>>2776776Me again jerk. Yep I'm 59 this year, my dad worked in geology in the Northwest Territories and Northeastern BC's Atlingold mining district and then the Casseir asbestos mind.
I went on a trip at age 11 to a copper mine in Princeton and I got hooked on the hobby. I was a board student in high school in British Columbia but you could take some amazing courses by correspondence so I took mineralogy 12 astronomy 11 and astrophysics 12. I did all of these in Grade 9 and grade 10. I was also the first kid in my area I believed to own his own home computer and have a bbs. Yes I am effing old.
When I was 15 I was working out at my uncle's Farm earning extra money to go to university and it happened to pull the tilling apparatus into an area he told me to stay out of because I forgot he said there was some rocks in there. What I covered was an old piece of the Red River Oxbow that had been there and before it had dried up completely the Indians 7 or 8,000 years ago used it as a trap to get a large bunch of bison and other animals there and what I dug up were bones some stone tools and other artifacts.
I still have three or four of the things I found there including two beautiful Folsom Stone points that were used for butchering.
Do you have any other questions from me or are you just trying to bore me?
I was online when the only way to communicate with people was Usenet.
Pictures two things that I found on field trips in the last 10 years, the double Thunder egg from Newberry crater in Oregon, where I also went to take a look at the extremely rare obsidian flow that's on the access road next to it. Sounds amazing when you walk over it like you're going over broken glass after the LA riots. The other is a Herkimer diamond from some County up in Upstate New York that I dug up.
