Frederick Armidale Marriott died of influenza in Rhodesia towards the close of 1918, at the age of 38 years.
He was an Australian by birth and he began his professional career in 1899, with six months’ experience underground followed by three months’ in the 40-head mill and concentrating plant of the Sunlight Gold Mining Co., Hillgrove, N.S.W. In 1900 he entered on a three years’ course at the Ballarat School of Mines, where he obtained the Diploma and Associateship in mining engineering, and at the completion of his course he spent four months in the engineering laboratory of the School conducting experimental work and obtaining instruction in fitting and turning.
During May and June, 1903, he was engaged for five weeks as a labourer in the mill of the Broken Hill Proprietary silver-lead mine, after which he was for about ten months employed as draughtsman and assistant mine and land surveyor with the Wallaroo & Moonta Mining & Smelting Co. For the next two and a-half years he worked at the Cosmopolitan Proprietary, Ltd., as a labourer in the 50-head mill and cyanide plant, as assayer and as metallurgist, respectively. In November, 1906, he was employed as metallurgist at the Lake View Consols plant, which was followed by similar work on the Lancefield, South Kalgurli and Mountain Queen properties under the same general management.
In 1913, he went to Rhodesia to Willoughby’s Consolidated, and in the following year he was transferred to the Cam & Motor Gold Mining Co., at Eiffel Flats. Early in 1916 he joined the staff of the Golden Konke Mine at Lomagundi.
Mr. Marriott was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1913.
Vol. 29, Trans IMM 1919-20, pp.431-32.
