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 thank...

@dougie Yeah, BUT I'm a geologist rock head!!

@mark-silver I drove up to Deadwood Tuesday. The trip up I-25 wasn't much better than your experience. The old driving tip of hands at 10 and 2 ended ...

@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...

More eye candy, only this time it is not a rhodochrosite specimen, but a mineral survey corner more particularly described as: Cor. No. 4, Crackerja...

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 ...

The counties that I normally work in do not have digital archives of recorded documents that far back. I always end up in the vault in the basement of...

Here in Colorado it is not uncommon for the original location notice to be at one county courthouse and the amended location certificate in another. F...

Loyal, The title abstracts are a great way to quickly find the location certificates, affidavits of labor and other documents that are recorded at th...

The written word has its limitations, thebionicman. It is not as easy to detect hyperbole or as you put it "exaggeration for effect" in the written wo...

One of the more obscure, but nonetheless still important research document for the resurvey of mineral surveys is the Land Entry Case File (LECF). The...

I appreciate your well-reasoned posts, even when I disagree with your conclusion. Unfortunately, this is not a well-reasoned comment. Your scenario th...

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 histor...

Hey Jon. I had a hunch you might be attending. Look forward to meeting you, too, also. ?????ÿ

Advanced Topics and Case Histories in Mineral Survey Resurveys course outline:CFedS_Parrish_Kooper_PLSC_2020_Course_Materials.pdf Advanced Topics and ...

So sad to hear this news, Mike. I can only hope that under similar circumstances, I would do as you and live each day to the fullest. I'm a bit surpri...

@allen-wrench My bet is that the email address "disappeared" along with the website, not that the CFedS Program Manager decided to stop responding jus...

A good friend told me yesterday that a new "temporary" flavor of the CFedS site would soon be online. It is now up. Those needing certification renew...