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Date(s)
- [1870]-1984. (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
23 boxes (Offsite Storage), 3 parcels.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Mining engineer Ian Morley was born in Melbourne in 1904. He studied Metallurgical Engineering and Mining Engineering at the University of Melbourne, graduating from his second degree in 1929. His career was spent as a mining engineer in Australia and New Guinea. From 1940-1969, he was the State Mining Engineer and Chief Inspector of Mines in Queensland. He was a consultant to the United Nations, various Australian governments and mineral, petroleum and finance companies both here and abroad from the 1950s to the 1970s. In 1969 he was awarded the Imperial Service Order. He was the author of many mining articles and published Black sands: a history of the mineral and mining industry in eastern Australia in 1981.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, [1870]-1984
Collection alternatively titled as: Ian Webster Morley Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence dealing with the history of the mineral sands industry (1976-1980) and with University of Queensland Press (1980-1981); general correspondence, typescript drafts and galley proofs of "Black sands"; transcripts of talks given by Ian Morley (1977-1978); photographs, sound recordings, transcripts of sound recordings, mineral samples; newspaper cuttings; card file; personal papers including curriculum vitae 1975, 1979, 1982; research material for Black sands: a history of the minerals and mining industry in eastern Australia.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
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Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Digital copies of some items held in Fryer Library (Restricted) collection in UQ eSpace.
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Name access points
- Morley, I. W. (Ian Webster), 1904- (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.