Carlos Ruiz Fuller
Geologist, first Director of the Chilean Geological Survey (National Geology and Mining Service)
About Carlos Ruiz Fuller
Lived 1916 – 1997 (aged 80). Carlos Ruiz Fuller was a Chilean geologist, known for National Geology and Mining Service.
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. 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 aerial photographs.
The mineral carlosruizite was named after him in 1994.
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Who was Carlos Ruiz Fuller?
geologist, first Director of the Chilean Geological Survey (National Geology and Mining Service)
When was Carlos Ruiz Fuller born?
Carlos Ruiz Fuller was born on 23 September 1916 in Valparaíso.
When did Carlos Ruiz Fuller die?
Carlos Ruiz Fuller died on 28 March 1997 in Santiago.
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Carlos Ruiz Fuller was a geologist.
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Carlos Ruiz Fuller was known for National Geology and Mining Service.
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Carlos Ruiz Fuller was Chilean.
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