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... O'NEIL DONALD W GENTRY, a leading international figure in mining engineering education and minerals development, died on July 2, 2012, after a lingering illness.
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... His important research on rock mass response to longwall coal mining in steeply dipping strata helped to propel his career and he advanced rapidly to the rank of professor in 1979. From 1983 to 1990 he was dean of engineering and undergraduate studies at Mines, followed by five years as head of the Department of Mining Engineering.
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... D O N A L D W G E N T RY 101 president of SME in 1993 and of AIME in 1996.

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