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American Mining Hall of Fame
2006 Medal of Merit Recipient
Roshan
B. Bhappu
Roshan Bhappu was born September 14, 1926 and received his early
education at the
University
of
Bombay
in
India
. He received a B.S. in
metallurgical engineering in 1950, an M.S. in 1951 and D.Sc. in
1953, all from the Colorado School of Mines.
He started his engineering
career as a resident metallurgist for Miami Copper in Globe,
Arizona
. He then spent 14 years
as senior metallurgist at the New Mexico Bureau of Mines.
He also served as research professor and vice president for
research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
In 1972, he joined Mountain States Engineers group in
Tucson
,
AZ
to start the Mountain States R & D Division.
This was spun off as a separate company in 1987. Bhappu is
the founder and remains as president of Mountain States R & D
International, Inc.
During the last 33 years, Bhappu has worked on hundreds of mining
projects concerned with the extraction of base metals, precious
metals, industrial minerals, coal and uranium and has provided
special expertise in the preconcentration of minerals using Heavy
Media Separation concept, heap and dump leaching, in- situ
extraction of copper and uranium and projects related to
environmental considerations.
Bhappu was president of SME
in 1990, president of AIME in 1992 and president of the Mining
Foundation of the Southwest in 2005.
He was editor-in-chief of the Minerals and Metallurgical
Processing journal from 1986-97 and and co-editor of the Handbook
on Mineral Processing. He also has more than 100
technical articles and several patents to his credit.
Bhappu received the Van Diest Gold Medal from Colorado School of
Mines in 1968 and the Robert H. Richards Award from AIME in 1983.
He is a Distinguished Member and a Legion of Honor member of
SME and is a registered professional engineer in the states of
Arizona
and
New Mexico
and consultant to the United Nations and the World Bank.
This year the AIME Honorary Membership was presented to Bhappu
“for more than 50 years of dedication and outstanding service to
the international mining industry, in academia, research and
operations.
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