Henry Tyndall Brett died in the Memorial Hospital at Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, on November 17th, 1988, at the age of 62.
He was an Australian by birth, and began his career in Western Australia when, in 1895, he became mill assistant on the Francis Reward mine at Murchison. A few months later he went to the Kinsella mine on the same field.
In 1896 he took a course of assaying at an analytical laboratory in Melbourne, and from 1897 to 1900 he was again in Western Australia as assayer, smelter, and temporary mill manager to the Ivanhoe mine, Kalgoorlie; and in 1900 he was appointed reduction officer to the Ivanhoe Gold Corporation, Ltd.
In 1906 he went to Rhodesia as resident engineer on a mine in Gwanda, and a year later he began practice as a consulting engineer and metallurgist in Bulawayo. In 1912 he joined the Goldfields group, and later became manager of the Falcon mine, which position he held until about 1926. He was also at one time manager of the Wanderer mine and he subsequently returned to his private consulting practice.
Mr. Brett was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1909.
Vol. 48, Trans I.M.M. 1938-39, p. 827
