Roscoe Randall Knuckey died at a London nursing home on January 26th, 1944, at the age of 62.
He was an Australian by birth and received his technical training at the Adelaide and Broken Hill Schools of Mining from 1900 to 1903. In the latter year he was appointed mill shift boss at Broken Hill, and three years later joined the staff of Amalgamated Zinc (De Bavay), Ltd., where he remained until 1917 and worked successively as shift metallurgist, assistant in charge of flotation operations, and acting chief metallurgist. From 1917 to 1919 he was on service with the Australian Imperial Forces in France, and on demobilization he joined the staff of Burma Corporation, Ltd., as assistant mill superintendent. In 1924 he was promoted to mill superintendent, a position which he held until 1932. During this period the plant was doubled in capacity and was brought to a state of high efficiency.
Mr. Knuckey then resigned and returned to London, where he set up in practice as a consulting metallurgist. His work took him to many parts of the world, and at various times he inspected metallurgical works in China and Turkey (for the Governments of those countries), Burma, Italy and Yugoslavia. He did much work in Cornwall, and in recent years was closely associated with the British Metal Corporation, Ltd., and Messrs. Huntington, Heberlein & Co., Ltd., in connection with the sink-and-float process. Shortly before his death he returned to England from an extensive visit to Canada, the U.S.A., and South America.
Mr. Knuckey was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1924, and was transferred to Membership in 1934.
Vol. 54, Trans IMM 1944-45, p.269
