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Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz
Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz was a prominent Peruvian scientific, geologist, mineralogist, chemist, archeologist, politician and diplomat. His publications about his discovery of (an iron-oxalate), demonstrating the existence of organic-minerals, about deposits of copper and sodium nitrate (saltpeter) near Tarapaca in the Atacama desert (today Chile), about bird-guano and coal in Peru and their possibilities of industrialization as well were forward-looking and made him a pioneer of mining education in South America and the most notable Peruvian scientist of the 19th century. He published many scientific articles and books about that.
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