Henry Douglas Gardenner died on October 1st, 1946, at the age of 51.
He received his training at the Camborne School of Mines from 1911 to 1914, gaining a first class Diploma, and immediately on the outbreak of war joined the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and served as a private in India and Aden, later rejoining the regiment in November, 1917, as a lieutenant in Palestine and Egypt.
On demobilization in 1919 he took up the position of surveyor and sampler at the mines of the Duchy of Cornwall, and a year later became sampler to East Pool Mine, Ltd. In March, 1921, he joined the staff of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ltd., and worked for nearly five years on the Gold Coast in various capacities. On returning to England at the end of 1925 he acted as sampler at the Porkellis mine, Cornwall, and then resumed work in West Africa in March, 1926, as prospecting and plant engineer for Consolidated African Selection Trust, Ltd. He spent a year in 1931-32 in Cornwall in charge of the Survey Department of the Cornwall Electric Power Co., and then rejoined Ashanti Goldfields Corporation as prospecting engineer in 1932 for two years. From February to November, 1936, he was manager of Obuom Gold Mines, Ltd., but, when operations ceased, was transferred to Ashanti and Gold Coast Mining Corporation, Ltd., where he was in charge of prospecting for a few months. He was later engaged in the examination of gold properties on the Gold Coast for a private syndicate and from 1940 to 1943 held the position of general manager of West African Diamond Syndicate, Ltd.
He was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1935.
Vol. 56, Trans IMM 1946-47, p.618
