Background
Lakes, Arthur was born on December 21, 1844 in at Martock, Somersetshire, England. Son of Review John and Catherine (Arthur) Lakes.
Lakes, Arthur was born on December 21, 1844 in at Martock, Somersetshire, England. Son of Review John and Catherine (Arthur) Lakes.
Educated at Queen Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and at Queen's College, Oxford, England. Came to the United States, 1862.
Professor geology, Colorado School of Mines, 1882-1894. Engaged as mining engineer since 1894. Western editor Mines and Minerals, 1895-1904.
Made many new discoveries in palaeontology, notably of the atlantosaurus, a huge fossil lizard or dinosaur, the largest land animal ever, to that time, discovered.
Author: Geology of Colorado Coal Fields, 1889. Geology of Colorado and Western Ore Deposits, 1893.
Prospecting for Gold and Silver in North America, 1895. Geology of Cripple Creek Ore Deposits, 1896.
Geology of Western Ore Deposits, 1905.
Contributor to various mining and scientific magazines on economics geology. Home: 1569 Saint Paul Saint, Denver.
Married Edith Slater, of Trinidad, Colorado.