Richard Austin Cooper, South African chemist (1889 – 31 March 1972)
Described mineral modderite (1924)
Developed the chlorine process for extraction of platinum metals (1929)
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
With F.W. Watson. The development of the chlorine process of extraction of platinum metals from ores (1929)
A new platinum mineral in the Rustenburg norites. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 28:281-3, 1928
Platinum specimens from Onverwacht mine. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 26:228-30, 1926
Modderit. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 24:265, 1924
Mineral constituents of Rand conglomerates. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 24:90-3, 1924
Mineral constituents of the Rand banket. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 23:90-5, 1923
With W.F. Watson. The acidity of mine waters. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 22, 1921
Notes on the use of potassium permanganate as cyanide in sand-filling solutions (1914)
On determination of platinum metals in ores and concentrates
On manufacture of pig iron in Natal
Notes on manipulation of osmiridium concentrate
HONORS
Cooperite Wartenweiller 1928 (Mineral)