Reginald John Lemmon died at Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, on 26th January, 19-19, at the age of 70.
He was originally trained as a pharmaceutical chemist but after some years he took a short course in metallurgy at Birkbeck College, London, and in 1911 went to the Gold Coast as chief assayer to Fanti Consolidated Mines, Ltd. In 1912 he joined Abbontiakoon Mines, Ltd., and served in various capacities up to reduction officer until 1919, when he was appointed to the consulting staff of Minerals Separation, Ltd. After working for this company in the Gold Coast and Korea he went to Brazil in 1924 as superintendent metallurgist to South American Gold Areas, Ltd. In 1926-27 he redesigned and operated the Alantana reduction works in Bolivia, and in the following two years was engaged in a similar capacity in Turkey, Russia and the Transvaal. In 1929 he was appointed senior field consulting metallurgist with Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., and travelled in many parts of the world until his retirement in 1940.
Mr. Lemmon then took up war work, first with the Ministry of Economic warfare, then as production manager of a Royal Ordnance Factory, and finally for three years with the Inspectorate of Fighting Vehicles. In 1946 he became reduction superintendent to Marlu Gold Mining Areas, Ltd., and at the time of his death was employed as metallurgist by the Irish Exploration Co., Ltd.
Among his published articles is a contribution to the Transactions of the Institution: ‘The concentration of gold-copper ores by froth flotation at Tul Mi Chung, the Seoul Mining Company, Korea’ (Vol. 33, 1923-24).
Mr. Lemmon was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1913, and was transferred to Associateship in 1919 and to Membership in 1925.
Vol. 59, Trans IMM 1949-50, p.?
[Father of R.A.M. Lemmon]
