Who was DeLaMare?

Grover Whitby "Dee" DeLaMare, who died in September 1989, was a 1938 graduate in mining engineering of the Mackay School of Mines.

During his 60's, Mr. DeLaMare found that he enjoyed exploration geology even more than he did mining engineering, and subsequently made several important discoveries, among them the Preble ore body on the Getchell Trend in 1972 and, in 1981, the Dee Gold Deposit, one of the twelve major ore bodies in the Carlin Trend near Battle Mountain in north-central Nevada. A fascinating biography about Dee was recently completed by his daughters. A portrait of Dee was painted by artist Lilli Umbach Brant and will hang in the DeLaMare Library.

The DeLaMare Library is named after Dee DeLaMare, as was the Dee Mine, by John Livermore.