Amos Treloar, J.P., died on 25th May, 1949, in Cheltenham Nursing Home at the age of 71.
From 1891 he was trained as a miner and ore-dresser at Wheal Metal and Flow & Fortune mines, Breague, Cornwall, and in 1903 became manager of the Breague Valley Mining Corporation mines. After three years he took up the appointment of chief tin and Wolfram dresser for the East Pool and Agar mines. He went to the Transvaal in 1910 as manager of the dressing works of Rooiberg Minerals Development Co., returning two years later to the post of instructor in ore-dressing at the Bessemer Laboratory at the Royal School of Mines.
In 1914 he took over the management of Wheal Kitty and Penhalls mines, Cornwall, subsequently becoming manager of South Polgooth Mining Corporation, and in 1919 took charge of Tyndrum lead and zinc mines in Perthshire for four years. His subsequent appointment in 1923, which he held for over 25 years until his death, was to the position of manager of the lead and zinc mines of the Vieille Montague Zinc Co. at Alston, Cumberland.
Mr. Treloar, who was joint author with Gurth Johnson of a paper contributed to the Transactions of the Institution entitled ‘The separation of tin oxide from Wolfram’ (vol. 17, 1907-8), was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1905 and was transferred to Membership in 1925.
Vol. 54, Trans IMM 1949-50, p.?
For further detail of Amos Treloar’s time at Tyndrum see:
- Moreton, S., 2015, ‘The Lead Mines of Tyndrum’, British Mining No.99, pp.96-105.
