Blake, Wilson

Blake graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A. in geology in 1957, and after military service, he returned to Berkeley to earn an M.Sc. in engineering science in 1962. He joined the Denver Mining Research Center of the United States Bureau of Mines in 1965, while he worked toward his Ph.D. in mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. After receiving his doctorate in 1971, he became Director of Mining Research for GECAMINES in Lubumbashi, Zaire, in 1972, and has been an international mining and geotechnical consultant since 1975.