Geo Gold Emmons

Comments, articles and interesting items on geology and gold exploration. Interesting travel sites for geologists and mining enthusiasts. By a retired exploration geologist.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Pacific: Simon Winchester's New Collection of Essays on Geology, Colonies Lost, Nature and Wars

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 The UK's Simon Winchester, 72-year old best selling author, has recently released a new book about natural and human-caused events t...
Friday, November 4, 2016

The Cascade Volcanoes as seen in Satellite Images

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The Cascade volcanoes are a fantastic result of plates tectonics.  Seven of the volcanoes have erupted in the last 200 years and three of...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Corkscrew Mtn, Toroda Creek Graben, Washington

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Corkscrew Mountain is an interesting geological formation composed of Tertiary basalt flows in northern Washington.  It is located 2.5 miles...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Borate Mining in Death Valley, California: 1960's to 2005

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My first job out of college was in Death Valley.  I graduated from San Diego State University in August 1974 with a Bachelor of Science de...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Borneo: A Photo Tour of Artisanal Gold Mining in 1993

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In 1993, I visited the Pangkut area of Borneo (Kalimantan, Indonesia) to examine the gold potential for the mining and exploration company ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Archie's Rule of Thumb for Mineral Deposit Economics

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Archibald M. Bell (1906 - 1991) was a mining geologist and long time VP of Exploration for Noranda.  Later he was a successful consulting g...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

The Pink and White Terraces of Lake Rotomahana, NZ

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Greetings from Texas , On April 26, 2016, Robin Wylie of the BBC posted an interesting story on the web about the rediscovery of the Pink ...
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Retired exploration geologist that worked from 1974 to 2015 in gold exploration and mining, industrial minerals, and metals.
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