Alexander Louis Parma died on 19th May, 1953, at the age of 53.
A Russian (Georgian) by birth and British by naturalization, Mr. Parma took the first year in science at Birmingham University in 1920-21 and then entered the Technical High School, Berlin, as a student of chemical engineering. On completing his course in the autumn of 1924 he was appointed chemist in the sugar refinery of Lebaudy Freres, Paris, where he remained until February, 1926. He then entered the service of the Mining Trust, Ltd., being employed as shift boss and mill foreman at the Mines de Villemagne, France, until January, 1928; as mill shift boss and research metallurgist at the Mine de St. Sebastien until April, 1930; and as research metallurgist at Mount Isa Mines Australia, until June, 1932.
Owing to ill-health Mr. Parma did not resume professional work until 1934, when he joined the metallurgical staff of Gold Coast Banket Areas, Ltd. Six years later he transferred to South Banket Areas, Ltd., and was mill superintendent when he left the company in 1943. After a year with Sierra Leone Selection Trust, and a short time with Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, he returned to Gold Coast Banker Areas in 1948. In. 1949 he took up a post in Colombia with Frontino Gold Mines, Ltd., and in 1950 returned to the Gold Coast as mill superintendent at Nanwa Gold Mines, Ltd. In 1951 he took a post in Eire with Silvermines Lead & Zinc Co., Ltd.
Mr. Parma was elected to Associate Membership of the Institution in 1943.
Vol. 62, Trans I.M.M., 1952-53, p.562
