Brusnitsyn, Lev

Brusnitsyn, Lev Ivanovich

 

Born 1786 or 1784; died 1857. Russian miner. Son of a factory worker.

In 1795, Brusnitsyn began to work at the Ekaterinburg gold mines as a washer and then as a mining master. In 1814, Brusnitsyn discovered the first stream gold deposits in the Urals where the Berezovka and Pyshma rivers meet. He developed the technology for extracting stream gold.

WORKS

“Povod k otkrytiiu pervoi zolotopeschanoi rossypi na Urale.” Gornyi zhurnal, 1864, no. 5.

REFERENCE

Kozlov, A. G. Tvortsy tekhniki na Urale. Sverdlovsk, 1954.