Hugh Alexander Power died at sea on August 8th, 1913, aged 43 years.
He was educated at the Royal School of Mines, where he obtained his Associateship and The Transvaal to fill the positions, during 1894-6, of assayer, sampler and ultimately manager under the Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa, Ltd. From 1896 to 1899 he was successively manager with the Potchefstroom Exploration Co., sampler and assayer to the Rand Nigel Gold Mining Co., and assayer and surveyor to the Consolidated Main Reef Gold Mining Co., all situated in the Transvaal.
From 1899 to 1904 he was engineer to the Rhodesia Mining and Finance Co. In 1905 he acted as deputy manager to some gold mines in Klerksdorp, and between 1905 and 1906 was assistant to a firm of consulting engineers in Johannesburg; from 1906 to 1907 he was resident manager to the York Gold Mining Co., at Krugersdorp. While in South Africa he held a Transvaal Mine Manager’s Certificate.
In 1907 Mr. Power was appointed manager of the Abbontiakoon Block 1, Tarkwa, West Africa, and remained in that capacity until the following year. In 1911 he went to Mexico, where he spent a year on mines in Sonora.
In July, 1913, he went out to India to inspect a mine several hundred miles up country, but, owing to throat trouble, his health became so impaired that he was compelled to resign his appointment, and he died while on his voyage home, between Bombay and Karachi.
Mr. Power was elected a Member of the Institution in 1909.
Vol. 23, Trans I.M.M., 1913-14, p.526
