Edward Charles Hugon died in Manchester on April 18th, 1934, at the age of 57, after a short illness.
He graduated from the Royal School of Mines with the Associateship in 1898, and in August of that year went to France to the Pierrefitte mines, Hautes Pyrénées, as assayer, subsequently being made head assayer and having charge of the hydro-electric power transmission plant.
In March, 1903, he went to Mexico to the mines of the Reform Mine Syndicate, Ltd., near El Oro, where he was engaged in exploration, development, shaft-sinking and other mining work. In October, 1905, he returned to the Pierrefitte mines, first as assistant to the consulting engineer and afterwards as manager. In 1919, he went to Oruro, Bolivia, but at the close of the following year he was back at Pierrefitte. He then took up a post in Cornwall, and thence went to Buenos Aires, but in 1923 he returned to England and established a firm for the supply of food specialities at Openshaw, Manchester. He contributed a paper to the Transactions of the Institution, ‘Plant for the Enrichment of Pyritic Blende Concentrates’ (vol. xxi, 1911-12).
Mr. Hugon was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1903, and was transferred to Membership in 1912.
Vol. 44, Trans IMM 1934-35, p.567
