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- W98254216 abstract "Herbert Hoover, 31 President of the United States, was a successful mining engineer and author prior to becoming president. Part of his mining engineering career was spent in the goldfields of Western Australia, where he has become part of the local folklore. Hoover allegedly had an eye for the ladies and fell in love with a barmaid to whom he wrote a love poem. INTRODUCTION In this issue of The Compass, Merriam (2012) presents a brief history of Geology and the American Presidency. The article concludes with a discussion of Herbert Hoover, the only U.S. President with a science degree and that degree was in geology! Before becoming President of the United States, Herbert Hoover did make a significant contribution to mining geology, but there is an interesting side note to Hoover’s time in Western Australia, which has become part of the ‘folklore’ of the Western Australia gold mining district. KALGOORLIE-BOULDER, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Although most of Hoover’s Western Australian mining experience took place in Leonora, he did spend time in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder gold mining region located 235 km south of Leonora. Today, Kalgoorlie-Boulder is the home of Western Australia’s superpit (fig. 1), an open-pit mine that is so large it can be seen from space. Other than the fact that the streets are paved with bitimum (asphalt) and it is a bit easier to get a glass of water (water is brought to Kalgoorlie via a 530 km pipeline from the Mundaring Weir near Perth), Kalgoorlie seems to have changed very little from when Hoover spent time there. Prostitution is legal, as it was in Hoover’s day and it’s still the same rough and tumble mining town. Over 100 years later, the legacy of Hoover’s time in Kalgoorlie still persists and he is still part of the local lore. Unlike the rigid and dour personality attributed to the Depression Era Herbert Hoover (McElvaine, 1984), it seems that Hoover had lighter side and alledgedly had an eye for the ladies. Figure 1. View of the Kalgoorlie super pit from approximately 1000 metres. Photo by Larry Davis (2010)." @default.
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- W98254216 title "Herbert Hoover: Only an Eye for Gold?" @default.
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