HOPKINS
,
EVAN
(
[1801]?
-
1888
),
geologist
;
b. in
Swansea
. He spent his youth in the ironworks at
Penydarren
,
Dowlais
and
Rhymney
. In
1833
he went to
South America
to
oversee gold and silver mines
; he returned there later to research in the
Andes
and
Panama
; in
1852
he was in
Australia
as an
advisor to a gold mining company
. He was an
expert on magnetic ores
.
Bibliography:
-
T. lorwerth Jones
in
The Transactions of the Honourable Society
of Cymmrodorion
, 1932-3 (which includes a list of his papers).
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
