Sir Laurence Charles Brodie-Hall Ao Cmg

  General Notes:

Geologist with WMC 1948

General Superintendent WA operations 1958-67

Executive Director WMC WA 1967-75



Chairman Central Norseman Gold, Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie and other companies



President of WA Chamber of Mines, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Chairman of WA School of Mines Board of Management



Awarded Geoffrey J Stokes Memorial award for 77-year involvement in mining industry at July 2004 Diggers and Dealers Conference (Kalgoorlie)



Inducted into Australian Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame (Kalgoorlie) 2002



See http://announce.curtin.edu.au/release2002/c9502.html

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Mining Engineer and metallurgist.

• Religion: NSW 1924, WA 1927.

Laurence married Jean Slatyer Oam, daughter of Thomas Henry (Harry) Slatyer and Jean Estelle McKenzie, on 28 Jul 1979. (Jean Slatyer Oam was born on 15 Aug 1925 in Rockhampton, Queensland Australia.)

Laurence next married Dorothy Jolly. (Dorothy Jolly was born in 1920 in Perth, Western Australia.)