Haddon Rymer Forrester King (4 February 1905 – 1990), was an
Australian
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geologist, winner of the
Clarke Medal
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in 1972.
King was born in
Georgetown, British Guiana
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, son of George Forrester King and his wife Jessie Ann, née Kingsland. In 1926 he started as a surveyor’s assistant on the Geological Survey of British Guiana under the supervision of H. J. C. (Terence) Conolly. King obtained his surveyor’s licence in 1929 and then moved to Canada where he studied mining engineering at the
University of Toronto
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(B.A.Sc., 1934). King gained experience in mineral exploration working with Conolly in the
Timmins
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and
Sudbury Basin regions.
King was invited to join the newly formed
Western Mining Corporation
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in
Western Australia
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in 1934 `to apply the latest ideas in geology, geophysics, geochemistry and aerial photography to the scientific search for new mineral deposits’, collaborating with U.S. consultants. King became senior geologist in 1936. In 1953, King became chief geologist of
Consolidated Zinc
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History
The company's initial operations focused on extracting zinc from mine tailings of the Broken Hill Ore Deposit at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The company ...
.
[
King’s most significant contribution to ]mining geology
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came from his recognition that the Broken Hill ore body (along with other similar deposits worldwide) originated as sedimentary layers of metals, rather than later replacements from metallic solutions.[
King won the W. R. Browne Medal of the ]Australian Geographic Society
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in 1984.
References
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1905 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Australian geologists
University of Toronto alumni
People from Georgetown, Guyana
Guyanese expatriates in Canada
Guyanese emigrants
Immigrants to Australia