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Barton, who was Caterpillar’s chairman and CEO in from 1999 to 2004, is one of four selected to enter the hall.
During his tenure with Cat, Barton helped pave the way for the company’s dominant position in the mining industry.
Another induction, albeit a posthumous one, was for John Osgood – a coal baron whose influence was felt throughout the Rocky Mountains.
The founder of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company’s empire included 38 mining camps and rolling mills in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico.
Other inductees are porphyry copper deposits authority J David Lowell who helped discover, among other things, Le Escondida in Chile, and Bingham Canyon, Utah discoverer Samuel Newhouse.
