Arthur Henry Massingberd Brown died in the autumn of 1919 at Owen Sound, Georgian Bay, Ont., Canada, at the age of 50 years.
He was Canadian-born, at London, Ont., where he received his private school education, with special study of chemistry under his father’s direction, and then attended lectures in arts at the Western University for two years. With an interval spent in gaining experience in prospecting and assaying, he then attended the Prospectors’ Course, 1898-9, at the School of Mining, Kingston, Ont.
After completing the course, he was employed from March, 1899, to April, 1903, by the Canadian Gold Fields Syndicate at Deloro, Ont., as assayer and assistant chemist, and for some months before the closing down of the mine he was metallurgist in charge. From June to November, 1903, he was with the Atlas Arsenic Co. at Deloro, where he installed a small cyanide annexe to the stamp mill for the purpose of treating arsenical concentrates.
From November, 1903, to November, 1905, he was metallurgist in charge of a 40-stamp mill and cyanide annexe for the Daly Reduction Co., at Hedley, B.C., where also arsenical gold ore was treated. From January, 1906, to November, 1909, he was engaged in reporting on mining claims, prospecting and consulting metallurgical Work in Northern Ontario, in British Columbia and in Idaho, U.S.A., the greater part of the time being spent in the Cobalt silver area. For about a year after the last given date, Mr. Brown was metallurgist for the Canadian Exploration Co., at Naughton, Ont., then manager of the Pike Lake Mines, Swastika, and in November, 1911, he was appointed manager of the Hudson Bay Mines, Ltd., at Cobalt. In July, 1914, he took over the management of the Dome Lake Mining and Milling Co., South Porcupine, and three years later occupied a similar post at the Green Meehan Mine. In 1919, he became connected with the Department of Lands, Forests and Mines, and at his death he was Government Inspector of Mines.
Mr. Brown was elected a Member of the Institution in 1916.
Vol. 30, Trans I.M.M. 1920-21, pp. 469-70
