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Showing posts with label gold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gold. Show all posts
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Yeah, I'm Rather Dense Too...A Weighty Matter in Mineralogy

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All that glitters is not gold...and even if it is gold, there's no way I would pass a large nugget of it around the lab, no matter the t...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

A Priceless Collection of Minerals: To see, or not to see

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I was in the field yesterday with my students, and one of our stops was at the California State Mining and Mineral Museum in Mariposa at the...
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Monday, July 5, 2010

Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater: The Serpentine Issue in California

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State senator Gloria Romero, defending her sponsorship of a bill ( SB 624 ) to remove serpentine as the state rock of California, was quoted...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Musings on Gold...GOLD! Buy GOLD! The World is Going to End Anyway

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It seems like gold has been appearing everywhere of late, especially in those late-night commercials that ask you to pick up any loose gold...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

50 Minerals one must see....a geologic meme (and me too!)

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Jumping on the bandwagon, here are the 50 minerals from Chuck's list that I have seen (See Lounge of the Lab Lemming and others here , ...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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