Perry, Vincent D.

Vincent D. Perry (1901-1997) accepted his first professional position as an assistant engineer for the Carson Hill Gold Mines, Inc. in California in June, 1922. In September of that same year he was a member of one of the rescue teams chosen to locate the miners trapped in the Argonaut Gold Mine fire near Jackson, California. In 1924, he became a mining geologist for Anaconda Mining Company in Butte, Montana, and in 1928 he was the chief geologist for Anaconda's Cananea Consolidated Copper Company in Sonora, Mexico. Perry spent the rest of his professional life working for Anaconda. In 1957 he became vice president of the company. He retired in 1975 but continued working as a geological consultant to the company and other geologists. Perry worked throughout his career identifying the genesis of breccia pipe constructions in mineral deposits.