Paul Davis died on 5th May, 1956, at the age of 73.
Mr. Davis studied mechanical and electrical engineering at University College, London, from 1898 to 1901, then began a three-year apprenticeship at the mining machinery works of Edward Chester and Co., Renfrew, studying in the evening at the West of Scotland Technical College.
Mr. Davis had six months’ underground mining experience in 1904 with Clitters United Mines, Cornwall, before taking up construction work at Abbontiakoon Block ‘A’. He returned to England in 1906 to study at the Camborne School of Metalliferous Mining, obtaining their Diploma in 1908. He joined Wheal Friendship and Wheal Jewell Mines, Devon, in the same year as assistant manager.
In 1911 Mr. Davis left for Bolivia to manage the Chorolque section of Cie Aramayo de Mines en Bolivie, producing principally tin, and was later made manager of the Tasna section also.
He returned to Devon in 1929 where he worked as mining consultant, and in 1935 made a short trip to Kagera mines, Uganda, as assistant to the general manager. On his return to England later that year he and some friends formed a company under the style of Terrell, Davis and Toll, and Western Mineral Recovery, Ltd. They did consulting work and also opened up old mines on their own account and during the war re-processed old dumps for tin and wolfram.
For several years before his death Mr. Davis was consultant engineer to New Consols Mines, Ltd., Cornwall.
He was elected a Member of the Institution in 1926.
Vol. 67, Trans IMM 1957-58, p.30
