Pope Yeatman died on 5th December, 1953, at Philadelphia, Pa. He was 92 years of age.
An American citizen by birth, he graduated in 1883 at Washington University, St. Louis, with the degree of Mining Engineer, and in 1884 took up the appointment of assistant superintendent at Harris copper works, St. Genevieve, Missouri. He left a year later for work in New Mexico and in Mexico, in 1886 being appointed assayer to St. Louis and Senora Gold Mining Co. and superintendent to St. Louis and San Felipe Mining Co. Mr. Yeatman went to Colorado in 1888 as superintendent of jumbo Mining Co., Breckenridge, and a year later joined Doe Run Lead Mining Co., Missouri, as superintendent of their mines and metallurgical department. He remained there until 1892, and for the following three years was superintendent of Empire Zinc Co. at Joplin.
Mr. Yeatman went to South Africa in 1895 to become assistant engineer to Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa, Ltd. He was general manager of Robinson Deep Gold Mining Co., Ltd., from 1896, of Simmer & Jack Gold Mining Co., Ltd. from 1899, and of Randfontein Estates & Gold Mining Co., Ltd., from 1900, managing several other Rand gold mines before his return to the U.S.A. in 1904 to the position of chief engineer of the Guggenheim mining interests. He assisted in the development of large Chilian copper mines and also investigated Guggenheim interests in Alaska and China. During the 1914-1918 war Mr. Yeatman served under Bernard Baruch as director of the non-ferrous department of the War Industries Board, and for his services received the Distinguished Service Medal. In 1919 he became a partner in the New York firm of Yeatman and Berry.
Mr. Yeatman was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1901. He was also a Member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
Vol. 63, Trans IMM 1953-54, p.572
