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Last week Agustín finally turned the stone over to a government geologist in Ciudad Bolivar. The expert weighed and measured, tested and probed. At length he announced that the Evangelist was 698 carats-of almost pure iron...
During the summer of 1954, Barghoorn, with two geologist colleagues, uncovered the oldest coal deposits yet discovered. The age of the coal, pre-Cambrian, is of great geological interest as it carries back the fossil record of plant life to over a billion years...
Lawyers in the Bush. Long before Joe Hirshhorn got interested in the Blind River area, geologists knew that there was radioactivity there. But most thought it came from thorium, because the outcrops yielded little uranium ore. Geologist Franc R. Joubin, who was working as a private consultant in the area, thought differently; he believed that oxidation of the outcrops had leached away their uranium content, but that underneath there lay a treasure trove of uranium ore. Joubin told Joe Hirshhorn his theory, and Hirshhorn agreed, with associates, to put up $30,000 in 1953 to take core samples...
...luck. They found the sulphur, and now own Gulf Sulphur Corp., plus an exploration outfit called Amican Sulphur Co., S.A., and have sizeable stock interests in both Pan American and Mexican Gulf Sulphur. Working as a team, brothers Lawrence and Bill run the administrative end; Ashton is the geologist...
...accomplishments, Kimpton realizes that the University of Chicago has lost much of the experimental glamour of the Hutchins era. Nor has he been able to replace such men as Physicist Enrico Fermi, who died last November, Psychologist Louis Thurstone and Sociologist Ernest Burgess, who retired, or Chemist Harrison Brown, Geologist F. J. Pettijohn and Physiologist Ralph Gerard, all of whom have gone elsewhere. Will Chicago ever again become as exciting a place as it used to be? The danger is, says Kimpton, "that you get so used to thinking in terms of retrenchment that you lose any imaginative flair." Kimpton...