Kazimierz Grochowski (1873-1937) was a Polish

mining engineer Mining in the engineering discipline is the extraction of minerals from underneath, open pit, above or on the ground. Mining engineering is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, and ...

, explorer,

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, and writer specializing in studies of

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Works

*''Polacy na Dalekim Wschodzie'' (1928

References

*Robert Niedźwiedzki, 2008. ''Kazimierz Grochowski (1873–1937) - zapomniany badacz złota Syberii.'' Przegląd Geologiczny, 6: 460-464

*Edward Kajdański
The Silk Roads and engineer Kazimierz Grochowski
1873 births 1937 deaths Polish explorers Polish mining engineers 20th-century Polish geologists Polish ethnographers 20th-century Polish archaeologists Polish male writers Explorers of Siberia Explorers of Central Asia {{Poland-bio-stub