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Richard G. Hartley

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'''Richard Gordon Hartley''' was an [[Australian]] civil engineer and mining and engineering industry historian.

He was born in the United Kingdom, on 30 June 1939, and died in [[Perth, Western Australia]] in 2016. <ref>https://ift.tt/2QuO5fY Encyclopedia of Australian Science entry for Richard Hartley</ref><ref> Young, Don, 'Vale Richard Gordon Hartley, 30th June 1939 - 5th May 2016', Engineering Heritage Australia Magazine, vol. 2, no. 3, 2016, pp. 18-9. </ref>
He attained an honours degree from [[Murdoch University]] in 1992 focusing upon gold mining in the early twentieth century Goldfields of Western Australia. <ref></ref>. In 1998, he completed his PhD at the same university looking at the changes in technology in more detail. <ref></ref>

His work on the [[Goldfields Water Supply Scheme]], published in 2007, has been the most thorough work on the scheme, that coincided with the centenary of the scheme. It involved extensive archival research, and extensive interviews. <ref></ref><ref></ref>

== Mining heritage membership and awards ==
*1992 - 2009 Member, Engineering Heritage Panel, Western Australian Branch, [[Engineers Australia]]
*1995 Founding Member, Australasian Mining History Association
*2009 John Monash Medal, [[Engineers_Australia#Engineering_Heritage_Recognition_Program|Engineering Heritage Australia]]
*2011 [[Telford_Medal|Telford Premium Prize]], Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom

== selected works ==
* Cumming, Denis A. and Hartley, Richard G., Westralian founders of twentieth century mining: career biographies of mining engineers, mine managers and metallurgists who worked in the Western Australian mining industry 1890-1920, Richard G. Hartley, Rossmoyne W.A., 2014.
* Hartley, Richard G., River of steel: a history of Western Australian goldfields and agricultural water supply, 1903 - 2003, Access Press, Bassendean, W.A., 2007.
* Hartley, Richard G., 'Fernie, Norman (1898-1977) Engineer', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 155-156. Also available at https://ift.tt/2DVFo7M. Details
* Hartley, Richard G., 'A history of technological change in Kalgoorlie gold metallurgy between 1895 and 1915', PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1998, 2 v.


== References ==







[[Category:1939 births]]
[[Category:2016 deaths]]
[[Category:Goldfields Water Supply Scheme]]
[[Category:Australian engineers]]
[[Category:Australian historians]]


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