Amor Frederick Keene died in New York in November, 1940, at the age of 60.
He received the degree of E.M. from the University of Minnesota, and for more than two years after leaving the University he was engaged first on the Goldfields of Eastern Oregon and afterwards as superintendent of construction at Cerro do Pasco.
In 1907 he began a series of engagements in mine examination and management, with the Peruvian Mining, Smelting and Refining Co., and the Black Mountain Mining Co. of Sonora, Mexico, and for A.H. Rogers and A. Chester Beatty. In 1911, he was appointed consulting engineer for the International Russian Corporation, Ltd., and represented Mr. Beatty in London. In 1913 he was consulting engineer for the Consolidated Mines Selection Co., with which A. Chester Beatty and Herbert C. Hoover were associated. Later, he was connected with East African Goldfields, but in 1918 he returned to the United States and started consulting practice with New York as his headquarters.
Mr. Keene, who changed his surname in 1918 from Kuehn, was elected a Member of the Institution in 1914.
Vol. 50, Trans IMM 1940-41, p.548
