Gerald Galt was killed in action in France on December 25th, 1916, while serving as a Lieutenant in the Tunnelling Section of the Canadian Engineers.
He was 29 years of age, and was a graduate of the University of Toronto, where he took the degree of B.A.Sc. with honours in 1908. For the next two years Mr. Galt was travelling in the mining districts of North America, and turning his hand to anything that would yield him experience and practical knowledge. He worked underground at the Motherlode Mine, Greenwood, British Columbia, and at the Alaska Mexican Mine, Treadwell, Alaska, where he also spent six months in the stamp mill. Then he went south to Nevada, and for about nine months worked in the concentrator of the Nevada Consolidated Co. at Ely, and for a short time in the mill of the Utah Copper Co. at Garfield. From June to November, 1910, he had charge of the construction of a one hundred-ton stamp mill and a cyanide plant at Napoleon, Washington; and on the completion of his engagement returned to Nevada, and for about a year acted as one of the samplers to the Nevada Consolidated Co. After a few months in the cyanide plant of the Tonopah Mining Co., at Millers, Nevada where he occupied himself in the study of the treatment of sand and slime and of filtering methods.
Mr. Galt went to Ontario in May, 1913, and for 18 months filled the position of mine foreman at the Cobalt Comet Mine, Giroux Lake. He held his last appointment with the Braden Copper Co., Rancagua, Chile, for about the same length of time, resigning in June, 1916, to return to Canada and join the Engineering Section of the Canadian Forces.
Mr. Galt was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1914.
Vol. 26, Trans IMM 1916-17, p.264
