Herbert Norman Hammet died in the Federated Malay State in 1922, aged 35 years.
He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and in 1903 he started a two yours’ course in assaying and metallurgy with Messrs. Jacques Fisher & Co. Ltd., of Melbourne, and was afterwards employed by that firm as assayer and to take charge of chlorination and cyanide plants for about four years. Early in 1909 he went to Tasmania to gain underground experience at Mt. Lyell, and subsequently held positions as metallurgist, in Western Australia and Victoria.
In 1913 he transferred his activities to the Federated Malay States, where he was successively mining assistant at the Salak South Tin Mining Co., Kuala Lumpur, manager of the Sungei Pari tin mine and the Kuling zin mines. In 1919 he was appointed mining engineer to Messrs. Aylesbury & Nutter, Ltd., and manager of the Slim Concessions, Ltd., which position he still held at the date of his death.
Mr. Hammet was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1921.
Vol. 34, Trans IMM 1924-25, p.568
