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Hello Everyone,
After Paul Jim posted that the Meteorite-Times was up on Thursday, I made a
number of revisions to my article about the Jim Smaller Memorial Meteorite Hunt
at Franconia. If you revisit this webpage, make sure that you click
It was interesting the way Jim Kriegh and I met Jim Smaller. We were at the
Tucson Gem Show many years ago seeing the big weekend show at the Tucson
Community Center. Jim was showing me the gold displays, and he stopped by
a wonderful display featuring an old gold mine in Colorado. Jim had
Jim was a trove of knowledge and information that will never be replaced. My
condolences go out to Sue and his family.
I first met Jim during the early era of searching the Franconia field.
We often laughed about an incident that took place during this time
period. Jim didn't have a GPS at first,
I never had the pleasure of meeting Jim Smaller but my son Devin was fortunate
to know him personally. Jim was truly one of the good guys in the meteorite
world. Devin was in the process of studying and classifying Sacramento Wash
005 and put out a list message asking for a possible donation
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