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*Sir Henry Ayers foundation president, 1893
*Uriah Dudley foundation general secretary 1893–1897
*David Lauder Stirling (c. 1871 – 30 August 1949); president 1894, secretary 1906–1941 or later; also secretary, Victorian Chamber of Mines 1898–1945
*H. W. Ferd Kayser (mine manager Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company), vice-president 1894, president 1898, 1899
*Alexander Montgomery (government geologist in New Zealand, Tasmania, and Western Australia), president 1895
*Ernest Lidgey geological surveyor in Victoria; conducted Australia's first geophysical surveys; president 1901
*Samuel Henry McGowan (c. 1845 – 13 May 1921), accountant specializing in gold mining companies, mayor of Bendigo 1899–1900;  president 1902
*F. Danvers Power, lecturer at Sydney University, president 1897, 1904.
*Robert C. Sticht general manager, Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company, president 1905, 1915, vice-president 1909
*G. D. Delprat (manager of the Broken Hill mine), president 1906
*Dr. Alfred William Howitt, C.M.G., F.G.S., the eminent naturalist, was president 1907
*Frank A. Moss, (general manager of Kalgurli Gold Mines), president 1907
*C. F. Courtney (general manager of the Sulphide Corporation), president 1908
*Richard Hamilton, (general manager of the Great Boulder Proprietary mine), president 1909, vice-president 1910
*G. A. Richard (of Mount Morgan, Queensland), president 1910
*Herman Carl Bellinger from US; mine manager, Cobar 1909–1914, president 1912
*James Hebbard (manager of the Central Mine, Broken Hill), president 1913
*John Warren (mining) (manager of Block 10, Broken Hill), vice-president 1894, president 1902
*Hyman Herman (director of the Victorian geological survey), joined 1897, president 1914, remained councillor to 1959.
*Robert Silvers Black, (general manager of Kalgurli Gold Mines), president 1917
*J. W. Sutherland metallurgist at Lake View Consols and Golden Horse Shoe gold mines; president 1918
*Professor D. B. Waters of Otago, New Zealand, vice-president 1917,1918 (absent for most of this period — he was with New Zealand Tunnelling Company in France).  
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*R. W. Chapman, vice-president 1906, president 1920
*Colin Fraser (later Sir Colin), president 1923
*H. W. Gepp, later Sir Herbert William Gepp, president 1924
*Ernest W. Skeats (professor of geology, University of Melbourne), vice-president 1924, president 1925
*David Lauder Stirling, general secretary 1922–45
*R. M. Murray (general manager, Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company), president 1927
*Alfred Stephen Kenyon, treasurer 1897, secretary 1906, president 1928
*E. C. Andrews (New South Wales Government Geologist), president 1929
*William Edward Wainwright (general manager of Broken Hill South), president 1919, 1930, vice-president 1916–18, 1933, 1934
*Wiliam Harley Wainwright son of W. E. Wainwright, (chief metallurgist, BHP) life member
*Essington Lewis (managing director of BHP) vice-president 1932, president 1935
*Andrew Fairweather, president 1932 (succeeded W. E. Mainwright at Broken Hill South mine and as General Manager)
*Professor J. Neill Greenwood (dean of Melbourne University Faculty of Applied Science), president 1936,1937
*Donald Yates, superintendent of Broken Hill Associated Smelters Pty., president 1937
*Julius Kruttschnitt  (general manager, Mount Isa Mines) president 1939
*Oliver H. Woodward (general manager, North Mine, Broken Hill) active in tunnelling operations WWI, president 1940
*Arthur H. P. Moline (1877–1965) (succeeded R. M. Murray as general manager, Mount Lyell, in 1944), president 1945
*Asdruebal James Keast (general manager, Zinc Corporation; Australian Aluminium Production Commission 1951–55), president 1946, vice-president 1947
*Frank R. Hockey / Francis Richard Hockey (general superintendent, BHP), president 1947, vice-president 1949,1950
*F. F. Espie / Frank Fancett Espie  (general superintendent, Western Mining Corporation), president 1948
*Godfrey Bernard O'Malley, vice-president 1943–46
*Maurice Alan Edgar Mawby (director of exploration, Zinc Corporation, Limited), vice-president 1950,1951, president 1953,1954
*Ian Munro McLennan  (General Manager, BHP), president 1951
*Beryl Elaine Jacka MBE, typist 1936; assistant general secretary 1945–52, secretary 1952–1976
*Gordon Colvin Lindesay Clark CMG