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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2026-02-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001007b.htm person de Bavay Auguste Joseph François AACR2 9 June 1856 16 November 1944 Place of Birth Vilvorde, Belgium Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Bacteriologist Chemist Auguste de Bavay developed a revolutionary technique of ore extraction in response to 'the Sulphide Problem' (seen by some historians as the most serious metallurgical crisis faced by any Australian mining field in the nineteenth century). In July 1905 he patented his 'skin' or 'film' flotation process and opened what was to become a successful plant at Broken Hill. In 1909 de Bavay started the public company Amalgamated Zinc (de Bavay's Ltd) and enlarged the plant at Broken Hill.

Born Vilvorde, Belgium, 9 June 1856. Died Melbourne, 16 November 1944. OBE 1918. Educated as a surveyor at Namur and as a brewer and chemist at Gembloux. Plantation manager, Ceylon late 1870s-1884, brewer, T. and A. Aitken's brewery and distillery 1884-94, chief brewer, Fosters 1894-1904, formed de Bavay's Sulphide Process Co. Ltd 1904, formed de Bavay's Treatment Co. Ltd 1905, formed Amalgamated Zinc (de Bavay's) Ltd 1909. Acted as bacteriologist for the University of Melbourne until Thomas Cherry's (q.v.) appointment as lecturer in 1900. Consultant to Swan Brewery, Western Australia, Cascade Brewery, Tasmania and after 1907 Carlton and United Breweries, involved from 1904 in the foundation of an Australian paper industry. In 1914 he was asked by the minister for defence to investigate the possibility of manufacturing acetone for use in producing cordite. Within two weeks he had developed a process based on the fermentation and distillation of molasses and as a result was asked to design and build the Commonwealth Acetate of Lime Factory on the Brisbane River. His son John Francis Xavier (q.v.) assisted him in this task.

 de Bavay, John Francis Xavier (1888 - 1955) Conference convened by the Prime Minister, W.M Hughes, to consider the question of the establishment of a National Laboratory, 5 January 1916

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