Chung Yu Wang died on 30th August, 1958, at the age of 78.
Mr. Wang graduated from Tientsin University Mining Department in 1899. He spent a year at the University of California as a scholarship student, and between 1902 and 1904 studied at Columbia University, New York, where he gained the A.M. degree. He continued at the University for another year doing postgraduate work in the geology department.
Between 1906 and 1908 Mr. Wang travelled in Europe in the interests of the Wah Chang Mining and Smelting Co., of Changsha, Hunan Province, China, and in 1909 returned to China as mining engineer and metallurgist of the company. He was appointed consulting mining engineer and geologist to the Kwang Si and Kwantung governments in 1910, and became managing director of the Pao Tai Mining and Smelting Co., and mining engineer and metallurgist to Pao Chang Mining Co., Canton. In 1912 he was also Commissioner of Industries and Commerce in Canton and continued to work as mining and metallurgical consultant to many companies.
Mr. Wang returned to America and was associated in New York with the Wah Chang Corporation but between 1943 and 1946 he was technical adviser to the Ministry of Economic Affairs in China. In 1946 he was appointed director of research to the National Reconditioning Co., U.S.A., and remained in New York. He held the position of research director of Wah Chang Corporation at the time of his death.
Mr. Wang was the author of books and of papers published in the technical press as well as in the Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, of which he was a Legion of Honor Member. His book entitled Antimony; its geology, metallurgy, industrial uses and economics was first published in 1909, and reached a third edition in 1952; Bibliography of the mineral wealth and geology of China appeared in 1912. His most recent work, published by the Reinhold Corporation, ‘Tungsten; its history, geology, ore-dressing, metallurgy, chemistry, analysis, applications and economics’, of which he was joint author with K.G. Li, was first published in 1947, the third edition being issued in 1955.
He was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1914.
Vol. 21, Trans IMM 1912-12, p.732
[Tientsin = Tianjin, northern China.]
