Hugh Fraser Grace died on 1st July, 1955, in Durban, South Africa, at the age of 55.
Mr. Grace was born in Scotland and educated at Musselburgh, Dalkeith, and Cumnock Academy. He was employed in various capacities in collieries in Scotland from 1914 to 1922, when he entered the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, obtaining their Diploma in Mining Engineering in 1925 and in the same year being awarded a First Class Colliery Manager’s Certificate of Competency.
In 1926 Mr. Grace took up a position in Peru as junior mining engineer at the Pataz gold mine of North Peru Mining and Smelting Co. A year later he became mine superintendent of Callacuiyan anthracite mine, and from 1930 to 1932 was mining engineer and assistant mine superintendent at Goyallaquisqua mine of Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation.
He left Peru to work in Northern Rhodesia, where from 1933 to 1938 he was shift boss and later mine captain at Rhokana Corporation, Ltd., joining Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines, Ltd., in 1938 as senior mine captain. A year later he was made underground manager and in 1946 assistant manager, and was promoted manager in 1950.
Mr. Grace retired from active mining in August, 1954, and settled in Durban.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1952.
Vol. 66 Trans IMM 1956-57, p.240
