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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2024-01-25 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-01-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007334b.htm person Klug George Charles AACR2 3 March 1875 13 July 1935 Place of Birth Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Chester, England Metallurgist Company director 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. c. 1880 c. 1880 Education - Central School, Ballarat c. 1890 c. 1895 Career position - Assistant, George Arthur Goyder, Government Analyst, South Australia 1894 1894 Education - Diploma Metallurgy, South Australian School of Mines, Adelaide 1894 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 1900s Career event - Member, American Institute of Mining Engineers (MAmIME) 1900s 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 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 1918 Career event - Member (MAusIMM), Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy c. 1920 1935 Career position - Director, Gold Mines of Australia Ltd., Melbourne 1921 1921 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mining and Metallurgy), Australian National Research Council 1935 1935 Buried - Chester, England Goyder, George Arthur (1855 - 1940)

George Klug was an assistant to George Goyder c1890 - 1895

 Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (1885 - 2000)

Chief chemist, assayer, assistant metallurgist 1897 - 1900; Chemist and assayer 1895 - 1897.

 Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia (1916 - ?)

Director 1910 - 1935

 Zinc Corporation Limited (1905 - 1949)

Director 1910 - 1935

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Foundation Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1921 -

 'Klug, George Charles', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Klug, George Charles Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Engineering Heritage : Biographies Engineering Heritage : Biographies Engineering Heritage Australia 2024 Engineering Heritage Australia : wiki website Edited Book: Who's Who in Australia 1935 Knox, Errol G. Who's Who in Australia 1935 Melbourne Herald and Weekly Times Ltd 1935 Edited Book: A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of biography. Volume 1: A-K Gibbney, H. J.; and Smith, Ann G. 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