Arthur Ernest Northey died on 28th October, 1957, at the age of 82.
He studied mining engineering under his father in Wales from 1892 to then worked as assistant manager and later manager of lead, copper, and blende mines in Cardiganshire for nine years, culminating in the position of manager at Esgair Hir and Esgair Fraith mines.
After a year as advisory engineer at Ellen mine, Cornwall, Mr. Northey left for South America in 1905 to take up the position of assistant mine captain at Tolima Mining Co., Ltd., Colombia, working as chief assistant in the underground department of the Frias silver mines for four years. From 1909 to 1914 he managed lead and spar mines in Derbyshire, then left for Spain on his appointment as manager of wolfram and tin mining properties the Province of Zamora. He was also engaged in 1918 investigating, sampling, reporting on the ‘Wagner’ iron-ore fields in the Province of Leon, and on groups of tin and Wolfram properties in north-west Spain. He continued examinations on alluvial tin properties in Portugal in 1919, and advised on development and equipment of tin properties in Zamora, Spain, in the following
Mr. Northey returned to England in 1920 and worked during 1920-21 properties in Central and North Wales, but in the summer of 1921 was appointed resident engineer to Birmingham City Corporation on local authority improvement schemes. He left again for Spain at the end of 1922 to manage Minas Inglesas, a group of copper-ore mines at Cerdido, Por Ferrol, and five years later joined Trust (1927), Ltd., working in Cuba at Minas de Asfalto del Mariel, San Juan Bautista, Pinar del Rio.
He returned to England in 1931, and in 1932 became interested in sand gravel and took over a quarry in Staffordshire. Later the company was incorporated as Shire Oak Gravels, Ltd., of which he was chairman and managing director at the time of his death.
He was elected to Associate Membership of the Institution in 1915 and was an Associate of the Institution of Mining Engineers.
Vol. 68, Trans IMM 1958-59, p.160
