George William Rudyerd died in Bournemouth on 22nd March, 1960, at the age of 75.
Mr. Rudyerd was a student at the Royal School of Mines between 1904 and 1907, and gained the Associateship of the School in mining. He was employed by Cerro Muriano mines, Cordoba Copper Co., Spain, from 1907 to 1911, as surveyor, assayer and millman, then joined Benue (Northern Nigeria) Tin Mines, Ltd., as surveyor and prospector on alluvial properties. From 1912 to 1915 Mr. Rudyerd worked in Venezuela with the South America Copper Co. as mine and smelter manager, and then spent some months surveying for the Bolivar Railway Co.
He returned to England to join H.M. Forces and served as a lieutenant, Field Coy., Royal Engineers, with the British Expeditionary Force in France until 1917. From 1917 to 1919 he was attached to the Aeronautical Inspection Department in London as assistant inspector.
Mr. Rudyerd resumed his mining career in 1919 as manager of Meriel asphalt mines of Oil Trust, Ltd., in Cuba, leaving in 1922 to join Rhodesia Broken Hill Development Co., Ltd., in the capacity of assistant general manager, concerned with the mining and smelting of lead, zinc and vanadium and the development of a hydroelectric power scheme.
Between 1927 and 1928 he examined properties in Spain and Portugal for Messrs. Pellew-Harvey and Co., and during 1928 worked at Tegon Mining Co., Spain, surveying and valuing gold properties in Almeria. He joined Rio Tinto Co., Spain, in 1929 as assistant to the technical manager for two years. During the period 1932 to 1934 Mr. Rudyerd financed and managed a private company in London and was consultant to royalty owners, Somerset collieries.
He went to Australia in 1934 to join Courderoy Gold Mines, Ltd., as general manager, opening and developing the property until 1936. At the beginning of the second world war Mr. Rudyerd was engaged in Derbyshire on the work of the National Savings Committee and in 1943 was appointed area prospecting officer (Warwickshire and Staffordshire) of the Directorate of Outcrop Coal, Ministry of Fuel and Power. He retired from this position in 1946, but continued to live in Derbyshire until 1951 when he took up residence near Bournemouth.
He joined the Institution in 1907 as a Student and was elected an Associate Member in 1913.
Vol. 70, Trans I.M.M., 1960-61, pp.567-8
