Stanley Walkington Carpenter died at the age of 72 in the European Hospital, Takoradi, Gold Coast, on (March 7th, 1944, following a stroke.
After his education at Taunton College and Dulwich College, and three years in a City office, he was an assistant in the laboratory of the late Mr. George. T. Holloway for a few months, before taking up an appointment as assayer and prospector for the Clare Estate Syndicate, Umtali, South Africa. From 1894 to 1897 he studied at the Camborne School of Mines, and on completing the course was engaged as assistant sampler by the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., and later as surveyor, assayer and assistant mine captain by Bufielsdoorn Estate and Gold Mines, Ltd.
In 1898 Mr. Carpenter prospected and reported on copper-zinc deposits in Asia Minor, and in the following year his work took him to Siberia, Mongolia and Western China. From 1900 until his death he worked mainly in West Africa, first with Gold Coast and Ashanti Explorers, Ltd., and later as general manager of Tarkwa Proprietary, Ltd., and Tano Bippo Gold Mines, Ltd. In 1904 he became chief assistant engineer to the Niger Co., Ltd., and in 1910 was appointed manager of properties owned by Tin Areas of Nigeria, Ltd. Later he was manager of the Nigerian Consolidated Tin Mines, Ltd., and Rafinpa Mines, Ltd., and from 1923 until 1938 was general manager of Amari Mines, Ltd. He subsequently took a post in the Gold Coast, where he was engaged at the time of his death.
Mr. Carpenter was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1900 and was transferred to Membership in 1911.
Vol. 54, Trans I.M.M. 1944-5, p. 261
