Joseph Henry Collins

Joseph Henry Collins

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birth_place = London
death_date = Dda|1916|04|12|1841|03|16|df=y
death_place = Crinnis, Cornwall
residence = Cornwall
citizenship = British
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field = Geology, Mining engineering, Mineralogy
work_institutions = RGSC, RCPS, RIC, The Miners Association, IMM, Geological Society
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Joseph Henry Collins FGS, (1841 - 1916), mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist.

He was at various times the secretary or president of the three learned societies of Cornwall - Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (President from 1903-1904, and 1911-1912) [ cite book
last =
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editor = K. F. G. Hosking & G. J. Shrimpton
title = Present Views of Some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon
origyear = 1964
publisher = Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
location = Penzance
pages = p.iii
chapter = Patrons and Presidents ] , the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the Royal Institution of Cornwall. He also lectured for, and was secretary of, The Miners Association.

Pioneered systematic exploration for china clay in the St Austell area, and had a long association with the area.

Contributed significantly to the "Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall", and was awarded the Bolitho Medal by the RGSC in 1898. [ cite book
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first =
editor = K. F. G. Hosking & G. J. Shrimpton
title = Present Views of Some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon
origyear = 1964
publisher = Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
location = Penzance
pages = p.iv
chapter = The William Bolitho Gold Medal ]

Founding Secretary of the Mineralogical Society in 1876.

Chief chemist and metallurgist Rio Tinto mines in Spain.

Involved in founding the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, and was its Vice-President in 1892.

His sons included Arthur L. Collins, a mine manager murdered in America, and William Edward Collins, Bishop of Gibraltar.

He died at his home in Crinnis, near St Austell, on 12th April 1916. ["Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy", 1916, p393]

There is a memorial to him in Charlestown church, erected by the Mineralogical Society.

Publications

* " [http://www.archive.org/details/handbooktominera00collrich A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon] ", 1871
* " [http://www.archive.org/details/principlesofmeta00collrich Principals of Metal Mining] ", 1874
* " [http://www.archive.org/details/mineralogy00collrich Mineralogy] ", 1877
* "The Hensbarrow Granite District", 1878, republished 1992, ISBN 0951941917

References

[http://www.minersoc.org/pages/msinfo/collins.html Biography from the Mineralogical Society]


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