This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Howard, Thanks for your reply. I have the Sabina book on the Bancroft area, as well as most of her Min. Rec publications. The Sabina book in my want list is, in fact, out of print, but it covers the area north of Bancroft. In particular, the older book on…
#Help! Books Needed
Message #175836
Hello All! To prepare for our annual pilgrimage to Bancroft, I am looking for the following books and resource materials. I am willing to buy them or trade other books for them. If they are in the public domain, then I'd be willing to pay for photocopy charges to obtain…
Michael, The article of which I spoke, which was by Lance Kearns in the magazine Rocks and Minerals, had the telephone number of the Morehead Mine. It probably also gave directions to this fee collecting site. I am looking forward again to getting down to that corner of Virginia myself…
Michael, I haven't collected much in Virginia, but one of the first places I collected as an adult was in Amelia, Virginia. It's about an hour and half drive from Richmond, as I recall. There is a fee collecting pegmatite site just outside Amelia, which was written up in a…
Doug, Tick Canyon. There's a wide shoulder on Davenport Road, from which there is a path north to the remains of the Sterling Mine. The foundation of the mill is about 400 meters north of the road. As soon as you get out of your car, you will see borates…
Bill, As you will see from my other email to you, I got a recording telling me that Santa Clarita Canyon Rd was closed, but it said nothing re the Pacoima Cyn Rd's closure. I was confused, and couldn't reach you by phone, so I chose another collecting site. I…
Bill, Thanks for checking out the accessibility of Pacoima Canyon for me. I had placed a call to the Rangers Station at the number in the Rocks and minerals article, but got a recording (at 4:15pm local time!). The recording suggested that the camp sites were open, which info I…
#Rock Clubs On-Line
Message #170633
Doug, The Princess Pat Mine sounds as if it would be worth the substantial drive from LA, but alas I had only a short afternoon to collect. I went to the Sterlin Mine in Tick Canyon to look for fluorescent borates and check out the basalt sill for zeolites. I…
Congratulations Doug! I think that the FMS is lucky to have you bring your energy and tech know-how to the UV Waves. Nathan
Chris, I collect, among other things, radioactive minerals, mostly from the Bancroft-Madawaska area of Ontario, Canada. I have some betafite crystals from the Silver Crater Mine, and some uraninite crystals from a nearby outcrop. Most of my other specimens from the region are micromounts. Can you be more specific about…
Bill, I have ranted and raved at the membership chairman of the Delaware Valley Earth Science Science (Woodbury, NJ) to list members' email addresses in the club's directory. So far no luck. I am the corresponding secretary of the D.V.E.S.S., and you can reach me at this CIS address, or…
Al, Thanks for the comments on independent contractor versus employee status and its bearing on ownership of intellectual property developed during the course of the relationship. The situation in publishing is a little different in that it is customary for the publisher to receive, explicitly or implicitly, an exclusive license.…
Rod, I did look over the material you sent me; it was very helpful in identifying some of the materials I collected. The map in Shannon's article reveals that I was closer to the prime collecting sites than I realized in the early morning foul weather. Some of the vesicular…
Howard, You can't be too rich, too thin, have too much RAM or ROM, or have too many micromount boxes. These critters are available from a company called Althor Corp. and from David Shannon Minerals. The ones from Shannon are better made. They are available in clear bottoms and tops,…
Linda, As an after thought to my last message, I realized that I may have done some collecting within the 400 mile radius of which you spoke. I collected zeolites and wire pyrites at Sugar Grove, West Virginia (Pendleton County). This locality was written up in a recent issue of…
Linda, There are lots of ways of getting more involved in field collecting. Perhpas the easiest is to find people in your area who are knowledgeable and who are willing to share info with you. Try the yellow pages to see whether there are any rock shops near you. The…
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#Arizona Rockhounding
Message #165659
