Mineral exploration inventor Tony Barringer dies at 83

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Few individuals can rival the impact Tony Barringer made on mineral exploration technology, in the illustrious 50 years he spent pursuing scientific discovery and invention in the industry. A. R. (Tony) Barringer passed away on Aug. 15, in Golden, Colo. He was 83. He will be remembered for his innovation regarding the measurement of physical aspects of the Earth that few had conceived of before. Born in England in 1925, he received B.Sc. and PhD degrees in economic geology (1954) at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London. Barringer's education was interrupted, however, by the Second World War, and he became an officer and served in the Middle East. For his formal education, he chose geology, which he attributed to the early influences of a neighbour who was an avid amateur geologist and his father, who had worked as a mining engineer in Canada.