H. Wolvekamp was a Dutch mining engineer who, with Jansen and Lindberg, conducted the 1922 mineralogical survey of Atjeh whose joint report is the principal source for the colonial-era mineral geography of the residency. The three engineers are uniformly cited together in the standard form “JANSEN, LINDBERG and WOLVEKAMP, 1922”, which suggests a single field-party under the authority of the Netherlands Indies Geological Survey or the Bureau of Mines in Indonesia.
The 1922 Atjeh survey
The contributions of the Jansen–Lindberg–Wolvekamp party, as recoverable from the citations in Van Bemmelen’s *Geology of Indonesia* (1949), cover the full range of Atjeh mineral occurrences: the primary gold of the S. Assai and S. Meranging quartz-veins; the iron-ore localities of Kr. Geuenteuet, Gle Mon Ampeuet, Kr. Ligan (Babah Loh), Kr. Rigaih, Alu Talu, Kwala Boe and Tjot Plaj, A. Pentuwa Gade and Kuto Buloh; the copper occurrences of Pulu Bras, Gle Broë, Aer Talu, Beutong, Aloe Baru, Aer Si Hajo, Muara Sipongi; and the lead-zinc assays at Krueng Heureueng and Krueng Isep. For a fuller account see the entry on P. J. J. Jansen.
Significance
Wolvekamp’s significance for the encyclopedia of Acheh history is co-extensive with that of the Jansen–Lindberg–Wolvekamp report as a whole. He is one of the three Dutch engineers whose 1922 field-work supplied the baseline mineralogical description of Atjeh on which all later colonial and post-colonial work has depended.
See Also
- Acheh
- B. B. Lindberg
- Copper in Atjeh
- Gold and silver in Atjeh
- Iron ores in Atjeh
- Krueng Heureueng
- Krueng Isep
- Kr. Geuenteuet
- P. J. J. Jansen
- S. Assai
- Van Bemmelen’s The Geology of Indonesia (1949)
- 1922
Source
The Geology of Indonesia, by R. W. van Bemmelen, Vol. II: Economic Geology (The Hague: Government Printing Office; Martinus Nijhoff, 1949), pp. 121–122, 147, 161–163, 205–211. The report itself cited as: “P. J. J. JANSEN, B. B. LINDBERG and H. WOLVEKAMP. 1922”.