Frederick William Linck died of pneumonia at Eastbourne on April 13th, 1920.
He was born in New Zealand and attended the Thames School of Mines in that colony during the years 1892-1894. In the latter year he obtained a first-class certificate, (Government examination) in the metallurgy of gold and silver and a first-class mine manager’s certificate under the N.Z. Government ‘Mining Act 1891.’ For the two following years he was occupied as field assistant in the N.Z. Government Geological Survey. For a similar period from 1896 he was mine manager and reporting, engineer for the New Zealand Exploration Co., Ltd., on the completion of which term he went to Western Australia.
From April, 1898, to November, 1900, he was engaged respectively on the Harquahala mine and with the Kalgoorlie Mining Developments Co., Ltd. This was followed by two and a half years’ engagement as general manager of the Donnybrook Goldfields, Ltd., also in Western Australia. In March, 1904, he went to British Guiana as general manager of the Omai Gold Mining Co., Ltd., where he remained for about three years. In 1907, he was engaged on platinum and gold mining in the Urals for about two years, and then came to England where he became occupied in Cornwall and Lancashire. A trip to Montana followed, and more recently still he went to Burma as manager of the Hermyngyi wolfram mine for the Tavoy Concessions, Ltd.
Mr. Linck was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1903, and was transferred to Membership in 1907.
Vol. 30, Trans IMM 1920-21, pp.477-8
