Charles Lacy Price died in Lima, Peru, on 2nd May, 1959, at the age of 86.
Mr. Price was born at Swansea and attended Swansea Technical School from 1896 to 1898 before leaving for Southern Rhodesia, where he worked as assayer and sampler at Surprise Gold Mining Co., Ltd., for three years and subsequently Red and White Rose Gold Mining Co., Ltd. For a short period in 1902-3 he was engaged on sampling at Simmer & Jack East, Ltd., and at Randfontein Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Transvaal, and in 1904 went to Mexico where he was employed for a year, first with Esperanza, Ltd., El Oro, then at Mesquital del Oro Gold Mining Co., Ltd.
He returned to England in 1906 to spend the following two years studying at Camborne School of Mines. From 1908 to 1909 he was working on the Gold Coast at Abbontiakoon Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and at Prestea Gold Mining Co., Ltd., then returned to Mexico as superintendent of the mill and cyanide plant of
Mesquital del Oro Gold Mining Co., Ltd. In the following year he was appointed assistant manager of Beneficiador de Cinuracion y Metallurgica de Zaccatecas. He left Mexico for Canada in 1911 to join Pearl Lake Gold Mining Co., Porcupine, as assayer and, later, engineer, but when the company ceased to operate in 1912, he went to Bolivia.
He took charge of the mill at Berenguela Tin Mines, Ltd., Colcho, and in 1914 was made mine manager and in 1921 general manager of the company. He formed his own company in 1930, Messrs. Price and Rowe, which operated various properties, but some years later, when the company was dissolved, Mr. Price was appointed manager of the Wright Estate which owned an antimony mine in Southern Bolivia.
Mr. Price went to Peru in 1950 and continued to carry out mine explorations particularly in the Department of Ancash. He was a director of South Pacific Industrial Supplies, of Lima.
He was elected to Associate Membership of the Institution in 1926.
Vol. 69, Trans I.M.M., 1959-60, pp.83-84
