Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsEngineers, miningEducationalistsHistoryEducated in San Fransisco and graduated as a mining engineer, Rodda was subsequently employed by A.Goerz and Co. in South Africa, Tacquah and Albosso, Gold Mining Co. in West Africa and Associated Northern Bloch's Gold Mining Co. in Western Australia. Rodda then worked as a consulting engineer in the U.S. and London until 1907 when he moved permanently to Australia and was appointed General Manager of the Mungana Mines.