Ernest Jerrold Carlyle died on 27th April, 1952, at Victoria, British Columbia, at the age of 74.
Mr. Carlyle was educated in Woodstock, Ontario, and entered McGill University in 1898. He transferred from the Arts Course to the Faculty of Applied Science two years later and graduated in mining engineering in 1904. He then had further training in metallurgy between 1904 and 1907 at Anaconda, Montana, and Arizona, and in 1907 went to Russia for four years in charge of plant for the Kyshtim Corporation. In 1912 he visited Rio Tinto, Spain, and spent the following year in the Argentine, returning to Russia in 1914 as metallurgical engineer for the Sissert Company. He held that position for three years until, production being suspended, he was sent by the company to the U.S.A. to continue there the designing of a new smelter and refinery.
In 1918 the activities of the Sissert Corporation were terminated and Mr. Carlyle returned to Canada as smelter superintendent for British American Nickel Co. at Sudbury, Ontario. From 1926 to 1931 he was superintendent of the Shorey plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co. in Peru, until economic conditions in Peru caused suspension of operations and Mr. Carlyle returned to North America to become Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1931. He was appointed Executive Director of the Institute in 1947, and served in the dual office until his retirement in 1949. He was made Secretary-Emeritus of the Canadian Institute in that year and also an Honorary Member of the Mining Society of Nova Scotia in recognition of his ‘meritorious service to his country, the Institute and fellow engineers’.
Mr. Carlyle was elected to Honorary Membership of the Institution in 1950 in recognition of his valuable services to the mining profession in Canada.
Vol. 62, Trans I.M.M. 1952-53, p. 199
