On Dec 27, 2007, at 7:16 AM, R.C.Macaulay wrote:
Howdy Vorts,
Interesting to Google Earth view of Nondalton Alaska, the town
near the location of a huge new gold and copper mining site. A
closeup view of the bay adjacent to the town indicates some barely
discernible rectangular lines in the shallows can be seen. The
geology and the shape of Alaska is fascinating considering the
supposed history of the migration of Siberians to the new world
across a land bridge now named the Aleutians. Could it be that
certain earth land shapes could be used to locate potential
minerals near the surface?
That could well be, and certainly is the case when spectroscopic
images are used, but I think the pattern you see on google earth is
the google background copyright protection pattern that becomes
visible when superimposed over still water surfaces.
We have a resident ole time gold prospector sitting at the bar at
the Dime Box that is just hankering to know.
Richard
An old acquaintance of mine had an interesting scheme for hunting
minerals. He sniffed out trace metals from flowing water, and worked
his way back upstream. The instrumentation of the day wasn't good
enough for it to work well, certainly with gold, but maybe it would
work today. You may have heard of him in another light. Some of
his remains are now at rest on the moon. His name is Gene Shoemaker.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
