Ted A Hadley
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Ted Hadley is a lifelong mineral collector and amateur mineralogist beginning at an early age (preteens). He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1983 with a BS in Electronics Engineering and moved to Silicon Valley to pursue his career. He continued his mineral collecting hobby with others such as Gail Dunning, Fen Cooper, and John Magnasco. He retired from Hewlett Packard in 2012.


Mr. Hadley has been honored with the mineral “tedhadleyite”, a mercury oxyhalide from the Clear Creek Claim, San Benito Co., CA.

Papers by Ted Hadley
Anomalous Radioactivity at the Wanderer Mine, Halloran Springs area, San Bernardino Co., CA - Examination of radioactivity at an abandoned silver mine
Copper Mineralization in the New Idria Serpentine Body, San Benito Co., California - Native copper in Clear Creek with other related minerals. By Hadley and Yao
Primary Borate Mineralogy of the Huntington Lake Region, Kaiser Wilderness, Fresno County, California - Chestermanite and associated minerals from the Twin Lakes region. By Ted A. Hadley and Daniel J. Evanich