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Interview No. 904, José Anthony Quintana
Interview No. 904, José Anthony Quintana
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; describes hospital facility and medical services provided to 3,000 mine employees and their dependents; treatment of work related injuries; surgical procedures performed at mine hospital, which were a "first" in Mexico; living conditions at mine camp of Colonia San Antonio.
Interview No. 894, Gabriel Elizondo Ruiz
Interview No. 894, Gabriel Elizondo Ruiz
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project ; describes career steps taken to become general manager at Santa Bárbara, the first Mexican national to hold this position; recounts methods implemented by IMMSA following Mexicanization to increase mine production and modernize mines and mills.
Interview No. 903, Melchor Moriel
Interview No. 903, Melchor Moriel
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; details complexities of negotiating union labor contracts with mining companies; shares recollections of living conditions at La Prieta and San Francisco Mines.
Interview No. 899, Arturo M. Domínguez Morales
Interview No. 899, Arturo M. Domínguez Morales
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; Experiences as manager of small mine in remote sierras of Chihuahua; operating practices and the environment; living and working conditions at mining camps; especially San Francisico del Oro Mine, prior to Mexicanization; changes at mines after Mexicanization; activities and changes in mission of Mexican government agencies, Comisón de Fomento Minero and Consejo de Recursos Minerales.
Interview No. 895, Louise Ferrari De Petrucci
Interview No. 895, Louise Ferrari De Petrucci
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; details duties as camp administrator; reflect on changes after Mexicanization.
Interview No. 906, Joseph De Bastiani
Interview No. 906, Joseph De Bastiani
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project ; recounts experience as underground miner in Canada; discusses changes after Mexicanization of mining industry; compares operating practice of Canadian mines to Mexican mines in late 1940s and early 1950s; Eagle Picher sale of Mexican labor secretary Adolfo Lopez Mateos, later president of Mexico.
Interview No. 897, Enrique Gaitán Cortez
Interview No. 897, Enrique Gaitán Cortez
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; recounts early experiences of operating gold mine at Minillas, Durango, mercury mines at Atontonilco, Zacatecas, and Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, and antimony mines at Tanger and Pacheco, Zacatecas; first flotation mill at Velardeña, Durango; Mexican government agency Comisión de Fomento Minero; mining property selection; decline of independent miners.
Interview No. 901, Aurelio Torres Felix
Interview No. 901, Aurelio Torres Felix
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; praises ASARCO as the "best engineering school in Mexico"; discusses effect of Mexicanization on mining industry in Mexico.
Interview No. 902, Wilfredo García Reyes
Interview No. 902, Wilfredo García Reyes
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; recounts general working conditions at Torreón smelter in late 1940s and 1950s; relations of foreign supervisors with Mexican workers in 1950s; changes at smelter after Mexicanization; demise of independent mining; increased awareness of effect of mining on environment.
Interview No. 900, John T. Humphreys
Interview No. 900, John T. Humphreys
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; shares memories or early jobs in mining industry in Montana, Honduras and Nicaragua in 1940s; working and living conditions; high points of career managing San Francisco del Oro near Parral, Chihuahua; economic factors affecting mines in 1950s; Mexicanization.
Interview No. 896, Alejandro Gaitán Cortez
Interview No. 896, Alejandro Gaitán Cortez
Combined Interviews
Part of Mining in Mexico Oral History Project; shares recollections of silver, lead, and zinc mines in vicinity of San Juan de Guadalupe, Durango, at Sierra de Ramírez; gold, silver, and lead mines at Minillas, Zacatecas; developing and operating mercury mines in district of La Rosa, Durango; recognition of mercury minerals, especially calomel (HgCI); methods of retorting mercury ores; retort fuels; general working conditions.