Anyone Planning to South Dakota Society of Professional Land Surveyors Conference, January 5-7, 2022
The SDSPLS 39th Annual Convention is being held January 5-7, 2022 at The Lodge in Deadwood, SD. I was invited to give a presentation on a mineral survey case history (Wednesday afternoon). Here is a PDF of the session descriptions and presenter biographies.
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I am looking forward to meeting some of the SurveyorConnect folks there.
Looks like a great program, not sure I could get th higher ups to send me. There's some great things being presented, and yours is particularly interesting.?ÿ
Yes. I look forward to meeting you and hearing your presentation.
I can highly recommend all of Gene's presentations. Although I haven't attended as many as I would have liked to, he always presents a LOT of valuable information and insights. Even if you don't plan on ever retracing a US Mineral Survey, there will be a lot of information presented that applies to the research and analysis involved in finding and evaluating "ancient" monuments and the Corners that they represent.
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Yes. I look forward to meeting you and hearing your presentation.
Hey Jon. I had a hunch you might be attending. Look forward to meeting you, too, also. ?????ÿ
Thanks for the kind words, Loyal. This talk will be different from my other mineral survey talks. The sole topic of this presentation is a case history of the Sweet Home Mine property. All my previous talks concentrated on the principles of mineral survey resurveys with "case histories" sprinkled in to illustrate the principles.
The other great thing about speaking in Deadwood is I get to visit my father who lives about halfway between Denver and Deadwood. He turns 100 in March so every visit is precious.
For those that wonder why I have spent so much time on the boundary survey of the Sweet Home Mining Group of 19 lode mining claims, it is simple. The "pretty red rocks" that come out of the Sweet Home Mine are actually quite valuable. Here is a lesser example of the quality of beautiful ruby-red jello rhodochrosite rhombohedrons from the Sweet Home Mine, Detroit City Portal. Rhodochrosite also happens to be the Colorado State Mineral.
Rhodochrosite with quartz, tetrahedrite and pyrite....photo taken just before it was trimmed for aesthetics and cleaned, approx. 10 ins. in length. The beauty of this "rock" is that it is all natural. Mother Nature's wondrous art!!
More eye candy, only this time it is not a rhodochrosite specimen, but a mineral survey corner more particularly described as:
Cor. No. 4, Crackerjack Lode Claim, Sur. No. 20504; a quartz monzonite porphyry with 1 to 3 cm long phenocrysts of Carlsbad-twinned orthoclase in a fine-grained ground mass consisting predominately of quartz, orthoclase, and plagioclase (oligoclase to andesine) and minor biotite.
The corner stone is 24" x 9" protruding 10" above ground with mound of stone; south face chiseled with "4-C-20504-A"; and the corner location is a chiseled "X" on the top of stone. Original call is for a porphyry stone 24" x 24" x 9"
Looks like your kinda over by Mosquito Pass....
I miss living in Fairplay, and then again, I don't.
@jitterboogie You are close. My work is one drainage north in Buckskin Gulch.
Here is a photo of Alma with Mt. Bross in the background. The southerly of the two cloud shadows is a pretty good approximation of the portion of my client's property on the easterly dip slope of Mt. Bross. I've wandered all over that area.
I lived on the corner of the houses that were the only ones built in the 2007 development debacle.
Can't say I miss the wind and snow In Winter, but the views are best in the world.
If you bump into Tom B tell him I say hello!
I'll stop by when I'm through there again soon too.
beautiful ruby-red jello rhodochrosite rhombohedrons
You could've just said eye-candy
@dougie Yeah, BUT I'm a geologist rock head!!
I just got back from Deadwood. I had a great time with approx. 190 of our peers.
@jon-collins Thank you for your hospitality. Please pass on my thanks to the SDSPLS members.
One of the folks I had the distinct pleasure to meet was Don Simons, U.S. Mineral Surveyor (ret.). Many tall tales were told the last three days. In addition to surveying, esp. mineral surveying, we chatted at length about cattle ranching.