Samuel Whitworth died at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, on January 5th, 1923.
With the exception of about four years, he spent the whole of his professional life in Australia. In 1894 he was appointed engineer to the South Londonderry G.M., Ltd, and First Find Consolidated Mines, Ltd., at Bulla Bulling, W.A., and two years later was engineer in charge of the erection and running of a 20-stamp mill at Broad Arrow. He was then engineer successively to the Federal (Gippsland, Victoria) Gold Mines, Ltd., and to Fraser’s South Extended, W.A., until 1900, when he came to England to take charge of the London testing works of the Ore Concentration Syndicate (Elmore process), and to supervise the erection of plant and experimental work in connection with the concentration of ores by oil. He also had charge of the erection and running of Elmore concentration plant at the St. David’s Gold and Copper Mines in North Wales.
In November 1902, he returned to Western Australia to erect plant and carry out experimental work on the concentration of gold ores by the Elmore process at Lake View Consols. Later he joined the staff of Frazer & Chalmers, Ltd., at Kalgoorlie. He returned to England for about two years to the Ore Concentration Syndicate, Ltd., in North London, going to Australia again in 1907 to work with the Australian Metal Co., Ltd., at Broken Hill, N.S.W. In 1909 he resumed his connection with Fraser & Chalmers, Ltd., at their Melbourne office. In 1913-14 he was in England for a time, and returned to New South Wales to the Edith Mining Co., Ltd., at Deepwater, with whom he remained until about 1922.
Mr. Whitworth was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1902.
Vol. 33, Trans IMM 1923-24, p.542
