Arthur Leo Chambers died at Johannesburg, Transvaal, on December 22nd, 1934, at the age of 66.
From 1885 to 1889 he was an apprentice with the firm of Davey, Paxman & Co., of Colchester, and after gaining experience in assaying, amalgamating and general mill work at the Morgan gold mine in Wales, he went to South Africa to join the staff of the Sheba Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and was employed for three years in erecting and working various types of ore reduction and mining machinery and for a further three years was engineer in charge. In 1895 he was appointed general manager of the Royal Sheba Gold Mining Co. and three years later he became manager of the Austen (Gwelo) Development Syndicate in Rhodesia.
From 1905 to 1908 he was manager of the Messina copper mine, and subsequently was employed as manager of the Subeni copper mine in Zululand, for some years. Later he began to practise as a consulting mining engineer in Johannesburg.
Mr. Chambers was elected a member of the Institution in 1910.
Vol. 45, Trans I.M.M. 1935-36, p. 511