Hi Guy! David Shannon probably is hanging out around Tucson right now, but normally he can be found at: David Shannon 6649 E. Rustic Dr. Mesa, AZ 85215 602-985-0557 He is selling the Russian Geiger-Muller counters with LCD displays for $37.50, which is great even if the instruction manual is…
Lanny, I concur in your sentiments about CIS versus Internet. The internet is big, and looks disorganized at first. After I began to learn my way around, it seemed rather foolish that I paid to download various programs from CIS libraries, when the programs are freely FTPable from many servers…
John, David Shannon is the proprietor of David Shannon Minerals, 6649 E. Rustic Drive, Mesa, Arizone 85215. Telephone No. 602-985-0557. Shannon may sell some fossils, but he's mainly known for minerals. He also is my principal source for micromount and thumbnail cases, "mintack," white paper fold up boxes, etc., which…
#Arizona Rockhounding
Message #165389
Rod, Thanks for the Shannon article on Horshoe Dam. I tried valiantly in the rain to get up to the collecting site, but heavy rain filled the washes and made passin a geiger counter (NOT, but it sounds like fun ). Thanks, Guy
Chris, That McPhee fellow–his friends just call him John. Nathan
Doug, As I understand these electronic cameras (e-cameras ?), you can transfer the image files to your hard drive or syquest or whatever for storage, so the size of the files is not a big deal–until you try to integrate them into an image base. Nathan
John, David Shannon's recent mineral list has a Nikon 12-60x zoom, with light supply, for about $700. The scope is in as new condition. That's about a good deal as I have seen. I have a B & L zoom stereo with light source that I paid $600 for, three…
Robert, Sure, I can give you some info on Voicenet. Their address is 17 Richard Road, Ivyland, PA 18974. Telephone: 215-674-9290. They had an 800 number for sales, but I have misplaced it. In any event, they have several dialup nodes in the Delaware Valley area, from Reading to Philadelphia…
Hi Rod! I now have to leave today for Phoenix, so the snail mail won't get to me in time. I will try to telephone you today. I have your numbers, I believe, from the FMS directory. Thanks for your help. Nathan
#Arizona Rockhounding
Message #164392
Since my last message and cry for help, I have found some references to the Horseshoe Dam locality in Minerological Record. Unfortunately, I don't have the issues that contain the references. They are Volume 11, page 261 (1980), and Vol. 14, p. 115 (1983). Would someone who has one or…
Rod: Thanks for the suggestion. I will give George Polman a call today. BTW, I now know my correct new email address! I can reached, in addition to my CIS address, at: nschacht@omni.voicenet.com This new address is with a net provider that gives me 90 hours per month of PPP…
GPS Help
Message #164372
I am forwarding this message from another forum. Perhaps some here can help this wayward sailor. Nathan A. Schachtman ————————————————- FORWARDED MESSAGE – Orig: 23-Jan-95 20:25:49 Subject: #GPS Reliability – Msg Number #207614 From: Mark White 100033,3652 To: All Forum: IBMAPP Section: 13 – Tech/Engr/Sci [A] ————————————————- My company is…
arizona rockhounding
Message #164281
As often happens in my work, I have an unexpected call to Phoenix, Arizona, later this week. There's a decent chance that I may have time to do some quick collecting in the area. Various texts describe zeolite localities around Horseshoe Dam, which appears not far from Phoenix. Does anyone…
New Participant
Message #163275
– Reply to message #160720 (already scrolled) Harry, You inquired about the Delaware society. I have heard of it but I can't tell you about its activities. I am active in the Delaware Valley Earth Science Society, which meets in Woodbury, NJ, and does most of its collecting in SE…
Guy, I'll check out Sandia's front page. Thanks for the Volume III of Gladwell's book. I received it on Thursday, and yesterday, Saturday, I received the copy I actually paid for, from Gladwell. So now I have two. Care to designate a new home for the first one? I just…
Chris, This is a subject that elicits strong feelings from some of us here in CIS, who are interested in collecting. When I hear of such legislation, I immediately want to know how the categories of permitted collectors and the outlawed collectors will be defined. Can you help us out…
Guy, Lanny, >> Lanny, > I wish more people I had to deal with made their "This is going to cost you…" statements like that. >>Hmmm, I forgot to mention – Nathon buys the beer/coffee. I am good for the gas, too. 🙂 Nathan
