Ernest Adolph Weinberg died in New York in March, 1927.
After completing his University and Polytechnic education as a chemist and mining and metallurgical engineer, he spent two years, 1881-2, in Mexico as assayer on a silver mine. In 1882, he was appointed assayer to the Victoria Mining Co., and acting superintendent of the Benson Smelting Co., Arizona, U.S.A., afterwards superintendent of the Rainshorn Mining & Smelting Co., ldaho. For about three years he was acting smelting manager for the Anaconda Copper Co., following which he was consulting engineer for mines in Dakota and New Mexico.
In 1899 he went to Australia where for about twelve years he was general manager of the Queensland Smelting Co., Ltd., Aldershot, Queensland. Later he returned to America and started in practice as a consulting engineer in New York. In 1904 he contributed a paper to the Transactions of the Institution on ‘The Blake-Morscher Electro-Static Separator’ (vol. xiv).
Mr. Weinberg was elected a Member of the Institution in 1897.
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