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...mining methods used at present are simple and relaxed, returning considerable pleasure and a very few diamonds to tourists who pay $1.50 for a day's digging. Last year 65,000, including kids at 50? per head, slopped through the muddy gullies. Many of them, says State Geologist Norman F. Williams, "are little old ladies who might be in their flower beds. They come dressed to kill and end up taking off their shoes, hiking up their skirts and wading in the mud." Women get the most excitement. Some of them shriek or faint when they find a tiny...
...seems to be to curl up with a good book. Perusing the Greek classics and pinpointing their references. Italian Entrepreneur Jean-Baptiste Serpieri in 1864 rediscovered the ancient mines of Laurium near Athens, from which the classical Athenians extracted their wealth and the lead needed to build their fleet. Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther located copper on Cyprus by reading Latin manuscripts. The latest to cash in on the classics is a short, stocky Greek named Alexander Xenarios, who spent 30 years roaming Greece and making minor finds before he hit the jackpot: a deposit in northern Greece's Chalcidice...
Petersen is currently chief geologist with the Cerro de Pasco Corporation and has written extensively on the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile...
Ulrich Petersen, a mineralogist and mining geologist from La Oroya, Peru, will join the Faculty July 1 as lecturer on geology...
...color is important to Oil Geologist D. Harold ("Dry Hole") Byrd, in whose two-acre Dallas garden Watson was putting the finishing touches on a $16,200 installation. The color is red. "See those three purple beeches," said Byrd to a visitor. "While the moonlight's going, I can throw a switch, and a series of powerful red lights plays on those tree trunks. I know Watson didn't care much for it. But I like red." Mr. Byrd's sharp eyes grew pensive. He said: "I'm trying to figure out some way to have...