Thomas Lane Carter died at the age of 35, on September 2nd, 1912, at Polario, Montana, U.S.A., from injuries received in a mine accident. He was taking up some very heavy bags containing samples of ore, when he slipped and fell down the slope a distance of over 200 ft. He died the same day without recovering consciousness.
Mr. Carter obtained the degree of B.E., from Tulane University, Louisiana, in 1896, and shortly afterwards went to South Africa, where he was engaged in assaying, sampling and surveying. He was for six years in the employ of the Grown Deep and Robinson Central Deep Mines, and served during the closing months of the Boer War as a captain of volunteers. In 1904 he was appointed assistant engineer on a mining mission into Central Africa for the late Alfred Beit, and from 1905 to 1907, he was manager of the French Rand Gold Mine.
In 1908 and 1909 he was general manager in Nicaragua for Silverstein and Kilting, mine owners, and in 1910 became a consulting engineer in Chicago with Mr. S.T. Osgood. At one time vice-president of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, he was also a life member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and, while in South Africa, acted as the South African correspondent to the Engineering and Mining Journal.
Mr. Carter was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1904, and transferred to Membership in 1911.
Vol. 22, Trans I.M.M. 1912-13, p. 717
