Clement Dixon died in Cyprus on May 4th, 1924.
After three years’ technical training he was, in 1893, appointed to the metallurgical staff of the Rand Central Ore Reduction Co., Johannesburg, under Mr. Charles Butters, and he subsequently had positions on the New Kleinfontein and Village Main Reef mines.
In 1896 he went to New Zealand on behalf of a Johannesburg syndicate, and on completion of the work, he accepted an appointment as battery superintendent and metallurgist to the Waihi Silverton Gold Mines, Ltd. In 1900 he went to the South island, and was engaged for some time in hydraulic mining and gold dredging on the Central Otago Goldfields, and as metallurgist to the O.P.Q. Waipori Gold mines. Whilst in New Zealand he was elected to a seat on the Council of the Waihi School of Mines.
Returning to South Africa in 1903, he was engaged on Rand mines until 1906, when he went to Rhodesia at the instance of Messrs. Farrar Brothers, with whom he was associated for about 16 years. Some two years previous to his death, after a brief stay in England, he accepted the position of manager and engineer for the Cyprus Asbestos Co., Ltd.
Mr. Dixon was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1898, and was transferred to Membership in 1904.
Vol. 34, Trans IMM 1924-25, pp.565-66
