Dennis Renouf died in Jersey, Channel Isles, on 7th December, 1956, at the age of 67.
Mr. Renouf was educated in Jersey and received five years’ training at the Imperial College of Science and Technology from 1905 to 1910, gaining the Associateship of the Royal College of Science, a B.Sc. honours degree, and the Associateship of the Royal School of Mines.
Almost the whole his career was spent in West Africa. He took up employment on the Gold Coast in November, 1910, with Taquah Mining and Exploration Co., Ltd., as assayer and, later, cyanide manager and metallurgist, and from 1912 to 1913 worked as assayer and surveyor at Broomassie Mines, Ltd. After a short period in England in 1913 at tin mines in Cornwall, Mr. Renouf returned to the Gold Coast as cyanide manager at Adjah Bippo mines, but in 1914 was appointed assistant engineer to the Niger Company and engineer-in-charge of several of their tin mines.
Mr. Renouf joined Gurum River (Nigeria) Tin Mines, Ltd., in 1918, where he held the position of manager for nine years. He was a partner of Messrs. Laws, Rumbold and Co., mining and consulting engineers in Nigeria, from 1926 until 1935, when he was made director and joint manager of Nigeria Alluvials, Ltd., and in 1918 became managing director. Mr. Renouf left Nigeria in 1950 and returned to Jersey.
He was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1908, and transferred to Associate Membership in 1914 and to full Membership in 1926.
Vol. 67, Trans I.M.M., 1957-58, p.376
