Person
Klug, George Charles (1875 - 1935)
- Born
- 3 March 1875
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 13 July 1935
Chester, England - Occupation
- Company director and Metallurgist
Summary
George Klug, MAusIMM MIMM MAmIME ASASM, was a leading mining metallurgist, assayer and company manager, who developed mining and smelting operations at Broken Hill, New South Wales, and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, between 1895 and 1935. In particular, from 1910, he was the general manager of Bewick Moreing and Company Ltd, a major British mining consultancy that managed many gold mines in Western Australia. Later he was a Director of a number of major listed mining companies. In his early working years, he gained assaying knowledge under George Arthur Goyder, the South Australian Government Analyst.
Details
Chronology
- c. 1880
- Education - Central School, Ballarat
- c. 1890 - c. 1895
- Career position - Assistant, George Arthur Goyder, Government Analyst, South Australia
- 1894
- Education - Diploma Metallurgy, South Australian School of Mines, Adelaide
- 1894
- Career event - Associate, South Australian School of Mines (ASASM)
- 1895 - 1897
- Career position - Chemist and Assayer, Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Broken Hill, New South Wales
- 1897 - 1900
- Career position - Chief chemist, Assayer, Assistant metallurgist, Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Broken Hill, New South Wales
- 1900 - 1901
- Career position - Metallurgist, Golden Horse Estates Co., Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
- 1900s
- Career event - Member, American Institute of Mining Engineers (MAmIME)
- 1900s
- Career event - Member, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MIMM)
- 1901 - c. 1902
- Career position - Resident manager, Fremantle Smelting Works Ltd., Fremantle, Western Australia
- c. 1902 - 1905
- Career position - General manager, Fremantle Smelter Ltd, Fremantle, Western Australia
- c. 1905 -
- Career position - Co-examiner, Western Australian School of Mines and Technical Schools
- 1905 - c. 1908
- Career position - General manager, Great Boulder Perseverance Co. Ltd. Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
- c. 1906 - 1910
- Career position - General manager, Phillips River Gold and Copper Co., Western Australia
- 1909
- Career event - Member, Australian Institute of Mining Engineers (MAusIME)
- 1910 -
- Career position - Superintendent, Great Fingall Consolidated, Daydawn, Western Australia
- 1910 -
- Career position - General Manager, Bewick Moreing and Company
- 1910 - 1935
- Career position - Director, Zinc Corporation Ltd., Melbourne
- 1910 - 1935
- Career position - Director, Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia, Melbourne
- 1918
- Career event - Member, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM)
- c. 1920 - 1935
- Career position - Director, Gold Mines of Australia Ltd., Melbourne
- 1921
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mining and Metallurgy), Australian National Research Council
- 1935
- Life event - Buried Chester, England
Related entries
Published resources
Edited Books
- Gibbney, H. J.; and Smith, Ann G. eds, A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of biography. (2 volumes) (Canberra: Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987), 429 pp. Details
- Knox, Errol G. ed., Who's Who in Australia 1935 (Melbourne: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1935), 567 pp. "Klug, George Charles" p.274. Details
Ken McInnes
Created: 25 January 2024