William Albert Quince died at Ariston Gold Mine, West Africa, in May, 1930, at the age of 42. He, with two other employees of the mine, was fatally gassed in an heroic attempt to reach the chief surveyor of the mine, who had been overcome, and unfortunately, though the surveyor was afterwards saved, his three would-be rescuers lost their lives.
Mr. Quince was a student of the Royal School of Mines, graduating as A.R.S.M., if 1909, and on leaving the school he was selected to go to South Africa under the terms of the I.M.M. Post-graduate course. His professional career was spent almost exclusively in South Africa, at the Ginsberg, Simmer East, Jupiter, Simmer and Jack, and Sub-Nigel mines, and his activities extended beyond the scope of actual mining to the provision of water and electricity schemes and improvements in the social conditions of the employees of mines with which he was connected. He went to West Africa April, 1930, to report on projects in the neighbourhood of Ariston mine, having recently retired from mine management to take up consulting work.
Mr. Quince was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1909, and was transferred to Associateship in 1923.
Vol. 40, Trans I.M.M., 1930-31, p.454
