2010 Hall of Fame

Terence P. ("Terry") McNulty earned a B. S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1961, an M. S. in Metallurgy from Montana School of Mines in 1963, and a doctorate in Metallurgical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 1967. He considers himself very fortunate to have been able to work as an analytical chemist before and during college and to have had jobs in industry during post-graduate studies. He is a Registered Professional Engineer.

He was employed for 20 years by The Anaconda Company in various research, operating, and management positions, the last including 5 years as corporate Manager-Metallurgical Research and Technical Support. He then served as VP-Technical Operations for Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation for 3 years before joining Hazen Research, Inc., as President and CEO. In late-1988, he left Hazen and, with his wife, Carol, founded T. P. McNulty and Associates, Inc., a global consulting firm with as many as 24 associates, including metallurgists, chemical engineers, geologists, and mining engineers. He continued to serve on Hazen's board as an outside director and was Chairman from 1996 until he retired from the board in 2005.

Terry has obtained two patents in copper metallurgy and has published over 40 technical papers and textbook and handbook chapters dealing with minerals processing and extractive metallurgy, process control, energy conservation, and technology development. He is a member of AIME (SME and TMS), MMSA, Mining Foundation of the Southwest, and the National Academy of Engineering, to which he was elected in 2005. He has served for several terms on the MFSW Board of Governors. He was awarded the Distinguished Career Achievement Medal by Colorado School of Mines in 1989 and served on the Board of Trustees of that school during 1989-1992. He was a Henry Krumb Memorial Lecturer for AIME in 1989 and served as an Accreditation Board Visitor for SME and TMS during 1985-1997. In 2002, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Montana Tech. In 2004, he received the Robert H. Richards Award "for distinction in mineral processing" from AIME.

Nyal Niemuth has used his knowledge of minerals, the mining industry, and Arizona deposits to promote mineral development for more than 30 years. Nyal, a paradigm of a "public servant" in the finest sense of that phrase, has served the citizens of Arizona and the mining community with dedication, passion, and enthusiasm in his position of mining engineer at the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources.

A Wisconsin native, Nyal was intrigued by the glacial erratics he found when cultivating the fields on his family farm. He attended the University of Wisconsin where he received a Bachelor of Science in Geology. After moving to Arizona Nyal began working for ADMMR where he has spent more than 29 years. Nyal became an Arizona-registered professional geologist in 1994 and the Department's Chief Mining Engineer in 2005.

With his trademark blend of unfailing good humor and encyclopedic memory, Nyal has provided thousands with the mineral information they require, whether dealing with an exploration geologist from a large mining firm or a lone prospector in from the field. He promotes mining interests by recognizing opportunities and assisting explorationists to develop appropriate targets.

Nyal has assembled an impressive library of mineral and mining information, consisting of mine files, books, maps, and photographs. This resource has become the most comprehensive and accessible collection of Arizona mining information available. Nyal is known for acquiring deposit information even when he has limited travel dollars to go get it, the manpower to catalog it, or the space to store it.

Always willing to share his knowledge, Nyal believes in the importance of the mining industry and advances that message in seminars, his writing, and at conferences. As a tireless advocate for the mining industry, he is a firm defender against mining scams and false promotions. He has saved numerous naïve investors from losing money in unscrupulous schemes. He then urges regulatory agencies to bring those firms to justice or force them to cease and desist.

Nyal is the author of more than 50 technical publications for ADMMR, as well as countless articles for mining industry journals. He has actively served in numerous geologic, mining, and mentoring organizations. Because of a curiosity about the stones in a Wisconsin farm field, the mining world today has an impassioned proponent whose career stands as a positive and wide-ranging influence on the industry.

J. Parke Channing, a native of New York City graduated from the School of Mines at Columbia at age 20. In his early career, he worked in both the copper and iron mines of northern Michigan where he made valuable acquaintances and picked up consulting work before heading west.

In 1897, his consulting led to a long professional relationship with the Lewisohn Brothers, metal traders and mining magnates of New York City. On an Arizona trip in 1897 for the Lewisohns, Channing took a memorable side trip to the Clifton/Morenci district, where he observed James Colquhoun's Arizona Copper Company's successful operation profitably concentrating low-grade (3%) disseminated copper ore.

That same year, he examined the Highland Boy mine in Utah, on which the Lewisohns had an option that was about to expire. His examination of this high-grade mine revealed that much of the ore was primary and consequently would likely extend to depth. He wired his employers not to let the option lapse, resulting in a profitable investment for them.

Channing's next accomplishment was the further exploration of copper properties at Ducktown, Tennessee. Channing felt that by combining Lake Superior mining methods and Montana smelting practices, copper could be produced for ten cents a pound. This proved to be so and as a result, the Tennessee Copper Co. was a success. When pyritic smelting was perfected, Channing adopted it for Tennessee Copper, further lowering smelting costs. This brought about lawsuits from farmers, whose crops were adversely affected by the concentrated sulfur smoke. Channing sought advice from a German chemical firm, who said acid could be produced by using the chamber process. Tennessee Copper Co. thus became a significant sulfuric acid producer, giving it a profitable co-product.

