Charles Ingle Robinson died at Westgate-on-Sea on 13th October, 1960, at the age of 76.
He received his technical training at the Royal School of Mines between 1903 and 1906, when he graduated B.Sc. and obtained the A.R.S.M. in metallurgy. He was awarded an I.M.M. Scholarship and grant to undertake a postgraduate course in Johannesburg at Crown Deep gold mine, where he remained for two years. In June, 1908, Mr. Robinson took up the position of mine surveyor at Abbontiakoon Block I, Ltd., on the Gold Coast, but in the following year joined Mr. J.D. Wolf as metallurgist and assayer, working on the Wolf concentrating table in London.
After a few months he was appointed to Mission Miniere du Bas-Katanga, in the Belgian Congo, where he assisted the chief of an expedition prospecting for coal, tin and copper.
Mr. Robinson joined the Mines Inspectorate, Federated Malay States, in December, 1911, and remained with the Department of Mines for 22 years. He was later promoted Senior Inspector of Mines, retiring in 1933. He continued to take an active interest in Malayan mining and in 1938-39 returned as technical consultant to Hong Fatt (Sungei Besi), Ltd., and Lake Yew Mines, Ltd.
During the 1914-18 war Mr. Robinson served in the Malay States Volunteer Force with the Electrical Engineers, R.E.(V.).
He joined the Institution as a Student in 1906, and was elected an Associate Member in 1911 and a full Member in 1920. He was also a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Vol. 70, Trans I.M.M., 1960-61, pp.679-80
