Douglas Philip Brown died in September, 1921, but his death was not verified until two years later.
He began his professional career as a practical miner at the Alaska Treadwell mine in 1885, where he worked for a year, occupying the next two years in prospecting on the Yukon River. He was one of the party who discovered Forty Mile Creek.
Towards the close of 1888, he went to Australia, and worked in the Pilbara, Eglin, and Kimberley districts for three years, as manager of several well-known mines. In 1891 he returned to America, to Tombstone, Arizona, and two years later to Washington State, where he was manager of the Leavenworth Hydraulic Gold Mining Co. for a further two years.
In 1895 he returned to England and thence went to Venezuelan to report on mines. His next engagement, towards the close of 1897, was in Siberia to report on properties in the Urals under the late Mr. Arthur L. Pearse. During subsequent years, practically to the date of his death, he was engaged in reporting and prospecting work in various countries.
Mr. Brown was elected a Member of the Institution in 1896.
Vol. 34, Trans I.M.M. 1924-25, p. 562
