Klug, George Charles (1875 - 1935)

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.

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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

1900s

Career event - Member, American Institute of Mining Engineers (MAmIME)

1900s

Career event - Member, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MIMM)

1900 - 1901

Career position - Metallurgist, Golden Horse Estates Co., Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

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

Buried - Chester, England

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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. Volume 1: A-K (Canberra: Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987), 403 pp, https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/files/ncb/documents/A%20Biographical%20Register%201788-1939%20Vol%201%20A-K.pdf. vol.1, p.401. Details
• Knox, Errol G. ed., Who's Who in Australia 1935 (Melbourne: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1935), 567 pp. "Klug, George Charles, MIMM MAmIME MAustIME(Vic)" p.274. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Engineering Heritage : Biographies', in Engineering Heritage Australia : wiki website, Engineering Heritage Australia, 2024, https://heritage.engineersaustralia.org.au/wiki/Person:Klug,_George. Biography: George Klug. Details