George Gough Dixon died on February 11th, 1911, aged 50, from blackwater fever.
He began his career at the Ashford works of the South Eastern Railway, and was afterwards articled to a civil engineer in Bristol.
His energies were thence transferred to mining, and from 1884 to 1891 he held posts as assistant manager on various gold and silver mines in the Republic of Colombia. From 1892 to 1894 he was in charge of a prospecting expedition in British Guiana. For two years subsequently, he was working in England, in connection with the Foreign and Colonial Offices, on the British Guiana and Venezuela boundary question.
In 1896 he was appointed manager of the Inkermann Gold Mines, Reefton, New Zealand, a post he held for four years, and from 1902 to 1905 he was engaged in reporting to the Colonial Office on the gold occurrences, mining laws, and plumbago mines of Ceylon. From 1906 to 1909 he was working on Madagascar gold fields, and subsequently took the management of a prospecting expedition in Liberia, West Africa, for the Liberian Development Co.
Mr. Dixon was elected a Member of the Institution in 1910.
Vol. 21, Trans IMM 1911-12, p.723
