Limes, Simple Object, chart: Sept 26 2010

Here are the newly updated and better looking limes. NOW to start working on the pineapples and get them up here as well.



This one, with the balloons is titled, "Free Entanglement".

Structure Geology Field Trip: second week of school

Here are a few pictures from my field trip that I went on when I missed class. I enjoyed it all and being able to be out camping and seeing these awesome things. ENOJY!!









A thrust fault of Chugwater siltstone( the bright red)

Water color 251: limes galore and a few pinaps

For my 251 art class we were given this assignment and here is a few pieces of it. final and others to follow.

Life at the Gold Mines. August 13, 2010

So the tour I went on yesterday, was pretty much amazing, actually it wasn't really a tour, I shadowed an ore control geologist around while he did his job and I helped him out. He took me into his office, showed me around the in-house software programs that they use there at Newmont, and then took me to talk to one of the engineers, and she showed me around a little more with the software programs. After that the geologist, PJ Shumway, took to to see Gold Quarry pit, which recently had a pretty major land slide. The sediments that went, were some basal sands, that lie right on top of this huge layer of Montmorillionite, and the sand likes to hold water, so it super-saturated the clay and one day, away it all went. They have a couple blast hole rigs down in the bottom, a couple trucks and things, stuck down there until they get that place cleaned out. Apparently, I got a treat seeing that, because no on is supposed to really see that. After talking about the slide he talked to me about the geology there in the pit, and pretty much what happened, it looks like someone threw up there, there are so many faults going through there that have down dropped and shoved, and pushed everywhere that the oxides are just everywhere. I can't quite remember what some of the faults were, but its got The Roberts mountain thrust fault...SOOOOOO AWESOME.

PJ then took me to one of the pits there that they are mining out of since Gold Quarry is closed down, and I got to go down into the pit there on the blast patterns, with the blasting crew, and do some ore control. He threw, well dropped 10% HCL onto the sides of the holes they were drilling out and getting ready to blast and seeing if it had calcite in it and if it is non-acid forming sediment. IT was super cool to be down there and see this fault system that went through there. They had the roberts thrust, some other faults, and an anticline. SO awesome to see the way that it had mutli-fractures, and folded up back on itself ( It escapes me at the moment what it is called, but its right on the tip of my tongue.) and fractures, you can see the folding back on itself in the smaller layers and he was telling me that is what it looked like on the big scale. Oh man. I got such a great geology lesson there. In the Pete pit, where we were for this, there is a little bit of the rodeo creek unit, and then it goes down in the Popovich formation, which he was telling me is a bunch of black boring micrite. Well more so a silty to muddy limestone grading into calcarenite and limestone with planar laminated silty limestone. That was an adventure in itself to be able to see all of that first hand. And PJ was telling me that I must be pretty special, because they don't just let anyone in to the pits, ESPECIALLY on the blast pattern. So it was pretty awesome.

Then, we went up to another newer pit where they are starting some new exploration, and helped him map the high wall for the next blast, well not map it, just figuring out the hardness of the rocks and how hot they would have to load the holes for blasting the rock. He was going to have me map the high wall with him, but he had to be back at gold quarry at a certain time to talk with one of the blasting engineers. Then I was shown how they put all the information we got at the blasting holes into the in-house software and then, I was taken back to the place of my normal working out at the core shed. BY this time my brain was completely on overdrive. It was a lot to process all in a few hours.

I was talking to John Powell, the head surface geologist, and he asked me if I wanted to be considered for an internship next summer, I told him that I was SUPER interested. Even though field camp will kinda be in the middle of it. I told him if I could get hired right after I get out in April, I could work for 7 weeks, then go to field camp, and then come back after it and then work for 7 more weeks. So I am hoping it goes through. I was a little more interested in the mining career path after this day. We shall see though. PJ was very helpful with the advice and all.

We shall see what the future may bring!!

