Leopold Kessler died in New York on January 3rd, 1944, at the age of 77.
A German by birth, and a naturalized British subject, he entered the Royal Prussian Mining College, Berlin, in 1885, and studied both there and at Freiberg, graduating at the latter in 1889. After working for a year in the mines of the Freiberg and Hartz districts he went to Rhodesia as assayer and surveyor on the Tati Concession, but returned to Europe in 1893 to take up the management of mines in Upper Silesia.
In 1895 he was appointed consulting engineer to Messrs. Stern Bros. of London and certain Berlin interests, and resided principally in Johannesburg until 1908, when he transferred his headquarters to London. He was associated with the Henderson group of mines for many years, and at the time of his death was a director of Tweefontein Colliery, Ltd., and a member of the London Committee of Kenya Consolidated Goldfields, Ltd.
Mr. Kossler, who was author of Valuation Plans of the Witwatersrand Goldfields, was elected a Member of the Institution in 1904.
Vol. 54, Trans IMM 1944-45, p.268