In 1905, he made an examination and report on the property of Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. Here, the observations from his 1897 visit to Arizona Copper Co. "were of incalculable value", for Channing saw that by applying Lake Superior mining methods, Arizona Copper's concentrating, and Montana smelting practices, the property would be profitable. Based on Channing's recommendation, Hayden Stone & Co. financed the venture through a stock sale.

In December 1906, he met an acquaintance in Globe, Arizona, who suggested looking at some ground six miles west of Globe. This led to optioning some 200 acres of land with no visible signs of ore, which Channing thought might have a significant layer of secondary enrichment. Development started the next month (January 1907). In May, one of the shafts hit 3% copper at a depth of 220 ft. In less than four years from the initial discovery, Miami Copper Co was in production; it shares the honor with Ray as being Arizona's first large-scale porphyry copper producer. Channing stayed involved with Miami Copper Co. until his death.

Arthur C. Daman was born in Chicago in 1889, the youngest son of German immigrants. He attended an art school as a young boy, which created a passion that continued throughout his life. He began his studies at Colorado School of Mines in 1909 but left after one year to work with Western Union. Four years later he returned to Mines and graduated in 1915 with a Mining Engineering Degree. He worked as a mill man in Arizona and Nevada until starting with Stearns-Rogers in 1917. There he headed the ore dressing department for ten years. His principal work was the design and construction of concentrating mills throughout the country. He left Stearns-Rogers in 1927 believing he could design and manufacture better mill equipment than he had been procuring as an engineer with Stearns.

With that goal, he started Denver Equipment Company (DECO) in 1927. For the next 40 years the company grew under his direction into a leading manufacturer of ore processing equipment.

Daman was quick to understand that mining was a global industry and had established sales offices throughout the world by 1950. Prior to 1957 the manufacturing was done in Colorado Springs, Colorado; the company added a small factory in Lima, Peru in 1957 to support the exploding copper markets in Peru and Chile. This second factory helped alleviate the problem of getting spare parts transported and through customs in any kind of urgency. Several mills in the southwest were outfitted with new DECO machines well into the 1970s. DECO become a division of Joy Manufacturing Company in 1967. Mr. Daman had been president of DECO since inception and served as a director of Joy Manufacturing for one year until his death in 1968.

He first published the "Denver" catalog in 1936. Later editions included "Denver Equipment Index" in 1947, the still well known "Denver Equipment Handbook" in 1954, and "Mineral Processing Flowsheets" in 1962. The Equipment Handbook was an 840-page bible for our industry and particularly for operating miners. The first 300 pages were devoted to equipment description uniquely including photos, dimensions, capacities, HP and shipping weights. This was followed by engineering data on process theorem, ore testing, common flow sheets, cost data, mineral characteristics, formulas, tables, conversion factors, temperatures scales and indices. The Mineral Processing Flowsheets provides flowsheets to process all manner of metallic and non-metallic commodities.

When most companies were managed by men in their fifties and early sixties, he successfully ran Denver Equipment Company well into his late seventies. He stressed customer satisfaction as the way to continued success and lived his business until he died. AC Daman was an outstanding engineer, inventor, and illustrator. As an educator and communicator, he freely shared his mineral processing knowledge enlightening ourselves and so many of our predecessors.

Charles F. Park, Jr.'s interest in geology began with the mineral collection he prepared during his boyhood in Wilmington, Delaware. That interest led to his attending the New Mexico School of Mines and earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1926. His academic interests and skills continued to grow as a student of geological engineering at the University of Arizona, where he received a Master of Science degree in 1929, followed by a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Minnesota in 1931.

Beginning his career as a mine surveyor in New Mexico, he quickly joined the U.S. Geological Survey where he continued to work for 15 years, ultimately leaving the Survey with the position as geologist in charge of the section of metalliferous deposits. He joined the Geology faculty of Stanford University in 1946 and became Dean of Mineral Sciences there in 1950 – a position he held until 1965. Dr. Park held the Donald Steel professorship until his retirement in 1968 and was Professor Emeritus from 1968 to 1975, during which time he also was a visiting professor at both Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan.

His contributions also include serving as president of both the Society of Economic Geologists and the International Association of the Genesis of Ore Deposits.

His rich experience of field research led him to consistently emphasize the importance of field observations as a crucial foundation for research and new ore deposit discoveries. This crucial philosophy was readily instilled in his geology and mining students and is reflected in his writings. This talent with both teaching and searching for ore deposits is reflected in his personal bibliography of more than 75 publications including "Geology of Ore Deposits", which was first published during his service as Dean at Stanford. This widely respected textbook was originally co-authored with Roy McDiarmid and subsequently was revised and co-authored with John Guilbert.

Charles Park's talents as a resource scientist expanded well beyond the halls of Stanford: he was on the boards of directors of several corporations, including Homestake Mining Company and the Golden Cycle Corporation as well as science textbook publisher Freeman, Cooper and Company. As a professor of economic geology, his greatest legacies are the many geologists and engineers at Stanford and numerous other universities that he inspired to explore, research, and develop ore deposits around the globe.