George Allan More died on June 12th, 1946, at Neutral Bay, Sydney, N.S.W., at the age of 67.
He was born at Singleton, N.S.W., and received his training at Sydney University from 1896 to 1900, graduating with the degree of B.Eng. (Min. and Met.). He began his career at the Mt. Cobalt Black Snake gold mine, Queensland, and after varied experience left to join Overflow Mines, N.L., N.S.W., as assayer and surveyor. From 1902 to 1906 he was employed by Tasmania Gold Mining and Quartz Crushing Co., Ltd., and for fifteen months in 1906 and 1907 was managing the Primrose mine at Rosebery, Tasmania. In the latter part of 1907 he acted as consulting engineer at the Colebrook copper mine, and in January, 1908, was appointed manager of the Mt. Lyell Comstock mine. After eight months Mr. More resigned, and carried out mine examinations in Australia and New Zealand, but at the beginning of 1909 took up the position of chief mining engineer to Great Cobar, Ltd., N.S.W.
He left ten months later to become mine manager for North Mt. Boppy, Ltd., operating in Hargraves District, N.S.W., where his particular work was to develop a gold mining prospect for the company. This property was finally closed down at the end of 1912 and Mr. More resumed private examination and reporting. He was appointed chief mining engineer to Great Cobar, Ltd., in 1915, but, pending re-starting of operations, made valuations for the Federal Taxation Department of the producing metalliferous mines of New South Wales. He rejoined Great Cobar in 1916 and served until operations were stopped in 1919.
He then left Australia for Malaya to take up the appointment of consulting mining engineer to Messrs. Sime, Darby & Co., Ltd., where he was mainly concerned with the equipment and operation of sluicing, dredging and tin lode mines in Malaya, and carried out many mine examinations and valuations in Malaya and Siam and the examination of coal lands and alluvial gold areas in Central Sumatra. In 1924 and 1925 he was on special service for the High Commissioner of Singapore, acting as a witness in the case Duff Development Co., Ltd. v. State of Kelantan.
In 1930 he returned to Australia and until 1933 carried out examinations mainly for Gold Mines of Australia, Ltd. He then went to Dutch West Borneo as mining engineer in charge of an expedition to examine gold alluvial dredging areas for Melawi Gold Syndicate, Ltd., of Sydney, and two years later was appointed consulting mining engineer to Oriomo Exploration, Ltd., for whom he worked in New Guinea, Queensland and New South Wales. He resumed private practice in Sydney in l938.
During his period of service in Malaya Mr. More contributed a paper to the Transactions of the Institution entitled ‘Suction-cutter dredging for tin in Malaya’ (vol. 39, 1929-30).
He was elected to Membership in 1922.
Vol. 56, Trans IMM 1946-7, pp.621-22
