Person

Sticht, Robert Carl (1856 - 1922)

Born
8 October 1856
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States of America
Died
30 April 1922
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation
Metallurgist and Mining engineer

Summary

Robert Sticht was the General Manager, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd. Queenstown, Tasmania from 1897 to 1922. He introduced into Australia, on a large scale, the German-American copper smelting technology of waterjacket blast furnaces and converters. In 1902, he was the first in the world to successfully pioneer pyritic smelting.

He was the father of Robert Carl Sticht (Jnr) (1895?-1958).

He is commemorated by the mineral stichtite.

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Sticht was also
* Fellow, Royal Society of Tasmania;
* Fellow, Royal Society of Victoria;
* Member, Colorado Scientific Society, Denver;
* Member, Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria;
* Member (MAmIME), American Institute of Mining Engineers;
* Fellow, Royal Society of Arts;
* Fellow, North British Academy of Arts;
* Member, American Electro-Chemical Society.

Chronology

1875
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Brooklyn Polytechnic, New York, USA
1880
Education - Mining and Metallurgical Engineer, Royal School of Mines, Clausthal on the Hartz, Germany
1880 - 1887
Career position - Chief chemist and metallurgist, new smelting enterprises, Leadville and Pueblo (Colorado Smelting Company), Colorado, USA
1887 - 1894
Career position - Chief chemist and metallurgist, new smelting enterprises, Great Falls (Montana Smelting Company), Montana, USA
1895
Life event - Migrated to Tasmania, to take up position as Chief metallurgist, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd.
1895 - 1897
Career position - Chief Metallurgist, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd., Queenstown, Tasmania
1897 - c. 1922
Career position - General Manager, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd., Queenstown, Tasmania
1901
Career event - Member (MAusIME), Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers
1902
Career event - First successful purely pyritic smelting in the world, Queenstown, Tasmania
1905
Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers
1915 - 1916
Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers
1916 - c. 1922
Career position - General manager, Mount Road and Rosebery Mines Ltd, Tasmania
1919
Career event - Member (MAusIMM), Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
1921 - 1922
Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mining and Metallurgy), Australian National Research Council

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See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_s.html. Details
  • Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'A Burning Desire - Robert Sticht' p.32. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

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