Geoffrey Firmstone Heath died on April 12th, 1913, at Forbes Reef, Swailand, after a short illness, aged 33 years.
He became a student at the Royal School of Mines in 1898, and graduated as A.R.S.M. in 1901. In the same year he went to the Chuquitambo Mine in Peru as assayer and surveyor, and remained there until
- In 1904 and 1905 he was engaged in research work at the Royal School of Mines, and acted as assistant in the surveying department.
In 1906 he went to the Porkura Gold Mines, Transylvania, whence in 1907 he went to Argentina, where for six months he was chief assistant to Mr. E.G. Lascelles, at the St. Julia Gold Mine, Neuquen. Towards the end of 1907 he was appointed assayer and surveyor to the South American Mines and Minerals, Ltd., at Lavras, Brazil, and from 1909 to 1911 was engaged in the same locality with the Brazilian Goldfields, Ltd. In 1911 he went on a visit of inspection to the Caucasus and to Georgia, and towards the end of that year was appointed engineer to the Swazieland Corporation, Ltd., at Forbes Reef, and it was there that his death occurred some eighteen months later.
He contributed a paper to the Transactions of the Institution on ‘The Water Race for the Chuquitambo Gold Mines, Peru,’ which was discussed at a meeting held on December 20th, 1906.
Mr. Heath was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1902, and was transferred to Associateship in 1908.
Vol. 22, Trans IMM 1912-13, p.719
