Pit & Quarry, April 2013
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES Arthur Taggart served as a designer and advisor to multiple South American mines during the early 20th century operations for his Handbook of Ore Dressing Today the handbook represents the great shift from ore dressing as an art to mineral processing as a science The Handbook of Ore Dressing was updated and once again published as the Handbook of Minerals Processing in 1945 Many of todays producers and manufacturers still reference the handbook as their mineral processing bible I dont know what was going on back then but somebody was eating their Wheaties from 1880 to 1910 Bennington says My degree is in aerospace originally and almost all of the airplane stuff we use today is from the 1800s too None of us are mining engineers but even to the lay observer the handbook seems like a monumental work says Christopher Hall one of Taggarts grandsons To think that it was largely his original thinking and that many of the processes and devices described in detail were of his own design is even more impressive In addition to his aggregates industry contributions Taggart was a botanist chemist photographer and champion golfer Arthur Taggart took much of the knowledge he gained in the Western U S and South America and applied it to his teaching and handbooks 44 PIT QUARRY April 2013 www pitandquarry com
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