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CONTACT INFORMATION Mining Records Curator Arizona Geological Survey 416 W. Congress St., Suite 100 Tucson, Arizona 85701 520-770-3500 http://www.azgs.az.gov [email protected] The following file is part of the James Doyle Sell Mining Collection ACCESS STATEMENT These digitized collections are accessible for purposes of education and research. We have indicated what we know about copyright and rights of privacy, publicity, or trademark. Due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information. We are eager to hear from any rights owners, so that we may obtain accurate information. Upon request, we will remove material from public view while we address a rights issue. CONSTRAINTS STATEMENT The Arizona Geological Survey does not claim to control all rights for all materials in its collection. These rights include, but are not limited to: copyright, privacy rights, and cultural protection rights. The User hereby assumes all responsibility for obtaining any rights to use the material in excess of “fair use.” The Survey makes no intellectual property claims to the products created by individual authors in the manuscript collections, except when the author deeded those rights to the Survey or when those authors were employed by the State of Arizona and created intellectual products as a function of their official duties. The Survey does maintain property rights to the physical and digital representations of the works. QUALITY STATEMENT The Arizona Geological Survey is not responsible for the accuracy of the records, information, or opinions that may be contained in the files. The Survey collects, catalogs, and archives data on mineral properties regardless of its views of the veracity or accuracy of those data. A-S'n,Agi, Exploration Department May 20, 1987 R. L. Brown Vice President Mr . David N . Skillings, Jr . Skillings Mining Review First Bank- Place, Suite 728 Duluth, Minnesota 55802 Dear Sir : I am informing you herewith of the death of Mr . J . Harold Courtright, retired chief geologist of ASARCO Incorporated . His obituary is attached . Yours very truly, R . L . Brown RLB :mr Att . l ASARCO Incorporates mg 26187 SW Exploration ASARCO Incorporated 180 Maiden Lane New York, N .Y. 10038 (212) 510-2000 Telex:ITT 420585 RCA 232378 WUI 62522 Cables : MINEDEPART Telegrams : WU1-25991 V J ()"RTTTTARV J . Harold Courtright J . Harold Courtright, 78, died peacefully in his sleep on December 7, 1986, at home in Tucson, Arizona . Harold is survived by his wife Vi and their sons, James and Timothy . Born in Yakima, Washington, Harold studied at Sacramento (CA) City College and MacKay School of Mines, Reno, Nevada . In 1941, he joined Consolidated Copper Mines Corporation as a geologist in the Ely, Nevada district . Harold joined ASARCO Incorporated in 1945, and remained through to his retirement at age 70 . At that time Harold was chief exploration geologist, and remained as consulting geologist in the Asarco Tucson Office . Courtright participated in the discovery of economic mineral deposits in many areas, including Leadville, Colorado ; Silver Bell and Mission, Arizona ; Toquepala, Cuajone and Michiquillay, Peru and Bethleham, British Columbia . His travels and work with Asarco took him to most of the continents . Harold was a member of AIME, Arizona Geological Society (Charter Member and President), Society of Economic Geologists, Geological Society of America, and a charter member of the Mining Club of the Southwest . Contributions to Harold ' s memory may be made to the J . Harold Courtright Memorial Fund , c/o Arizona Geological Society, P .O . Box 40952 , University Station , Tucson , Arizona 85717 . The fund is established to suppot research and field work as exemplified by Harold's life and work . M J . D. SELL 5/11/87 Byron Hardie Attached are the obituary notices on J . Harold Courtright . rJ P PAGE 8-MAY 30, 1987-SKILLINGS' MINING REVIEW .1 . ram JUN 6 1987 P.O. Box 625002 MEN 0 Littleton, CO 80162-5002 303-973-9550 FAX 303-973-3845 ENGUNEERING Telex 881988 June 5, 1987 Mr . R . L . Brown Asarco, Inc . 180 Maiden Lane New York, . NY 10038 Dear Mr . Brown : Thank you for sending us the appreciation of J . Harold Courtright, We plan to use it in a forthcoming issue of MINING ENGINEERING and will send you a tearsheet after it has been published . I don't anticipate any problem in giving credit to the Exploration Department and Kenyon Richard for writing the piece . Sincerely, Beth Drobniewski Assistant Editor /bd ASARCO Incorporated JUN 1 1 i987 SW Exploration r~ - r c Society of Mining Engineers, Inc. A Member Society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers I~r r ( .r r~~r i~, it V nl nvr_11 P l5_, pp Ir ;ri- 1660 SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS Walden P . Pratt, Editor for SEG Activities € U .S . Geological Survey-Mail Stop 905 Box 25046, Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 Telephone (303) 236-5598 Notes and News Notes and news of personal interest about SEG Lacana Mining Corporation, from which he retired as Pres- members, as well as announcements of upcoming meet- ident in 1986 . ings, are not only invited but eagerly solicited for the SEG pages . However, please bear in mind that there is a built-in The Society regrets to report the death of J . Harold minimum lag of about two months from date of submittal Courtright, SEG 1952, on December 7, 1986 . He had to date of publication .