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Sir Lindesay Clark 〔( Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering: Former Fellows )〕 (7 January 18963 January 1986) was a renowned Australian mining engineer and company director. He had a profound influence on the metallurgical industry in Australia and on the attitudes of many of its later leaders. ==Biography== Gordon Colvin Lindesay Clark was born in South Melbourne in 1896, the eldest of six children. He spent his childhood in Tasmania, where his father was a mining engineer for Mount Lyell Mines.〔(National Library of Australia Catalogue )〕 He had a governess until age 12, but attended secondary school in Launceston. He gained a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tasmania in 1916. During World War I, he served on the Western Front as an engineer, rising to the rank of lieutenant (he was commissioned in the field at Ypres〔(Australian Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame )〕). He was awarded the Military Cross in 1919.〔(It’s an Honour: MC )〕〔(Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 February 1919 )〕 On return home he went back to study, gaining a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1923. In 1922, he went to work with his father, who was then a consulting engineer for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, which was developing the Yallourn coal deposits for electricity generation, under the leadership of Sir John Monash.〔(Technology in Australia 1788–1988: Sir Lindesay Clark, An Appreciation )〕 He lectured at the University of Melbourne and established his own consultancy, doing mining engineering work in Central Australia, Queensland and New Guinea. He went to work for Gold Mines of Australia Ltd in 1930, beginning a 48-year association with that company. He became manager in 1931, and technical managing director of Western Mining Corporation Pty Ltd (WMC) in 1933, holding that position until 1962.〔(Bright Sparcs )〕 During World War II, he was engaged by the federal government as Deputy Controller of Minerals Production. This resulted in ventures such as extracting scheelite from King Island. He joined the boards of various BHP-controlled companies and directed the expansion of WMC's operations in Western Australia and Victoria. He became Chairman of WMC in 1952, retiring in 1974. The bauxite deposits in the Darling Range (WA) were proven under his watch. He became chairman of Alcoa Australia Pty Ltd on its foundation in 1961, and his efforts led to the creation of the integrated aluminium industry in Australia. He was involved in the first exports of iron ore to Japan, the discovery of nickel and the development of a nickel industry, and the discovery of uranium deposits at Roxby Downs in South Australia. Lindesay Clark was president, fellow or member of a number of organisations, including the Australian Mines and Metals Association, the chambers of Mines of Western Australia and Victoria, the Australian Mineral Industries Research Association, the Australian Mining Industry Council, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (Fellow 1975),〔 the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (London). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lindesay Clark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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