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Tomorrow afternoon in Pierce Hall, Room 110, Professor L. C. Graton will deliver the fourth of a series of popular lectures on engineering. His subject will be "The Deepest Mines of the World...
March 21--"The Deepest Mines in the World", Professor L. C. Graton...
Professor L. C. Graton resumes his duties after a year of inspecting deep mines and tunnels in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. He was sent by the Bureau of International Research to study the characteristics of ores which lie more than a mile below the ground, and the methods by which mines are constructed at such depths...
...award of $2,000 to L. C. Graton, Professor of Mining Geology, from the Shaler Memorial Fund to aid his research work in the mines of Africa next year was announced yesterday. Professor Graton has previously been granted a Sabbatical for the year 1927-28 and backed by the Bureau of International Research has formed plans to study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines which are to be found in Brazil, South Africa, and South India...
Although Professor Graton will visit mines in all of these regions the Shaler award, is specifically for the study of copper deposits in the Belgian Congo and Rhodesia. The work in South Africa, however, will constitute only a small part of Professor Graton's extensive survey which comprises visits to every mine in the world over a mile deep and which takes in most of South America as well as Africa and certain spots in India and England...