Edward John Way died in London on February 6th, 1939, at the age of 73.
He received his training at London University, was apprenticed respectively to Sir William Armstrong, Mitchell and Company and to a firm of analytical chemists in London, and then acquired mining experience in the North of England and Wales. In 1887 he went to the Transvaal as engineer and chemist to the Transvaal Gold Exploration and Land Company, Ltd., and five years later was appointed general manager of the Eastleigh Syndicate, Klerksdorp.
In 1893 he became chief assistant to the late John Hays Hammond, who was then consulting engineer to the New Consolidated Gold Fields, and subsequently was in charge of a number of mines in the Union, including the George Goch Amalgamated, New Kleinfontein, Ltd., Chimes West, Ltd., and Benoni Gold Mines. In 1927 he was appointed manager to Gold Coast Explorers, and examined and reported on Prestea Block A, later known as Ariston Gold Mines (1929), of which he was manager and consulting engineer until his retirement.
Mr. Way was elected a Member of the Institution in 1901.
Vol. 49, Trans IMM 1939-40, p.741
