Robert Allen
From Engineering Heritage Western Australia
ALLEN, Robert MA(Cantab) BSc(Lond) MIMM
A graduate of Cambridge and London Universities, Allen was a partner of G.G. Gifford (q.v.) in Graves Gifford & Company in 1896, and metallurgist at the Westralia Mount Morgans Gold Mines Co. Ltd (MMGF, Mt. Morgans) in 1904. In a series of articles in the Journal of the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia he described many of the ore treatment plants of major mines in Western Australia which included:
- Ivanhoe Gold Mine 1905, pp. 294 306;
- Oroya Brown Hill Gold Mine 1905, pp. 628 36;
- Associated Northern Gold Mine 1905, pp. 751 58;
- Sons of Gwalia Gold Mine 1905, pp. 808 17; and
- Great Boulder Perseverance Gold Mine 1905, pp. 934 43.
References:
WAGFC Jul 1896;
JCMWA 1905
