Franklin White died in London on October 18th, 1928, at the age of 78.
From 1870 to 1873 he practised as a mining engineer and surveyor in the State of Antioquia, Republic of Colombia, and for four subsequent years was manager of the Antioquia Company’s mines. In 1878 he was occupied in railway surveys in the State of Cauca, also in Colombia. During the period 1879 to 1886 he was successively sub-manager and manager of the Frontino & Bolivia G.M. Company’s mines, and after that manager of yet another mine in South America.
In 1889 he went to South Africa to take over the management of gold mines in Rhodesia and the Transvaal, amongst them being the Unity, Gipsy Queen, Luipaard’s Vlei and Village Main Reef. He spent a number of years in South Africa, especially in Rhodesia, and even late in his life still made trips there extending over a wide area and many months. Among other countries visited was New South Wales, Australia.
When at home he attended the meetings of the Institution and took part in the discussion of papers. He contributed three papers to the proceedings, ‘Dry Crushing and Cyaniding of Rand Ore’ (Trans. vii, 1898-9), ‘Errors in Sampling and Assaying Gold Ores due to the presence of coarse Gold’ (Trans. xxii, 1912-18), and ‘Notes on the correction required to Aneroid readings for Altitude to counteract the effect produced by the Diurnal Barometric Wave’ (Trans. xxxii, 1922-23).
Mr. White was elected a Member of the Institution in 1896.
Vol. 38, Trans IMM 1928-29, p.490
