Lloyd E. Daume died in New York on 3rd March, 1961, at the age of 57.
Mr. Daume was born and educated in Calumet, Michigan, and studied at Michigan College of Mining and Technology between 1921 and 1934, graduating B.Sc. mining engineering and E.M. During that period he gained experience in many aspects of mining with several companies including the Calumet and Hecla
Copper Co., Combined Metals Reduction Co., United Verde Copper Co., Calumet and Arizona Mining Co., Corporación Minera de Mexico, S.A., and San Francisco Mines of Mexico, Ltd.
Mr. Daume went to Bolivia on his appointment as chief engineer to Patino Mines and Enterprises (Consolidated), Inc., in April, 1935, and three years later he took the post of mine superintendent, consulting engineer and general administrator of Cia. Huanchaca de Bolivia, Cia. Minera de Oruro and Cia. Minera Colquiri. In 1941 he was appointed managing director of the Cia. Minera Montserrat, and in the following year was made general manager and vice-president of Cia. Minera Unificada del Cerro de Potosi.
In 1947 Mr. Daume set up in private practice as a consulting engineer and carried out investigations in Bolivia and Chile. Between 1948 and 1954 he was consulting engineer to Simon I. Patino, Paris; managing director of Southern Minerals and Marketing Corporation (Pty.), Ltd., Johannesburg; director and consulting engineer to Temeraire Asbestos Mines, Ltd., and to Rhodesia Copper Ventures, Ltd., Southern Rhodesia; managing director of Southern Minerals, Ltd., Salisbury, and consulting engineer to Uruwira Minerals, Ltd., Tanganyika.
He left Southern Rhodesia in 1955 and set up as an independent consulting mining engineer in New York, his work varying from examinations for the acquisition of mining properties in South Africa, Tanganyika, Kenya and Iran, mining methods and economics for iron mining companies in Spain, to large tunnels and underground installations for U.S. Naval bases. He made several professional visits to Iran and South America but increasing ill-health forced him to retire in 1960.
Mr. Daume was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1953. He was also a Member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, and the Geological Society of South Africa.
Vol. 71, Trans IMM 1961-62, pp.695-6
