Biographical entry Sticht, Robert Carl (1856 - 1922)

Summary

Robert Carl Sticht was general manager of the Queenstown mine of the Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Co. Ltd from 1897-1922. He successfully pioneered pyritic smelting. He was the father of Robert Carl Sticht (Jnr) (1895? - 1958).

Details

Born 8 October 1856. Died 30 April 1922. Educated Brooklyn Polytechnic (BSc) and Royal School of Mines, Clausthal, Germany (metallurgy 1880). Chief chemist and assistant metallurgist at a Colorado smelting company 1880-95, metallurgist, Queenstown mine, Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Co. Ltd 1895-97, general manager 1897-1922. Achieved the first successful purely pyritic smelting in the world in 1902. Commemorated by the mineral stichtite.

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Published resources

Book Sections

• McShane, Ian, 'Sticht, Robert Carl (1856-1922), Metallurgist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 93-94. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120109b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• Robert Carl Sticht, 1856-1922, 2000, http://www.mininghall.com/MiningHallOfFame/HallOfFameDatabase/Inductee.php?InducteeID=1215. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Sticht, Robert Carl', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1201821. Details
• Robert Sticht, 2000, http://www.discover.tased.edu.au/heritage/abtrailway/sticht.htm. Details

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/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P002619. Details