George Carter died on 2nd July, 1948, at the age of 73.
He received his training at the Mining Schools, Penzance and the Camborne School of Mines from 1891 to 1893, and at the Royal School of Mines in the following year.
He went to South Africa in 1895 on obtaining a position at Robinson Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and joined Roodepoort United Main Reef Gold Mining Co., Ltd., in 1898 as cyanide manager and assayer. He subsequently transferred to Nourse Deep, Ltd., where, from 1899 to 1905, he rose from assistant surveyor to head surveyor. Mr. Carter worked for Nourse Mines, Ltd., until 1910, becoming assistant manager in the last year of his service, and in 1911 was appointed head surveyor to Ferreira Deep, Ltd. Shortly afterwards he joined Transvaal Gold Mining Estates, Ltd., first in the position of resident manager to Vaalhoek mine, and later, from 1912 to 1914, as resident manager of Central mines. He was then made acting general manager to the Company for six months, and from 1915 to 1917 resumed his position with Central mines.
Mr. Carter joined the Royal Engineers in 1917 and until 1919 served as a lieutenant with the 175 Tunnelling Coy. in France.
On demobilization he took up the appointment of manager of the Llanharry iron ore mine, South Wales, for the Glamorgan Hematite Iron Ore Co., Ltd., Cardiff. He retired in 1945 after sixteen years in that position, and went to live in Penzance.
Mr. Carter was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1916.
Vol. 59, Trans I.M.M. 1949-50, p. ?
