Frederick Charles William Ingle died in Cape Town on 9th May, 1955, at the age of 71.
He was born in South Africa, and began his career in 1902 at the head office of General Mining and Finance Corporation in Johannesburg, where he remained for four years. He then began studying in the evening at the South African School of Mines, and secured the Union Government certificates as mine overseer and, in 1915, first class mine manager.
He left office work in January, 1907, to take the position of cyanide shiftsman at Langlaagte Deep, Ltd., and became a sampler in August, 1908. He took a similar post in 1909 at Randfontein North and Randfontein Robinson, and from 1910 to 1911 was a surveyor at Crown Mines. He held the position of shift boss at Randfontein Central for a few months, then worked as head sampler and later shift boss at Ferreira Deep from 1912 to 1917. He was mine captain, then underground manager at City and Suburban, and subsequently, in 1920, became sectional manager at City Deep, Ltd., Western Section. Eighteen months later Mr. Ingle left to work for a short time as organizer for the Underground Official Association, in 1923 taking an appointment in the study department of East Rand Proprietary Mines, Ltd.
He went to Southern Rhodesia in 1925 to manage Trixie gold mine for six months and then did mine contracting for two years at S.A. Chromite Corporation and Copper Queen Co. He was shift boss and mine captain at Shabani mines in 1927-1928. In the period 1929-1931 he managed Peak Asbestos mine, and was manager of Jumbo gold mines during the following three years. He returned to the Transvaal in 1934 to manage Babrosco Mines (Pty.), Ltd., of Strathmore Investments, Ltd., until 1944.
During the period 1927-1944 Mr. Ingle had been consulting engineer to Bar 20 Gold Mines, Ltd., Southern Rhodesia. From 1944 to 1945 he held the appointment of consulting engineer to African Chrysotile Asbestos (Pty.), Ltd., and from 1945 to 1947 was manager of Abenab vanadium mines, South-West Africa. He held the position of general manager to Mallin diamond mines, Transvaal, in 1947, and during 1948 was consulting engineer to a gypsum mine in Namaqualand. He then retired to Johannesburg for three years before moving to Cape Town. From 1952 until his death he was alternate director on the board of Msauli Asbestos Mining and Exploration Co., Ltd.
Mr. Ingle was elected to Associate Membership of the Institution in 1939 and was transferred to Membership in the same year.
Vol. 65, Trans IMM 1955-56, p.208
