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Daniel Cowan Jackling

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Daniel Cowan Jackling.
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Category: Science & Tech
Born:
Aug. 14, 1869, Appleton City, Mo., U.S.
Died:
March 13, 1956, San Francisco, Calif. (aged 86)
Subjects Of Study:
copper processing
process metallurgy
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Daniel Cowan Jackling (born Aug. 14, 1869, Appleton City, Mo., U.S.—died March 13, 1956, San Francisco, Calif.) was an American mining engineer and metallurgist who developed methods for profitable exploitation of low-grade porphyry copper ores and thus revolutionized copper mining. In particular, Jackling opened the famed Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah. Jackling typifies America’s favourite story—that of a poor boy who becomes an industrial giant. Orphaned at age two, he spent most of his boyhood on farms, going from one relative to another. In September 1889 he entered the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla, where he finished the ...(100 of 381 words)

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