John George Bottoms died at his home at Hampstead on November 5th, 1938, following a heart attack which was accentuated by acute malaria. He was 61 years of age.
He began his career in mining when he became under foreman to the Royal Standard Gold Mining Co., in Victoria, when he was 21, and a few months later he was appointed to a similar position with the Girilambone Copper Co. of N.S.W. In 1899 he was underground manager of the Lloyd Copper Co., also in N.S.W., and he was engaged for short periods by two gold mining companies in Victoria before he left Australia to become manager of the Abosso Gold Mining Co. in West Africa. Later he was appointed manager of the Tarquah Mining and Exploration Co., and was also on the Rayfield and Nigerian Consolidated Properties in Nigeria. He visited Portugal, East Africa, Canada, and the U.S.A., returning to West Africa, to the Ashanti-Adowsena mine, in 1936.
For about a year before his death was mine manager for the Van Emden (Dutch Guiana) Gold Mines, Ltd., and he died when on leave from Dutch Guiana.
In 1902 Mr. Bottoms obtained the Mine Managers Certificate of New South Wales, and he was elected a Member of the Institution in 1909.
Vol. 48, Trans I.M.M. 1938-39, p. 826
