Field Shots


Hansonburg Mining District, Bingham, NM - 1999

 

Research Group in the Royal Flush Mine

The Upper Mex-Tex Mine entrance

Collecting Fluorite for REE analyses, Desert Rose Mine

A 2 m wide solution pocket lined with linarite,
aurichalcite, brochantite and fluorite.

Oryx, White Sands Missal Range, Bingham, NM

 


Antarctica 2000-2001

Building an igloo on the Ross Ice Shelf.

Taylor Glacier flowing into Lake Joyce with dolerite sill in background

Helo drop in the Pearse Valley, Asgard Mountains

Drilling through 7 m of ice on lake Miers

Adams Glacier, Miers Valley

Looking up the Taylor Valley from the Asgard Mountains

Adelie Penguins off of Ross Island

Joseph, Bonny, John, Sylvia, Vince,
Chad, Monica, Elizabeth
Pearse Valley, Asgard Mountains

Happy Campers

 

Mt. Fuji, Japan - 2002

Mt. Fuji from Gotemba

John, Monica, Liz and Dave

 

Climbing Fuji with Mickey

Wood block print of Fuji by Toshi Yoshida (c. 1964) showing the 1707 crater.

 

Rio Grande Rift Deposits, NM - 2003

Organ Mountains

left) Fred Partey sampling at the Gonzales prospect, Socorro CO., NM right) Fluorite and barite, Gonzales Prospect

left) Sample collecting in the Sunshine #1 Mine, Hansonburg Dist., Bingham, NM right) Fluorite

left) Lizard, Lemitar Mt. right) Bleached earless lizard, White Sands National Monument

left) Kilbourne Hole, a maar volcano, Southern New Mexico right) Satellite view

Fluorite manto, Nakaye Deposits, Caballo Mts., NM

Black Messa, Jornada del muerto, NM

Ray DeMark, Sunshine #1 Mine, Hansonburg Dist., Bingham, NM

Japan Alps- 2005/06

 

left) Shirouma-Dake right) Mizuho, Kaiko, and John Hakuba Dai Sekei

left) Northern Japan Alps right) Tateyama

Yarigatake

left) Son of Yarigatake at sun rise right) Yarigatake at sun rise

 

left) Yarigatake at sun rise right) Takamagahara Onsen

 

left) Kaz, Yukari, Monica and John, Tateyama right) John & Monica

 

BIG Tent

 

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