Richard Malone Geppert died suddenly from heart failure at his residence, Wellington, Surrey, on December 11th, 1933, at the age of 57.
He was born at Carlstad, New Jersey, U.S.A., and from 1894 to 1898 was a student at the School of Mines, Columbia University, New York, where he graduated with the degree of E.M.
The first ten years of his professional career were spent exclusively in the United States, in Colorado, Nevada, California and Arizona, but in 1909 he went for about two years to Siberia to superintend diamond drilling operations for the Atbasar Copper Fields, Ltd.
In 1911 he joined Mr. H.A. Titcomb in practice in London as consulting engineers, and during that partnership, which lasted about eight years, he made many professional trips to Siberia, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Greenland, and the Continent of Europe. The firm were also consulting engineers to Esperanza, Ltd. (El Oro, Mexico). Later Mr. Geppert became associated once more with his old class-mate and former chief, Mr. A. Chester Beatty, in London, and was engaged for some years on professional work for Selection Trust, Ltd., and the associated companies, in the Northern Rhodesia copper fields, various diamond properties in Africa, and in Australia.
Mr. Geppert was elected a Member of the Institution in 1914.
Vol. 43, Trans IMM 1933-34, pp.762-3
