WOMEN AND MINING

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 155, 29 December 1936, Page 11

WOMEN AND MINING

LOOKING FOR DEPOSITS

"There is no reason why more women should not take up mining as a career," said Miss Grace Gillespie in a recent interview with a "Dawn" representative. "One of the reasons why I chose this, work was that men seemed to be messing up my affairs! Money had been invested for me in certain mines and I seemed to be losing all the time. Still at university, I took courses in metallurgy and geology and determined to look after my own affairs." Miss Gillespie is at present in Perth making final arrangements to take an expedition to an island in King's Sound to look for mineral deposits. She has received reliable information that the deposits are there and for this reason has floated the small Great Western Mineral Development Syndicate for exploration purposes. When she returns she will promote a company and start work as soon as pos sible. Miss Gillespie, will fly to Darby and go from there by lugger to the islands. She is interested in finding iron ore and copper deposits as she considers that a lot of money will be mads in base metals in the future. Miss Gillespie supervises the work on the mine, wearing riding breeches, boots, and shirt, and she considers men work equally well under a woman's administration as a man's. Until recently Miss Gillespie was chairman of directors of the Glenespie Golden Area, No Liability, of Talbot (Victoria). Her headquarters will be in Perth for some time, but she will later return to Victoria, where she has many interests.