Gordon Fraser Dickson died suddenly from a heart attack at his residence at the Vidette mine, Kamloops, British Columbia, on December 9th, 1936, at the age of 71.
The son of a Canadian father, he was born at St. Kilda, Australia, and received his early education in England. He returned to Australia to enter the Ballarat School of Mines, from which he graduated in 1893.
During the next nine years he Worked in Victoria at the Golden Crown, Glen Tana, Union Jack, Lafontaine and Mount Welcome gold mines, and in 1902 began to practise as a consulting engineer. In 1905 he went to Western Australia, and until 1909 managed successively the Great Tower Hill, Hannan’s Proprietary, Bellevue, and Northern mines.
In 1910 he left Australia for Rhodesia to take up an appointment as consulting engineer to the London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Co., Ltd.
In 1916 he went to Canada, and was for two years metallurgical chemist at the Royal Canadian Mint, and for six years general manager of the Temiscaming Mining Co., at Cobalt, Ontario. He then started a consulting practice in British Columbia, and in 1932 became managing director of Vidette Gold Mines, Ltd., a position which he occupied until his death. He was one of the founders of the Ontario Mining Association, and a director of the Mining Association of British Columbia, his published work including papers in the Journal of the Chamber of Mines, Western Australia, and the Mining Magazine.
Mr. Dickson was elected a Member of the Institution in 1913.
Vol. 47, Trans IMM 1937-8, p.542
