Sverre Blekum died in 1943 at the age of 57.
He was a Norwegian and studied mining at the University of Christiania from 1907 to 1912.
He began his career as assistant chemist with Professor Tarup, and in 1914 went as geologist to the Spitzbergen Coal and Trading Co.’s mines at Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, for six months. He held the position of chemist at Knaben mines for fifteen months from 1915 to 1916 and was subsequently appointed manager of Ornehommen molybdenite mines, Flekkefjord. He specialized in the mining and flotation of molybdenite and from 1918 until his death was manager and technical director of A/S Knaben Molybdæn-gruber, Norway.
He was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1918.
Vol. 56, Trans I.M.M. 1946-7, p. 609
