Charles Edward Turner died in New Zealand in 1930 at the age of 63.
He started his professional career in 1884 as apprentice in engineering and shipbuilding yards, followed by metallurgical work and prospecting. In 1894 he was appointed supervising engineer for constructional work at the Bacis gold and silver mines, Durango, Mexico, where he erected a 20-stamp mill and the accompanying plant, laid out a pipe-line of considerable length, and provided an aerial ropeway for the conveyance of the ore.
At the close of 1898, he went to Spain as resident manager of the Cerro Muriano mines, Cordoba, and three years later was employed as resident engineer of the Kohi Kohi Gold-dredging Company, at Murchison, New Zealand. Returning to Spain at the end of 1902, he took up the appointment of resident engineer of the Bede Metal and Chemical Co.’s mine at Las Herrerias, Province of Huelva. In 1907 he became general manager of the Société de Mines de Cuivre de Campanarvo, and subsequently of the Mina Cuervo de Mora. In 1909 he joined the staff of the Huelva Copper and Sulphur Mines, Ltd., Valdelamusa, and remained in that employ until 1913, when he returned to New Zealand and ultimately established a practice as a consulting engineer.
Mr. Turner was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1905, and was transferred to Membership in 1908.
Vol. 40, Trans IMM 1930-31, pp.455-6
