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I am an economic geologist. An economic geologist does mineral evaluations and appraisals of mineral or mining properties. I can tell you if your deposit has value - remember that a mineral deposit, no matter how good, only has value when mined. Any value assigned to a mineral deposit, in the ground, is only the speculative value that deposit.

Experience in the area

I have been a economic geologist for most of my 35 year career. Although I have done work in perhaps 45 states and numerious countries much of my work has been in Appalachian coal, intermountain west gold and silver, and Arizona uranium.

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Past President of the Virginia Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists and a certified geologist in twelve states.

Education/Credentials

BS Degree from Eastern Kentucky University. Work on MS Degree @ Eastern Kentucky University, Colorad School of Mines & Marshall University Numerious short courses on the value of mineral deposits and how to value same. Also several short courses dealing with the different types of geologic processes; sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic along with the mineral associated with each.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

There is nothing, except the air itself, that we use that is not grown or mined. Remember, by definition, ice is a mineral and it follows that water is the liquid phase of the mineral ice. Did you know that salt is the mineral Halite; lite salt is the mineral sylvinite; floride, in your toothpast, is the mineral florite, just to mention three.

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Recent Answers from Joe Norris

2009-11-18 Geology--Earthquakes in Subduction Zones:

Think of the surface of the earth as pieces of flexible foam (continental plates)floating in a swimming pool. Now add a strong breeze. When one piece of foam hits another piece the heavier of the two

2009-11-08 Horizontal drilling:

Horizontal drilling has little or any geologic concern. Horizontal drilling is mostly if not totally economic. Almost any geologic formation can be horizontally drilled. Horizontal drilling was developed

2009-10-30 obsidian:

Obisidian was used by Aztecs for the sharp points of their weapons, mirrors, masks, and for ear ornaments. They called the material Iztli and surnamed it Teotetl meaning 'Devine stone'. They named it so

2009-10-14 geology:

This is not a simple question. That is exactly what economic geology is and what I do. To hopefully be able to answer this question, on a specific case basis, has takem me six plus years of college and

2009-09-24 Rock Identification:

First I apologize, I didn't realize that you had sent another picture of the rock and therefore I didn't answer your second e-mail. I can not tell you what the rock is but I can tell you that you should

 

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