Alan Mara Bateman (6 January 1889 – 11 May 1971)[1] was an economic geologist who worked on mining in North America and a professor at Yale University who also served as a long-standing editor of the journal Economic Geology.
He received a PhD from Yale in 1913 with a thesis on geology and ore deposits of the Bridge River district, British Columbia.
[5] Bateman wrote a textbook Economic Mineral Deposits first published in 1942, with a second edition in 1950 which was translated into several languages and a third in 1981.
[2] During this time, Bateman worked in Rhodesia, Morocco, Tunisia, apartheid-era South Africa,[6] the Belgian Congo, Spain, and Kenya.
[7] In 1949 at an event in San Francisco, Bateman commented that United States foreign policy necessitated attention to the supply and security of mineral wealth; Bateman remarked that "I think we have to face clearly the fact that we are approaching a crisis in our mineral situation," and added that "it is inevitable that more and more the United States will have to depend upon foreign sources and minerals.