Jocelyn Arthur Hertslet Heppel died in County Durham on May 27th, 1943, at the age of 61.
He was educated at the Mercers’ School, London, and received his technical training at the Camborne School of Mines, obtaining his Diploma in 1906. During the following six years he was employed as mining engineer and manager of manganese mines in the Central Provinces of India. After a year’s prospecting work he left India and in 1914 joined the staff of the Kaduna Syndicate in Nigeria. In 1916 he went to Burma and was engaged in Wolfram mining for a year, later going on to India for six months at the Mysore mine, and from 1918 to 1921 as engineer to a group of mica mines. In 1923 he returned to Nigeria, and was engaged in prospecting both there and in the Gold Coast until his retirement in 1935.
Mr. Heppel was elected a Student of the Institution in 1906, and was transferred to Membership in 1910.
Vol. 53, Trans IMM 1943-4, pp.431-2
[Letter to C.S.M. Magazine 1920? from Burma]
