张人鉴系河南省确山县人,1897年生,1917年赴美留学,1921年毕业于美国科罗拉多大学采矿系,获采矿工程师学位,1923年回国。1925～1930年期间在西北工作,曾任过兰州兵工署矿师养成所所长、陕西省政府矿业参事、陕西省建设厅技正等职。在西北5年,张人鉴遍历甘肃、宁夏、青海、新疆、陕西以及内蒙诸省区进行矿产调查,撰写了《甘肃、青海、宁夏矿产调查》、《陕西、绥远、新疆矿产记》、《开发西北采冶计划》、《调查甘肃 Zhang Renxiu Department of Queshan County in Henan Province, born in 1897, 1917 to the United States to study in 1921, graduated from the University of Colorado mining department, mining engineer degree, returned to China in 1923. From 1925 to 1930, he worked in Northwest China. He served as the head of the Institute of Mineral Resources of Lanzhou Arsenal, the mining counselor of Shaanxi Provincial Government, and the technical director of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Construction. In the northwest 5 years, Zhang Renjian traversed the Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia provinces to carry out mineral investigations, wrote “Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia mineral survey”, “Shaanxi, Suiyuan, Xinjiang Minebook”, “ Northwest Mining and Metallurgical Project ”," Survey of Gansu