John Sealy Livermore was an American geologist who discovered or helped to discover four major gold deposits in northern Nevada.
12 Facts About John Livermore
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An ancestor, Elijah John Livermore, built a grist mill and a saw mill on the Androscoggin River in 1791.
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The town of John Livermore Falls, Maine, is named after him.
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John Livermore's father, Norman Banks Livermore was a founding board member of Pacific Gas and Electric.
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John Livermore's mother, Caroline Sealy Livermore, was a conservationist in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on protection of the Marin Headlands and Richardson Bay.
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John Livermore had four brothers, environmentalist and timber executive Norman Livermore, Putnam Livermore, Robert Livermore and George Livermore.
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John Livermore examined one such deposit at the Standard Mine near Lovelock, Nevada in the late 1940s and believed that other, possibly richer, "invisible gold" deposits remained to be found.
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John Livermore then headed Newmont's exploration effort in Canada in the 1960s.
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John Livermore returned to Nevada in 1971 to form Cordex Exploration.
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John Livermore felt that a return to basic prospecting might lead to further discoveries.
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John Livermore remained active in geology, mineral exploration, and public service.
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John Livermore endowed a chair in Geophysics at the Mackay School of Mines, and supported major programs at Stanford University and the University of Nevada, Reno, usually anonymously.