Charles Harper Munro died at his home, Berkeley, California, on June 23rd, 1934, at the age of 60.
An American citizen, he graduated from the College of Mines, University of California, in 1898, and shortly afterwards was appointed superintendent of the Alta Gold Mining Co., two years later acting in a similar capacity for the Oroville Gold Dredging & Exploration Co. for a term of 4½ years. In October, 1905, he became consulting engineer to the Bourne Syndicate, Portland, Oregon, and later became manager of the Wild Goose Mining & Trading Co., Nome, Alaska.
In April, 1911, he went to Siberia as local manager of the Orak Goldfields, Ltd., and a year later he was appointed chief alluvial engineer to the Guggenheim Exploration Co., acting as general manager for two years of the Yukon Gold Co.
In 1918 he went to the Federated Malay States for the same group, for the purpose of acquiring dredging ground for a number of dredges from Yukon and Yuba which had exhausted their original ground in those districts, and he held the post of resident manager of the company’s dredging operations in the Malay Peninsula. In 1923 he returned to California to take up consulting practice in San Francisco.
Mr. Munro was elected a Member of the Institution in 1921.
Vol. 44, Trans IMM 1934-5, p.568