: June 6 --Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

So Friday I went in to work for a full 40hrs on my paycheck this week. I was exposed to more things that the others I work with do on a regular basis. I helped mark footage's of the core that many places have been drilling out. I was then instructed on how to take pictures of the core for other records. AND then I was shown how to break up the core, bag it in bags according to a certain order and then I bagged up all 600 some feet up in a bunch of bags and tied off with zip ties, so they could be put into a bin, and sent on its way to the assay lab so they could break it down more and determine what kind of rocks they are dealing with and where the GOLD is in those rocks. Definitely a great experience. I loved how much I got to look at the rock and recognize things I have learned in past classes from school.
Then I was summoned to sit at a computer for the rest of the day, 4 hours or so, to change the names of the pictures that they took of the core footage. THAT was something, let me tell you. I learned myself how to type numbers in pretty fast with my left hand because my right dominant had was tired. OH GEE.

What a day, what a weeek.

June 2, 2010: Missing you like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter

Wow, so it sure has been a long time since I have been on here. A lot has happened to me worth spitting out on this wall of a blog thing.

I have been working out at the Gold mine here in Northern Nevada for three weeks now. Crazy how time surely flies, But it has been good. I work in the Geology Warehouse where they receive, prepare, distribute, and then store the rock core samples. I get to play with rocks, rock flour, and interact with all the geologists that come into the building to map and log the core samples. :D without even getting the internship. So it's a pretty awesome job I have here.

BUT more to come...
I promised my niece that I would go play Frisbee with her a few min ago, so I better run. I will be back though I promise!!

May-June 2009. August 3

These are some of the pictures of things that have happened since I have been up in Idaho for the summer semester and session. I have met many new friends and people, it has been quite the wonderful time here. I love all these people. :)

Jeff Patten's Birthday close the beginning of the semester. He is the one with all the presents, to my left and your right.
This is the group of people from our ward that showed up to celebrate with him and have a good time. This was our first time meeting Kevin and his roomies. Kevin is the one to my right and your left of me in the bottom of the picture.

This is my dear lovely friend Rebbecca Hill. She was my relief society president and I love her to death. We are so cute. :)

Becca and I got into a water fight after our various soccer games. It was very fun. Warm water because it was a little cold that night. But it was still amazing. I am so glad she is here. One Sunday we decided to go and "chalk it up" with the boys apartments in our ward and this is what happened. We did it at our apartment, but the Manager said it was vandalism and we had to wash it off shortly after we put it up. Sad day, but the guys apts manager couldn't care less. :)

THis is my friend Jonathan William Bealer and Wenis (Daniel Walker). We are getting the slack line set up to go slack over the canal. SO awesome. I was in charge of documenting then playing as well.
Me attempting to go, it was so scary. The water current was dragging me with it, we all kept leaning the same way the current was flowing, it was really crazy. But SO FUN!!

These two are amazing. So cool, and where I get my inspiration for being better at lining.

This is my foot after cutting it on some glass in a different part of the same canal as the one above. I got ten stitches and lots of pain, and no fun for the next four weeks after it happened at the end of June. LAME.

This is Amy, Brittani, and I attempting to bridge jump after our real attempt failed because people bailed on us. So we went to the canal. We are all so excited

This is just up the canal from where i cut my foot on that nasty piece of glass and so I was quite a bit scared of walking in the mud, so I tested out the water first. :)

This is the last jump of the day Brittani and I took. She chickened out on me after we counted to three about two times. Lame! So much fun though.

Yet another attempt at bridge jumping,but instead we went to Swan Valley and jump into the river here by these waterfalls. My dear friend Jon, to the right, took us there. He is awesome.

Britt and I in the falls. SO cool

This was when my family was here at the Dunes playing and Brittani came spent the day with my family and I. Egin lakes. Mica totally belly flopped this on on purpose. OUCH!!

Brittani's sand castles...or shapes I guess. Pretty cool they way they look at first glance.

Me my, brother and little sister playin i the sand and building sand castles