-WPP retired in 1977 as Chief Geologist of Asarco, Inc ., but Robert J . Wright , SEG 1951, has retired as Senior served actively as a consultant to Asarco until his death . Technical Advisor, Division of Waste Management, U . S . As reported by his colleagues, Harold Courtright will be Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D . C ., and chiefly remembered in connection with his work with por- has moved to Princeton, New Jersey . He is active as a phyry copper systems . His consultant in management of high-level radioactive waste . first formal professional ap- Jack E . Harrison , SEG 1958, retired in Denver in pointment, which followed December 1986 after a 35-year career with the U . S . perhaps 15 years of on-and-off Geological Survey. Harrison initiated the U . S . G . S . pro- work as a miner, was with the gram of geologic mapping of 1€ X 2€ quadrangles, and in Consolidated Copper Corpo- recent years, concentrated on the stratigraphy and geo- ration at Kimberly, Nevada, chemistry of the Belt basin, resource appraisals of the where he first teamed up with strata-bound copper-silver sulfide deposits, and regional Kenyon Richard . The two men tectonics of the Belt basin, an effort which he is continuing moved over to Asarco in in semiretirement . He received the Department of Interior 1945, and their work with Distinguished Service Award in 1979 . Asarco went far toward put- As reported in these pages in the August issue, Wil- J. Harold Courtright ting that company into the liam H . Gross , SEG 1962, died suddenly in Toronto on copper mining business in a substantial way . Harold's ap- August 6, 1987 . Gross combined an active consulting proach to geology and to exploration revolved simply career with teaching at the University of Toronto from around careful mapping . In the case of the porphyries . this 1950 to 1968, and then turned his full attention to mineral mapping emphasized evaluation of alteration suites and exploration . Among other ventures, his work resulted in leached outcrops ; his knowledge of gossans was remark- the discovery of a major silver deposit in the Guanajuato able . Harold and Kenyon did most of the geologic work area of Mexico, and this in turn led to the creation of the associated with the discovery and development of Silver 1659 ; i SOGIE7 Y of Ect)NOi fIC GEOLOGISTS 1660 Bell, Mission, Toquepala, Bethlehem, Cuajone, and other copper in most of the countries where these ores may be . A list of discoveries resulting from this work in- .deposits . Later, enlisting the services of a group of found younger men willing and able to map and to reason up to cludes Michiquilay, Sacaton, Casa Grande Santa Cruz, La his standards, Courtright directed the search for porphyry Caridad, and other deposits . .I RECEIVED SPONSOR =-- _ - CIRCLE 5 ON READER SERVICE CARD 0 1 C J . HAROLD COURTRIGHT 1908-1986 t FRIENDS : YOU WILL AGREE -- TO HAVE KNOWN HAROLD WAS AN EXPERIENCE IN A VAST NUMBER OF ASPECTS . HAROLD THE GENTLEMAN -- THE OBSERVER -- THE HELPER -- THE TUTOR --AND THE FRIEND : TO NAME ONLY A FEW OF HIS MULTIPLE CHARACTERISTICS . I FIRST MET HAROLD, AND A NUMBER OF OTHER GEOLOGISTS GATHERED HERE TODAY, AT THE ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING BEING HELD AT BUFFINS CAFETERIA AT BROADWAY AND TUCSON BLVD, WHERE THE SECONDARY ATTRACTION WAS THE CAFETERIA MOTTO OF "ALL YOU CAN EAT," IT SO HAPPENED THAT THE CAFETERIA SOON WENT OUT OF BUSINESS AND I SUSPECT IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE LIKES OF US UNDERGROUND MINE GEOLOGISTS FROM SUPERIOR WHO REALLY PILED UP THEIR PLATES, RATHER THAN THE MORE EXPERIENCED AND REASONABLE GROUP OF WHICH HAROLD WAS A PART, A TRAIT THAT SINGLED OUT HAROLD, WHETHER AT THE AGS MEETING, OR ON A FIELD TRIP, OR WHEREVER, WAS HIS QUIET WAY OF ASKING THE PERTINENT QUESTION IN JUST THE RIGHT MANNER TO SECURE A LONG DISCOURSE ON THE SUBJECT BY THE PERSON INVOLVED, ANSWERS THAT MINE MANAGERS WOULD PROBABLY SHUTTER AT SHOULD THEY HAVE BEEN WITHIN HEARING RANGE . IN THOSE EARLY YEARS DON HAMMER AND I ROUNDED UP THE CENTRAL ARIZONA GEOLOGY DISCUSSION GROUP BY COLLECTING THOSE INTERESTED FROM THE SUPERIOR-MIAMI-GLOBE-CHRISTMAS-RAY AREAS . THE SPEAKERS WERE MOSTLY FROM THESE LOCAL OPERATIONS, BUT WE WERE EAGER TO EXPAND OUR KNOWLEDGE, OF COURSE, THE AGS MEETINGS HELPED THAT ASPECT, BUT WITH A TWO HUNDRED MILE ROUND TRIP FACING US IT WAS NOT ALWAYS A MONTHLY EVENT FOR US OUT-OF-TOWNERS .

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