Donald Dickey was part of the family that owned and operated Oriental Mine beginning in 1939. He was born in Pasadena, California in 1924 and attended school in both Europe and California. He enlisted in the navy after graduating but went on to continue his schooling at the Mackay School of Mines in the late 1940s. His first job in the mines was with his mother in the Oriental Mine and he remained in the family business until the mine was sold in the early 90s. In this interview, Dickey discusses his family background, Simon Jones Murphy, Sr., and Jr., and the Pacific Lumber Co., his father's job as an ornithologist, education at Thacher School, becoming a pilot at sixteen, service in the navy, mining education, UC Berkeley, early history of the Oriental Mine, 1850 to 1939, Chinese and Hawaiian miners, Croesus Mining Co., the mine after 1939, mine workers and hiring practices, feeding, housing and medical care, issues of highgrading, shipping doré bars, security, safety, specimen gold, geological research, environmental protection and waste disposal, electrolytic refining, Penobscot Iron Ore Co., taconite mining and trying to sell the Oriental Mine.