Gerald Noel Carroll died on 15th August, 1944, at the age of 53.
He was educated at Bedford Grammar School and went to Germany in 1904 to Neuenheim College, Heidelberg, and was at Heidelberg University from 1907 to 1908. He spent the following year in Hanover, and in 1910 began his mining career at Knights Deep, Ltd., Germiston, Transvaal, where he remained nine years, during the last two of which he held the position of mine captain.
He was manager of asbestos mines at Pietersburg from 1919 to 1922, and during the latter year acted as efficiency officer to the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Co. in Germiston. He became manager successively of Spes Bona Gold Mining Co., and Geldenhuis Tributors, Johannesburg, and from May, 1924, was employed for six months as geologist to Messrs. Rosehaugh & Co., of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika Territory. In August, 1925, Mr. Carroll took up the appointment of manager in charge of field operations with Northern Platinum Exploration, Ltd., in the Transvaal, and left their employment at the end of 1926 to join the staff of Luipaards-vlei Estate and Gold Mining Co., Ltd., at Krugersdorp as underground manager and later as sectional manager and acting general manager.
He resigned early in 1928 owing to ill health, but for six months from the end of the year held the position of resident engineer at the Alaska copper mine in Southern Rhodesia. He then worked in Northern Rhodesia as geologist to Rhodesian Congo Border Concession, Ltd., until 1931, and from 1932 to 1933 was employed by Consolidated Main Reef Mines and Estate, Ltd. After holding the managership of Babrasco gold mines at Klerksdorp for a few months he set up in practice as consulting mining engineer in Johannesburg.
He was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1935.
Vol. 56, Trans I.M.M. 1946-7, pp. 611-12
