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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002619b.htm person Sticht Robert Carl AACR2 8 October 1856 30 April 1922 Place of Birth Hoboken, New Jersey, United States of America Place of Death Launceston, Tasmania, Australia Metallurgist Mining engineer 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.

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.

1875 1875 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Brooklyn Polytechnic, New York, USA 1880 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 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 1901 Career event - Member (MAusIME), Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers 1902 1902 Career event - First successful purely pyritic smelting in the world, Queenstown, Tasmania 1905 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 1919 Career event - Member (MAusIMM), Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1921 1922 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mining and Metallurgy), Australian National Research Council Sticht, Robert Carl (Jnr) (1895? - 1958) Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Ltd (1893 - 1960s)

General Manager 1897 - c1922; Chief Metallurgist 1895 - 1897.

 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1893 - )

President 1905, 1915 - 1916.

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Foundation Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1921 - 1922

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 Sticht, Robert Carl (1856-1922)

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 'Sticht, Robert Carl', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sticht, Robert Carl Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Engineering Heritage : Biographies Engineering Heritage : Biographies Engineering Heritage Australia 2024 Engineering Heritage Australia : wiki website Edited Book: Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders Engineers Australia Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders Barton, A.C.T. Institution of Engineers, Australia 2019 Book Section: Sticht, Robert Carl (1856-1922), metallurgist McShane, Ian Sticht, Robert Carl (1856-1922), metallurgist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1990 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z John Ritchie 93-94 Resource: Robert Carl Sticht, 1856-1922 Australian Prospectors & Miners' Hall of Fame Robert Carl Sticht, 1856-1922 2013 Resource: Robert Sticht State Library of Tasmania Robert Sticht 2000 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000