James Thomson Dixon died at his residence, Homebush, Sutton, Surrey, on April 8th, 1943, at the age of 69.
After receiving his general education at the Sydney Grammar School he entered the Engineering School of the University of Sydney in 1892, obtaining the degree of B.E. in mining and metallurgy in 1895, with honours in three subjects, an achievement which no previous student could claim.
On leaving the University he took a post as assayer at the Old Man mine, North Queensland, and in the following year became manager of cyanide works near Charters Towers. In 1898 he went to Sumatra, where he was prospecting and reporting on concessions for two years, and in 1900 he was employed as a mining engineer in British Columbia, where he spent a further two years.
In 1902 he returned to Queensland to manage cyanide works at Mt. Shamrock, and in 1905-6 he managed the cyanide works of Bibiani Gold Fields, Ltd., in the Gold Coast. In 1906 he joined the late D.D. Henderson and C.J. Inder, consulting engineers, and the firm of Inder, Henderson and Dixon, with offices in London Wall Buildings, acted as consulting engineers for a large number of dredging and mining companies. Mr. Dixon visited Siberia for the firm, and managed copper mines there for the Siberian Propy. Mines, Ltd.
Mr. Dixon was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1898 and was transferred to Membership in 1906.
Vol. 53, Trans IMM 1943-4, p.428