Hi Guy, Thanks for the help. I ordered the book on Searles Lake minerals from Jon, and with that order, I sent him a note about how this new order was an act of faith. I got the new book from Jon the other day, with a note about how…
Doug, Delphi now offers me 9.6k local access, at 20 hours for $23/month. For the amount I am in Europe, I'll make the long distance call, but my views on that could change as my clients' problems become more global in scope. 🙂 Nathan
Guy, Thanks for the advice. This month I will find a local provider. The local paper just ran a story on VoiceNet, which made it look promising. NO, I have not heard from John at all. I even sent him an order for his new book, recently reviewed in Mineral…
Doug, Thanks for the how to guide to ftp files through cis. Now, we need a guide on how we can do it for $1 an hour. (Easy answer is GO DELPHI.) CIS has so much better a product than Delphi that I would love to do my internetting on…
jerry, cleo is a rockhound! sign me up for an advance copy. another author who hailed from upstate new york and who could really sling a scientific metaphor was thomas pynchon. could we be getting another gravity's rainbow? maybe with enough loco-weed? merry christmas. nathan
jerry, when you live on atlantic coastal plain (south jersey), the piedmont of SE Pennsylvania looks pretty good for mineral collecting. The Wheatley lode is just one good, reliable collecting site. The old Ecton Mines were run by Audobon himself in Lower Providence, PA. Like the Wheatley, it is a…
Megan, I do not know what info you have gotten already, but recently I acquired a copy of a CD-ROM, The Theory of Plate Tectonics, which is published by TASA Graphic Arts, INc., 15 Nexus Lane, Tijeras, New Mexico 87059. I acquired mine from Rockware, which is a distributor of…
Hey JD, Lost but not forgotten. Limonite pseudos after cubic pyrite are dirt common in SE Pennsylvania. You can find them in most limestone quarries here, and there are some well known farmers' fields in Lancaster County, where you can find the pseudos. Just north of Lancaster, there is a…
Hi Lanny, Thanks for the update on the dbase. I, for one, am eagerly looking forward to a product in that price range. I assume that Doug is helping you put the files in a form that can be imported into any of the major data bases. I had better…
John, West, for one, did not have competitors until recently with the advent of online access to courts and their opinions. Now, many states that had given West the monopoly to publish their state opinions, will be embarking on various forms of electronic bulletin boards to publish the judicial decisions.…
Doug: The usgs has been better than most agencies in making its materials widely available, including in electronic formats. By comparison, agencies like the fair-haired EPA, and the scatter-brained OSHA, with their engorged budgets, have the money for LOTS of print copies of books, pamplets, etc. The feds could save…
Doug, The public domain stuff would remain in the public domain. The government can't copyright its own workproduct, and any successor to the usgs would not acquire what the usgs never had. If in the future there was the Acme Corporation Geological Service, its own workproduct would be copyrightable. I…
John, Once upon a time, I was in the trenches, trying cases everyday in Philadelphia, Media, Ebensberg, Camden, or New Brunswick. Then I was put out to pasture, so to speak, and my work involved not so much trying the cases, but developing the expert witnesses needed for a major…
Bob, I was class of '75, Rutgers College. You may remember, from your history courses, that Rutgers College went co-ed in 1971. As a result, I had a few distractions from academia and my scientific interests. I started off as a biology major, but I transferred to philosophy as an…
George, There's an obscure school on the Charles River in Massachussetts. It used to have a well known geology and mineralogy department, but I'm not sure what its current status is. Harvard something. Columbia Univ. has had a good geology department, but living in Morningside Heights in Manhattan is not…
Bob, I wasted the flower of my youth in New Brunswick, NJ, on the banks of the old Raritan. Class of '75, somewhere in the upper Pleistocene. When were you there? Nathan
Hi Guy, Nice of you to think of me, and yes, I'm still at the Haddon Heights address. Do I need to send Jonathan a note to remind him that I plunked down my money for volume III some time ago? Nathan
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