Harry received his BSc in. Geology with departmental honors from Stanford University in 1967, followed by his AM in Geology from Harvard University in 1969. Between 1965 and 1975 he worked as an Exploration and Staff Geologist for the Hanna Mining Company, focusing on exploration for nickel laterites, nickel-copper-cobalt sulfide deposits, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, and Mississippi Valley-type zinc deposits. While working for Hanna, he obtained his MSc in Statistics in 1974 and his PhD in Geology in 1975 from Stanford University.

From 1975 through 1989, Harry served as a Mining Geologist and Geostatistician for Fluor Corporation, based in San Mateo, California. During his tenure at Fluor he was involved in a wide variety of consulting assignments on six continents that focused on coal, uranium, copper, and gold deposits and the development of state-of-the art geostatistical and mine planning software. He was a member of the first US mining delegation to China in 1977, which led to work on major Chinese copper and coal deposits, including the world-class Dexing porphyry copper deposits in Jiangxi Province.

From 1989 to the present, Harry has been Technical Director of AMEC and its predecessor firms (MRDI, H.A. Simons, and Agra), and has been actively involved in the resource modeling of copper, molybdenum, gold, zinc, iron, silver, nickel, and PGE deposits worldwide including major operations such as Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon (Utah), Lihir (Papua New Guinea) and Greens Creek (Alaska), Barrick’s Goldstrike (Nevada), the Fort Knox operation (Alaska) now operated by Kinross, and the Antamina operation (Peru) owned by BHP Billiton, Xstrata, and Teck Cominco. He has trained operations staff and implemented computer-based orebody and resource modeling systems on the Zambian Copperbelt in Africa, and has led or advised teams responsible for providing Competent Person’s reports in connection with the change in ownership of major mining assets around the world, including St Joe Minerals, Ashanti Gold Fields, ZCCM, CVRD, and DeBeers.

Harry is a Professional Geologist (California, Arizona), a Chartered Professional Geologist and Fellow of the Australasian Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), an Honorary Life Member of the Geostatistical Association of Australasia, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Registered Member Admissions Committee of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME), as Co-chairman of the SME Resources and Reserves Committee, and is a U.S. representative on the International Committee for Resources and Reserves Reporting. He is the author of numerous published technical papers. Harry currently resides in Incline Village, Nevada, with his wife Susan.

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