Mark Chance Bandy

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Mark Chance Bandy (born July 22, 1900 in Redfield (Iowa) - † June 3, 1963 ) was an American mining engineer, geologist , mineralogist and mineral collector.

Bandy went to Drake University in Des Moines after high school , where he partially financed his studies as a salesman and made his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1922. He then went to Columbia University , where he made his master's degree in geology in 1925 and his master's degree in mining engineering in 1926. In 1938 he received his doctorate in mineralogy from Harvard University . He worked as a mining engineer in South America, but also in Europe, Africa and the USA, for example in Venezuela for Bethlehem Steel, for Patino Mines in Llallagua in Bolivia (he was their chief geologist and published about the mineral deposits there), in Chile for the Chile Exploration Company, for Rhodesia Copper Ventures in Rhodesia and in Utah for the Utex Exploration Company. He also traded in minerals, collected for the Smithsonian Institution (US National Museum in Washington DC) and Harvard University (Harvard Mineralogical Museum) and built up an important collection himself, which he presented in his own building after he moved to Wickenberg in 1958 ( Arizona) retired. In 1963 he died of a tropical disease that he caught in Ghana. His collection went mainly to the Los Angeles County Museum, partly also to the Iowa Mineral Society, which they exhibited at Drake University. He was at times lecturer in geochemistry at St. Andrews University .

He published, among other things, on the geology of Easter Island , the formation of magnetic iron stone and deposits and mineral provinces in South America.

Bandy had been married to Jean Arney since 1929, who accompanied him on his mineralogical excursions around the world. The mineral jeanbandyite is named after her. Bandy and his wife translated De natura fossilium (1546) by Georg Agricola from Latin into English.

Honors and memberships

He was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland .

The mineral bandylite , which he found in Chile in 1935, is named after him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mineralogy of Llallagua , La Paz 1944
  2. ↑ He also brokered the acquisition of the Friedrich Ahlfeld Collection of Minerals from Bolivia for Harvard and the Smithsonian and the Friedrich Kegel Collection of Minerals from Tsumeb in South West Africa for the Smithsonian
  3. ↑ Geology and petrology of Easter Island, Bull. Geolog. Soc. America, Vol. 48, 1937, pp. 1589-1610
  4. ↑ John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols: Jeanbandyite , in: Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 67.3 kB )
  5. ^ Geological Society of America Special Publications No. 63, 1955
  6. ↑ John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols: Bandylite , in: Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 68.4 kB )
personal data
SURNAME Bandy, Mark Chance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Redfield, Iowa
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1963