Mining Business Digest
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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.
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
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