Alfred Spencer Cragoe died in London on March 19th, 1929, of pneumonia following an attack of influenza.
Between the years 1892 and 1895 he obtained a general practical experience as a working miner and millman, in California and the Western United States. In the latter year he returned to England for a course in surveying, mine chemistry and assaying at the Camborne School of Mines. For about a twelvemonth after completion of that he was reduction officer on a mine in the Republic of Colombia, from which he was invalided home with malarial fever. On recovery, he went back to South America as reduction officer, assayer and subsequently acting manager on a gold mine in Southern Brazil, remaining there until 1900, when the property changed hands and work was suspended.
Returning to England, he was appointed reduction officer and eventually manager in charge of development work on mining properties in Wales, but in 1901 he again went to America as general manager of mines in Mexico, Working in that capacity for upwards of ten years. In 1912 he came back to take up an appointment at the Calamon Mine, Spain, where he remained for several years. After the War he spent most of his time in Cornwall, engaged in various mining enterprises.
Mr. Cragoe was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1899.
Vol. 39, Trans I.M.M. 1929-30, pp. 692-3
