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Just another reason to love working in the #mining industry - the incredible views! 😍🏔️ #ifitcantbegrownitmustbemined #beautifulbritishcolumbia
As far as scenic drill locations go, this is a winner! Picture of the diamond drill working on Strikepoints Porter Idaho Project near Stewart in British Columbia, targeting high grade silver veins.
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Rock crystal vase found at the Minoan Palace of Zakros, Crete. Dated to 1500-1450 BCE. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.
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I know lots of young people asking about careers in the geosciences. Looks like this free event is worth a peek! 👇🏼
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"It Ain't Easy Being Greenland" Lovely map by @pokateo_. I'm sure my old mate Kermit would love this one too. Source: buff.ly/3X7w3Qf
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The highest recorded volcanic plume came from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption in in January 2022 with a height of 57 km (35 miles). That's your bit of #geology trivia for today... Source: buff.ly/3g7ehvX
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exactly the situation when you get excited by the outcrop and stop paying attention where the drone is flying 🙈🙈🙈🤣
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Robert Hockett discusses the ways of solving collective action challenges in a variety of domains, such as farming, energy transition, finance, economic restructuring, and others: "...mass productive renewal – is job one for our country over the next decade at least."
My latest in Forbes argues that we must revive the old practice of maintaining strategic stockpiles of all essential inputs to production and even some critical products. The reasons, all urgent right now, are both economic and geopolitical.
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Spectacular quartz ribbon with undulose extinction and sub-grain development, compliments of #GEOL30002 and me 🤩 #Mylonite #geology #ThinSectionThursday
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Quartz-mylonites from the Pyrenees showing a strong LPO and lots of sense of shear indicators for this #ThinSectionThursday
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Pseudotachylite injection veins and their corresponding generation surface, from the Richard H. Sibson’s collection at Mainz University!
A late but wonderful #ThinSectionThursday
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I do so 💚the origin stories that make 100% employee-owned @BobsRedMill such a successful role model for rebuilding our industrial base in the Information Age. #YankeeIngenuity & #SelflessDevotion to the mission! bobsredmill.com/bobs-way/mee…
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Pumice rock outcrop formed when lava came into contact with water, near the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
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A Hercules #RocketScientist we can all be proud of:
My Friend the Rocket Scientist – Lynton Scotland @lynton24 of St. Joseph - Dominica News Online dominicanewsonline.com/news/…
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#ThinSectionThursday A lovely crenulated tremolite-fuchsite schist which formed at the contact between serpentinite and quartzofeldspathic schist at Muddy Creek, northwest Otago, New Zealand. (FOV~4mm, XPL, PPL).
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Recrystallized aggregates of olivine xenocrysts in kimberlite from the Monte Carmelo region, MG, Brazil. Contribution by the researcher Marco Aurélio Pinheiro from @CPRM_Oficial. #ThinSectionThursday #Petrochronics
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The Pride of America Marble Quarry has supplied marble for our nation’s finest monuments like the Lincoln Memorial.
I was glad to tour it yesterday and learn more about how sustainable resource extraction like this is an important part of the Western Slope’s heritage and future.
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#Lytton, BC, home of sedimentary #Turbidite Jelly Roll before it became emblem of climate change. | Pacific Museum of Earth. pme.ubc.ca/exhibitions/jelly…