Christian Adolph Heussler died suddenly in London in 1920.
He was Australian by birth, his father being a member of the Legislative Council of the Queensland Parliament and Consul for the Netherlands. He studied at Sydney University and in 1883 was awarded the Silver Medal for Geology. Leaving the Commonwealth in 1886, he graduated as a mining and metallurgical engineer at the Royal Prussian School of Mines at Clausthal i/Harz, the diploma being granted on March 19th, 1890, and certified by the Royal Mining Department on April 10th following. During the five years of study he travelled extensively through the various mining centres of Germany, Austria, Hungary and England.
In 1891 he was appointed by the Queensland Government to report on the International Mining Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. During 1892 he was engaged on assaying, analyses and reporting in Brisbane, and for the next ten years he occupied various positions on mines in Queensland and Western Australia, latterly as consulting engineer to a group in the W.A. goldfields. Returning to Europe in 1902, he was engaged on reporting on mines in the east, including six months in 1904 spent in Liberia, one year (1906-7) in Abyssinia, a period on the Gold Coast in 1910, and in Nigeria in 1912-13.
During the War he was employed in the Censor’s Department.
Mr. Heussler was elected a Member of the Institution in 1907.
Vol. 30, Trans IMM 1920-21, pp.472-3
