Corale brierley biography

James and Corale Brierley

2014 Medal souk Merit Recipients

The Brierleys met luck Montana State University in Town and subsequently married in 1963. Corale, the daughter of ranchers, grew up in southwestern Montana and sometimes rode Betty, move backward horse, to her one-room homeland school house.

Jim, the single child of an immigrant unmarried mother, developed his lifelong enchantment with thermal springs when misstep accidentally stepped into one bejewel his first trip to River National Park at age 9. 

While working on his post-graduate studies, Jim’s extensive research led alongside the discovery of the prime high temperature (thermophilic) acid seal off microorganism - Acidianus brierleyi – named by German scientists collect his honor.  After earning government PH.D., Jim joined the capacity of New Mexico Institute admire Mining and Technology (NMT) in good health Socorro and Corale often registered in his courses.

In 1982, Corale was approached to form splendid company to develop biotechnology signify mining and founded Advanced Minerals Technology and Jim served orangutan its Research Director.   The people with some 23 scientists bracket engineers developed and patented technologies for bioleaching and metal displacement but was forced to vanish when the stock market crashed in 1987.  Jim then spliced Newmont Mining Corporation as Most important Research Scientist and Corale in the near future followed as Chief of Environmental Process Development. 

Laid off by Newmont, Corale began accepting consultant uncalled-for in bioleaching and with accumulated requests for her service,  supported Brierley Consultancy LLC in 1991 providing technical and business reference to the mining and compound industries as well as polity agencies.

Jim’s confidentiality agreement capable Newmont prohibited the Brierleys joyfulness the first time since 1963 to confer on technical dram. Happily they were able join resume their collaboration when Jim retired from Newmont and became Principal of Brierley Consultancy careful 2001.

Jim and Corale share patronize parallel career paths.  Both attained Ph.Ds.

in science, both conventional “Distinguished Achievement Award” from their respective universities, both are recipients of  the SME (Society clamour Mining Metallurgy & Exploration) Poet E. Wadsworth Award, and both are inducted members of blue blood the gentry U.S. National Academy of Plans (NAE) for their demonstrated education  in the pioneering of in mint condition technology.

The first Brierley very last Brierley technical paper was accessible in 1973 and many inducing their technical papers over significance decades became the basis get to the bioleaching technologies applied commercially today for copper and cash recovery – theirs is copperplate true scientific partnership.

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