- Joseph Henry Collins
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name = Joseph Henry Collins
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birth_date = birth date|1841|03|16|df=y
birth_place =London
death_date = Dda|1916|04|12|1841|03|16|df=y
death_place =Crinnis ,Cornwall
residence =Cornwall
citizenship = British
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field =Geology ,Mining engineering ,Mineralogy
work_institutions = RGSC, RCPS, RIC,The Miners Association , IMM, Geological Society
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prizes = Bolitho Medal of the RGSC, 1898
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footnotes =Joseph Henry Collins FGS, (1841 - 1916), mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist.
He was at various times the secretary or president of the three learned societies of
Cornwall -Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (President from 1903-1904, and 1911-1912) [ cite book
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editor = K. F. G. Hosking & G. J. Shrimpton
title = Present Views of Some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon
origyear = 1964
publisher =Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
location =Penzance
pages = p.iii
chapter = Patrons and Presidents ] , theRoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and theRoyal Institution of Cornwall . He also lectured for, and was secretary of,The Miners Association .Pioneered systematic exploration for
china clay in theSt Austell area, and had a long association with the area.Contributed significantly to the "Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall", and was awarded the Bolitho Medal by the RGSC in 1898. [ cite book
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first =
editor = K. F. G. Hosking & G. J. Shrimpton
title = Present Views of Some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon
origyear = 1964
publisher =Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
location =Penzance
pages = p.iv
chapter = The William Bolitho Gold Medal ]Founding Secretary of the
Mineralogical Society in 1876.Chief chemist and metallurgist Rio Tinto mines in Spain.
Involved in founding the
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , and was its Vice-President in 1892.His sons included
Arthur L. Collins , a mine manager murdered in America, andWilliam Edward Collins ,Bishop of Gibraltar .He died at his home in
Crinnis , near St Austell, on 12th April 1916. ["Transactions of theInstitution of Mining and Metallurgy ", 1916, p393]There is a memorial to him in Charlestown church, erected by the Mineralogical Society.
Publications
* " [http://www.archive.org/details/handbooktominera00collrich A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon] ", 1871
* " [http://www.archive.org/details/principlesofmeta00collrich Principals of Metal Mining] ", 1874
* " [http://www.archive.org/details/mineralogy00collrich Mineralogy] ", 1877
* "The Hensbarrow Granite District", 1878, republished 1992, ISBN 0951941917References
[http://www.minersoc.org/pages/msinfo/collins.html Biography from the Mineralogical Society]
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