Richard Raymont Came died on August 22nd 1929, from miners’ phthisis, at the age of 52.
After serving a brief term as pupil to Messrs. John Johnson & Sons, assayers and metallurgical chemists, he went to Rhodesia in 1897 as assistant surveyor under Mr. L. Ludlow, assayer to the Standard Bank, Bulawayo, and subsequently assayer to the Selukwe Gold Mining Co.
After active service during the Boer War, he was attached to several Rhodesian gold mines in succession until 1905, when he came to England to study and work on flotation. In the following year he went to the Transvaal and was on several of the Rand Mines until 1917, when he joined H.M. Forces and served with the B.E.F. in France.
After demobilization he returned to the Rand, and finally contracted the disease which caused his death.
Mr. Came was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1919.
Vol. 43, Trans I.M.M. 1933-34, pp. 760-61
