Carlos Ruiz Fuller
Carlos Ruiz Fuller | |
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| Born | September 23, 1916 |
| Died | March 28, 1997 (aged 80) |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
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| Fields | Geology |
Carlos Enrique Ruiz Fuller (September 23, 1916 – March 28, 1997) was a Chilean geologist and mining engineer noted for his planning and direction of the Institute of Geological Investigations of Chile and his pioneering surveying and mapping of Chile's metal deposits in the 1960s. He was also the head of the geology sector of the Production Development Corporation (CORFO) and undersecretary at the Ministry of Mining of Chile between 1954 and 1957.
In the mid-1940s he led an economic geology study of the ores of the Chilean Iron Belt.[1] He contributed to the establishment of the lime quarry in Guarello Island in 1949 when he in 1946 helped identify this remote marble (marble) area from aereal photographs.[2]
The mineral carlosruizite was named after him in 1994.[3]
References
- ^ Millán, Augusto (1999). Historia de la minería del hierro en Chile (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria. p. 196. ISBN 956-11-1499-2.
- ^ Danús, Hernán (2007). "IV. La minería del hierro y la industria siderúrgica". Crónicas mineras de medio siglo (1950-2000) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores. pp. 142–147. ISBN 978-956-284-555-7.
- ^ "Carlosruizite". Mindat. 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2012.