South American properties

illustrate and confirm the statement that men make mines. • If American engineers - or perhaps British - had never laid

eyes on Chuquicamata, on Rancagua, on Potrerillos, it is certain as anything can be in this world of uncertainties that the Chilean Andes would still be the undisturbed storehouse for 4 billion pounds of copper that already have gone into the industrial plants of Europe and the United States.

• The huge electric shovels, the locomotives, electric generators, crushing machinery, smelting furnaces and other equipment, representing an investment of $150,000,000 [U.S. dollars] that now are busy winning copper in South America, never would have been needed but for American engineers.

• And in saying this, no unkind reflection is directed at the Chileans or the people of any other country.

• It is not in accordance with their tradition or temperament to conceive and carry out such projects.

#14 (2001) SERNAGEOMIN Tiltil

Area Tiltil-Santiago Profile line A in Map

Table of Mine Claims

#15 (2001) 1871 Douglas Letters Home to Naomi

Original Onion Skin CopyRecopied Page in Second Book

#16 (2001) Mt. Aconcagua at 22, 841 Feet/6,962

MetersView from a Mine Road Tiltil View from Coastal Range Ridge

#17 (2002) Escritura for Invernada & Patent Letter

Invernada incorporation

Patent extension – low-grade expectations sent to Chile’s

President

#18 (2002) Invernada Mines on East Face of Costal

RangeInvernada mines and plant

looking west from Tiltil Old working at Brillante Mine

MinesPlant

#19 (2002) Tramway & Detail

Tramway from mines to plant down 2,000 feet

Close-up of tramway scar

tramway

#20 (2002) Hunt & Original Patent

T. Sterry Hunt (1826-1892) 1869 Hunt & Douglas patent

#21 (2005) Harvey Hill Mine

From Harvey Hill looking west Reclaimed hilltop

#22 (2006) MHA Globe

#23 (2015) Hernán Guerrero Operation

Hiking down the tramwayMill and flotation plant across

Tiltil Valley from mines

#24 Douglas’ 1918 Draft Letter to “My Dear

Children”“My hope is that the mining and railroad enterprises that I have been one of the instruments in developing will be carried on as heretofore;…that the value of the stocks and the rates of dividend be of very secondary consideration and in the conduct of the mines the welfare of the men under and above ground be regarded as of more importance than the cost of manufacturing copper.”