John Reginald Horsley died in the Gold Coast Colony at the close of 1925.
He received his technical training at the Royal School of Mines, graduating as Associate in Mining in 1902. His as a surveyor on mines in North and South Wales, after which he was for a year occupied as assistant engineer in reporting on properties in Mexico and the United States. Returning to England in 1905 he was for some months demonstrator in practical mine surveying at the Royal School of Mines, prior to his appointment as mine superintendent of the Mijnbouw Maatschappij Loemar, Dutch West Borneo.
In 1909 he went to Russia for Messrs. Hooper & Speak, and was for five years on the Troitzk goldfields, and for six years on the Spassky and Atbasar copper mines. Towards the close of the war he held a temporary commission in the R.E. attached to the British Railway Mission in Siberia. For 18 months from September, 1920, he was assistant manager of the Soengei Pagoe Mining Co., on the West Coast of Sumatra, and in 1922 he was appointed manager of the Prestea Block ‘A’, Ltd., and Abbontiakoon Mines, Ltd., Gold Coast Colony. He returned to England in the summer of 1924, and in January, 1925, returned to the West Coast as manager of the Ashanti Gold Fields Corporation, Ltd., at Obuassi.
Mr. Horsley was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1902 and was transferred to Associateship in 1908, and to Membership in 1920.
Vol. 36, Trans IMM 1926-27, p.532
