J. W. Sutherland

John Waters Sutherland (16 August 1870 – 27 September 1946) was a mining engineer and metallurgist in Western Australia.

History Sutherland was born in Scotchmans Lead, Victoria, a son of miner John Sutherland and his wife Wilhelmina Sutherland, née Waters. when he went to Ballarat to study mining chemistry at the School of Mines where Andrew Berry was Registrar. On graduation as an assayer and metallurgist left for Broken Hill, where he served the Broken Hill Proprietary as assayer from 1889 to 1894 and metallurgist from 1894 to 1896. He then worked in Western Australia as metallurgist for Lake View Consols under General Manager H. G. Callahan, already in use in Queensland in the extraction of sugar from macerated cane. The filter press was adopted by other mines, and continued to be used until supplanted around 1930 by the less labor-intensive Oliver filter. While manager of Golden Horseshoe Estates Ltd. he was mentor to up-and-coming metallurgists at the Kalgoorlie School of Mines, with whom he developed techniques for treating gold tellurides.

Sutherland never married. He died in a private hospital at the age of 76 years; his remains were buried at the Karrakatta cemetery, Western Australia.

Other interests He was a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers and its president in 1918 In 1901 Sutherland was elected to the executive, Chamber of Mines of Western Australia and a vice-president in 1902. He was made an honorary member in 1930. He was a member of the Hannan's Club and a Freemason.