Malcolm Dillingham Caldwell died in a London nursing home as the result of an operation, on June 23rd, 1935, at the age of 57.
From 1895 to 1905 he was engaged in practical mining work in Australia, occupying almost every position from trucker to manager of a mine, and he then went to West Africa, where he was successively manager of properties belonging to the London Ashanti Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and the Ashanti Quartzite Mining Co., Ltd. In 1912, he went to Cuba, to act as engineer to the President of the Republic and as engineer and manager of copper and gold mines.
From 1916 to 1919 he was in H.M. Forces, serving with tunnelling Companies, and, after disbandment, as officer in charge of plant registration. In 1919 he returned to Africa as manager of the British East Africa Exploration Syndicate, Ltd., for one year, then proceeded on a prospecting trip in Kenya Colony, where he claimed to have discovered the first payable gold. He was subsequently manager of various mines in Kenya and Tanganyika and in 1925 was appointed manager of Tanganyika Goldfields, Ltd. At the date of his death he was general manager of the Lupa Exploration Syndicate, Ltd., Tanganyika Territory.
Mr. Caldwell was elected an Association of the Institution in 1912.
Vol. 45, Trans I.M.M. 1935-36, p. 510
