James Park died in Nigeria on September 3rd, 1918, aged 37 years.
From 1904 to 1907 he underwent training at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, and in the last-named year he passed First Class in the Colliery Managers’ examination in Edinburgh. On the completion of his course he went out to Rhodesia to the Eureka Gold Mine, Salisbury, where he was engaged in surveying.
In 1908 he returned to Scotland, where he was employed as surveyor, and in the following year he was shift overman at the Riggonhead Collieries, Haddingtonshire.
In 1910 he was engaged on a tin prospecting expedition in Northern Nigeria for about two years, and then went in 1912 on a mining and prospecting expedition to Katanga, in the Belgian Congo; During 1915 he was for about ten months on the Mines de Boson, Var, France, and in 1916 he joined the staff of the Wallis Co., Ltd., N’Tranang, Gold Coast Colony, of which he was manager at the date of his death.
Mr. Park was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1915.
Vol. 29, Trans I.M.M., 1919-20, p.433
