Harry Parker (1946-2019) was well known to mining and exploration geologists globally through his work as a consultant in the fields of mining geology, geological modelling and resource estimation during a long and distinguished career.

Harry passed away in 2019. Two former colleagues, Stella Searston and Larry B. Smith have produced “The Big Book of Harry“, a celebration of Harry’s life and career through stories and anecdotes from family and people that Harry studied and worked with. The book is also an enduring mark of respect for Harry as a person from those he interacted with during his career.

The book is an interesting and entertaining record of a brilliant and varied career, that the authors have allowed AIG to distribute to members.

You can download “The Big Book of Harry” here.

Harry McDougal Parker passed away on 19 December 2019 as a result of complications arising from melanoma. Harry is survived by his wife, Susan Kemper Parker, daughter Meg, son Winthrop, granddaughters Angelina, Sofia, Layla, Sadie, Ashley, and Chloe, and sister Betsy.

Harry published more than 40 technical papers over the course of his career. His wide-ranging commodity experience included Cu, Co, Au, Mo, U, coal, oil shale, Ni, Fe, Mn, platinum group elements, diamonds, K, Pb, Zn, Ag, Sn, and alumina. He worked in 17 states within the United States, eight Canadian provinces, and 35 countries outside North America. Harry was proud that he had broken a chair on every continent, except Antarctica, and this was only because “all chairs there were metal.”

Harry was a member of an impressive number of societies and professional associations, amongst them the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME), the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG), the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), the Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Materials (IMMM), and the International Association for Mathematical Geology (IAMG). Harry was registered as a professional geologist in California, Arizona, and Minnesota.

Vale Harry Parker.