Cecil Alfred Burne died on 23rd September, 1948, at the age of 71.
After four years as an articled pupil at South Hetton Coal Co., Durham, he was appointed surveyor and assistant manager of Langley Park colliery, Durham, in 1897, and in 1899 left for Chile to take up the position of surveyor and assayer to Copiapo Mining Co. at Atacama. In 1903 he joined the Velardena Mining and Smelting Co. at Durango, Mexico, as engineer, and after six months transferred to the post of assistant to the general superintendent of Mexican Coal and Coke Co., Coahuila. From 1905 to 1907 he was employed by the San Carlos Copper Co. of Mexico, and then for two years mined on his own account at San Nicolas, Tamaulipas. He, held the position of superintendent at San Gregorio mine, Sta. Eulalia, Chihuahua, and subsequently of New Sabinas Coal Co., and from 1911 to 1913 was again mining on his own account at San Nicolas.
Mr. Burne went to Portugal in 1913 to take over the managership of Anglo Portuguese Tin Co., at Belmonte, Beira Baixa, and in the following year was appointed manager of Asturiana Mines, Ltd., in Spain. He held this position for eight years and was then occupied on examination work in Portugal and Mexico for ten months before going to Sweden as manager of Lake Copper Proprietary Co.
He returned to Spain and Portugal after two years and was manager and consultant to various mines there until, 1932. From 1932 to 1941 he held the position of manager of San Finx Tin Mines (1933), Ltd., and consultant to Messrs. E.B. Ridsdel & Co., London. He remained in Spain until 1945, when he returned to England.
Mr. Burne was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1925.
Vol. 59, Trans I.M.M. 1949-50, p. ?
