Wild Places: The Adventures of an Exploration Geologist
Language: English
Published by Castle Mt. Books, 2015
- Hardcover
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Seller: Three Hills Books, Three Hills, AB, CanadaThree Hills Books
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Gentle bumps on board corners with some light scuffing on pictorial boards. Very slight soiling on page edge.: 456 pages.
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- Title
- Wild Places: The Adventures of an Exploration Geologist
- Author
- Linder, Harold
- Publisher
- Castle Mt. Books
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 097527984X
- ISBN 13
- 9780975279847
- Seller catalogs
- Science, Philosophy, & Math
This is a story, based on the author's diary, of commuting to work by canoe and snowshoe in northern Canada and by helicopter in Alaska; of following wombat trails in the rainforests of Tasmania; of bear encounters in the Yukon; bush plane crashes in British Columbia; prospecting in the Mojave Desert of California and going where no man has gone before in Antarctica.
You will read about his adventures on an Antarctic expedition to the Transantarctic Mountains and the Ross Ice Shelf in 1961-1962. He describes being weather-bound by whiteout conditions in a small two-man tent only a few hundred miles from the South Pole and the dangers of crossing unknown crevasse fields. You will learn about prospecting and mineral exploration and the detailed history of two major discoveries that he made as a consulting geologist. In 1968 he discovered the still-unmined giant copper-molybdenum deposit at Schaft Creek, British Columbia, in a rugged, mountainous area of northern Canada so remote it is accessible only by bush plane.
In 1986 he discovered the world-class Castle Mountain gold deposit in the Mojave Desert of southern California. It was the culmination of a life in exploration and he achieved the goal of every exploration geologist: to discover a major mineral deposit and stay with it all the way to production. The Castle Mountain mine was permitted after much difficulty and produced more than 1,250,000 ounces of gold between 1992 and 2001.
This book records the seldom-heard experiences and views of a mineral exploration geologist, whose knowledge of wild places certainly deserves equal consideration with that of environmentalists. Many of the wild areas where Dr. Linder explored are now withdrawn from mineral exploration and mining. The encroachments of civilization, government land withdrawals and bureaucratic regulations threaten mineral exploration and mining. The wilderness prospector seems destined to go the way of the early explorers and trappers, never to return.
Come back into the real wilderness with Harold Linder and stay a while.
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