P004557 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2004-02-24 human Ailie Smith updated 2026-02-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004557b.htm person Espie Frank Fletcher Kt OBE FTSE AACR2 8 May 1917 13 January 2004 Place of Birth Burma Place of Death South Australia, Australia Company director 1940 1945 Military service - Served in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 1957 1961 Career position - Assistant General Manager of production at the Zinc Corporation 1961 1962 Career position - General Manager of Comalco Products 1962 1964 Career position - General Manager of Conzinc Riotinto of Australia, Sydney 1964 Career position - Director of Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd. 1964 1965 Career position - General Manager of the Industrial Division of Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd. 1966 1966 Career position - Director of Kembla Coal & Coke 1967 1985 Career position - Director of Bougainville Copper Ltd. 1968 1979 Career position - Executive Director of Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd. 1970 1980 Career position - Member of the Council of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1971 1971 Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - In recognition of service to the mining industry. 1971 1979 Career position - Chairman of Bougainville Copper Ltd. 1974 1979 Career position - Deputy chairman of Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd. 1975 1975 Career position - President, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1977 1990 Career position - Director of the Westpac banking Corporation (formerly the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd.) 1978 1978 Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne 1978 1980 Career position - President, Australian Mining Industries Council 1978 1987 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS) 1978 1990 Career position - Member of the Council of the Australian Mineral Foundation 1979 1979 Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt) - In recognition of service to the mining industry. 1979 1983 Career position - Member of the Council of the Australian Mineral Industry Research Association Ltd. 1979 1985 Career position - Non-Executive Director of Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd. 1979 1987 Career position - Chairman, National Petroleum Advisory Committee 1979 1987 Career position - Director of ICI Australia Ltd. 1980 1980 Award - The Institute Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1980 1987 Career position - Director, Tubemakers of Australia Ltd. 1980 1989 Career position - Member of the Council of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 1981 1989 Career position - Director, Woodside Petroleum Ltd. 1983 1983 Award - William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medalist of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers 1983 1986 Career position - Vice-President, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences 1985 1988 Career position - Director, Westralian Sands Ltd. 1987 1987 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1978] 1988 1990 Career position - Chairman, Australian Mineral Foundation Kernot Memorial Medal, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne (1926 - )

Awarded the Medal 1978

 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (1975 - 1987)

Fellow 1978 - 1987; Vice-President 1983 - 1986; Councillor 1980 - 1987.

 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (1987 - )

Fellow 1987 [Elected Fellow AATS 1978]; Councillor 1987 - 1989.

 The Institute Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1935 - )

Awarded the Medal 1980. "In recognition of his leadership in the mining industry in Australian and his contribution to Papua New Guinea through his work in the development of the Bougainville Project including the sociological aspects."

 Espie, Frank (1917-2004)

Trove

 'Espie, Frank Fletcher', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Espie, Frank Fletcher Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Sir Frank Fletcher Espie - Recods The University of Melbourne Archives Sir Frank Fletcher Espie - Recods 1992.0120 1952 - 1988 Reports by Espie on NBHC and Zinc Corporation operations, including: Reports on "Overseas Trips", 1952, 1956, 1960, the latter of which includes "Report on Non Military use of Nuclear Explosives"; "The Broken Hill Mining Industry", 1955; "A Study of Operations of NBHV and ZC by W. E. Romig"; "…Advanced Management Program, Hawaii, 1958"; "Executive Development", 1959. Includes a number of other later reports on Broken Hill Mining Industry and a copy of a paper by Sir Ian Wark on Sir Maurice Mawby. Sir Frank Fletcher Espie - Recods The University of Melbourne Archives Sir Frank Fletcher Espie - Recods UMA-ACE-19900136 1966 - 1979 Mainly typescripts and drafts of speeches by F. F. Espie to the AusIMM and other organisations. Included are a large number of reports to CRA by consultant specialists and related materials. 0.36 m