Hugh McPhee died on his ranch at Hectorspruit, Eastern Transvaal, on June 8th, 1923.
Practically the whole of his professional career was spent in South Africa except for a brief period when he came home to study assaying, etc., at the Andersonian Institute, Glasgow. For a number of years he was with Mr. Leopold Herz, of Kimberley, taking up mining properties for development and flotation. In 1886 he was appointed manager of the Clutha Gold Mines, Barberton, and he was associated with that particular property for upwards of thirty years. At various times during that period he was mining engineer to the Albion Gold Mines, Ltd., and in charge of the mining properties in the Belingwe district of Matabeleland belonging to the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, Ltd., besides undertaking prospecting and exploratory work for himself and others in the Transvaal and Matabeleland. In 1918 he had charge of the Asp Mine in Southern Rhodesia, and in 1920 he retired to the Eastern Transvaal.
Mr. McPhee was elected a Member of the Institution in 1898.
Vol. 33, Trans IMM 1923-24, p.535
