Buzz Collins, State Geologist of Ohio from 1968 to 1988, passed
away on December 19, 2018 in Canton, Ohio. Buzz received degrees in geology
from Ohio and West Virginia Universities, and he served as an Officer and Pilot
in the U.S. Army. He began with the Ohio Survey in 1959 as a Coal Geologist,
and was appointed State Geologist in 1968. His focus was on serving the people
of Ohio, through effective mechanisms such as a Severance Tax to support an aggressive
program of County geologic mapping, and mineral production statistics. In the
mid-1990s, the Ohio laboratory and core repository was named the Collins
Laboratory.
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