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Mining Business Digest

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#133683From: Frank L. LudemanJun 5, 1994 9:31 PM
Doug: Snail mail for Mining Business Digest is: 11 Robin Crest Lane Littleton, CO 80123 T# (303)798-9365 F# (303)798-6654 How do I post a sample? The last issue ran to +150,000 bytes? Is that too much to post? Spent one day of the Mem Day weekend up on the Arkansas at the fee panning/sluicing areas at the Lake Creek/Arkansas confluence and thereabouts. The owner has the best placer diggins in Colroado at $1/day for panning and $5/day per sluice — he sure got more gold than I did. We did a bit better on the South Platte at Fairplay but still don't plan to quite my day job. It's always a thrill to see color in the pan though. Hoped to get back to the place I found what I think are axinites, but didn't get back there over the Mem Day weekend. They occur as micros in small vugs in a volcanic (?) associated with a granodiorite intrusive south of Trout Creek Pass between Fairplay and Salida (Colo). Most are small, a few mm across, and only terminations and part of the prism faces are poking out of the small vugs. Some are honey-colored but many are coated with a manganese stain and not very attractive. Chlorite sheaves and some unknown are associated. Saw the message regarding MINLOG. I have a copy that I traded an ad in MBD for. I have installed it but haven't had a chance to start entering info yet (after all its only been about 4 months since I installed it). I talked to Jim over the phone last week and told him about the Geology Forum. Frank L.
#133831From: Richard KnappJun 7, 1994 1:54 PM
Frank, If you have Pkzip, you could zip it down (if it's all text) to about half its size. That'll save you upload time (u/l's are free!). Rich
#134100From: Doug MitchellJun 9, 1994 10:38 PM
Hi, Frank– Compressing should bring that 150K down to 70-80K, a reasonable upload size. Do you have an archiver/compressor you know how to use? There is a freeware ARC file archiver (ARCA.COM) in GO IBMSYS forum library (or did they move that?), and shareware PKZIP, for MSDOS users (those are the most widely useful formats). In connect-free GO HELPFORUM library, you can download COMPRS.DOC which lists compression forms and decompression programs for most types of computer (they do not list compression programs for many formats, but they are often found where the decompression programs are). You could also post a digest rather than a full copy, as Lanny has done for Mineral News. –Doug