James William Bryant died on October 26th, 1987, at the age of 62.
He was the son of James Bryant, of Truro, and studied mining at Camborne from 1893 to 1895. In the latter year he was appointed surveyor and assayer, and later underground agent, at the Killifreth mine in Cornwall, which he left in 1898 to take charge of prospecting in Wales for Messrs. H.R. Merton & Co., of London.
From 1900 to 1901 he was assistant to the superintendent of the Santa Francisca gold mines in Nicaragua, and in 1902 accepted a similar appointment with the Namaqua Copper Co., at Concordia, Cape Colony.
His next appointment was with the Tyee Copper Co., at Vancouver, British Columbia, Where he remained for many years, and was for some four years the mine superintendent.
In 1914 he was resident manager of the Spassky properties of the Spassky Copper Co., in Siberia, and during the War he served as Lieutenant in the 258 Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers.
His post-War work was mainly in Africa, particularly in connexion with the development of the Rhodesian asbestos deposits. A year or two before his death he was manager of Roman Deep gold mine in Carmarthenshire.
Mr. Bryant was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1903.
Vol. 47, Trans I.M.M. 1937-38, pp. 537-8
