Geoffrey William Marrett Eaton Turner died on 16th May, 1963. He was 82 years of age.
Born in 1881, Mr. Turner’s mining career began in 1899 at the Progress mines, New Zealand. From 1901 to 1903 he attended the Otago School of Mines, where he gained the Associateship, and thereafter worked with several companies in New Zealand in order to gain general mining experience.
During the First World War he served in France as a lieutenant with the New Zealand Engineers, and in 1919 went to South America as assistant superintendent and chief engineer to Tolima Mining Co., Ltd., Colombia, where he remained for two years. In 1921 he joined Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ltd., as assistant to the manager, being promoted to the position of general manager in 1925. In 1935 he was appointed consultant engineer and held this position until his retirement in 1947. He joined the board of the Corporation in 1940.
Mr. Turner was elected to Associate Membership of the Institution in 1919 and was transferred to full Membership in 1928. He served as a Member of Council for the years 1943-46. Among Mr. Turner’s technical publications are the papers ‘Description and method of working the Obuasi Reef of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ltd.’ (Transactions, vol. 38, 1928-29) and ‘Some notes on the Bibiani gold mine, West Africa’ (Transactions, vol. 57, 1947-48).
Vol. 74, Trans IMM 1964-65, p.952
