Bob G Cuffney

Gebundenes Buch

Travels Without Charlie-the Natives Ate Him

Exploits & Misadventures of an Exploration Geologist

Beschreibung

LIST OF MR. CUFFNEYS' GREAT PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS, DISCOVERIES, PUBLICATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY, ACCOLADES, AND PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS Page left Unintentionally Blank Yes, there they are: zip, nada, squat - no great honors, awards, or rewards. I take solace in one of Mark Twain's famous and wholly applicable quotes, "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."With that out of the way, I can get down to what this literary masterpiece is all about - entertainment. This is a somewhat disjointed collection of short (and not so short) sometimes rambling stories based on the crazy, funny, stupid, sometimes harrowing, and all too often embarrassing happenings of my geological career and the rocky road on the way to it. These stories span some 60 years, from collecting rocks and fossils as a boy growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, through the crazy juvenile antics and tomfoolery of my high school and college years, on to the crazy juvenile antics and tomfoolery of a career as a geologist exploring for mineral and energy resources on four continents and a bunch of remote islands.

Autor

Robert "Bob" Cuffney is an exploration geologist, who has spent his 50+ year career exploring for mineral and energy resources around the world. He received his BSc degree in Geological Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 1972, but soon decided that engineering was too tame for him. He returned to Colorado School of Mines and completed studies to earn his MSc in Geology in 1977. From 1972 to 1975 he worked part-time for Exxon Minerals, conducting exploration for uranium in Colorado, Wyoming, and Alaska. He joined Exxon Minerals full-time in 1976 and spent nine years with the company exploring the western U.S. and Alaska for uranium, molybdenum, gold, and base-metals deposits. After leaving Exxon Minerals in 1985, Bob worked for Rio Algom Exploration, based in Reno, NV, pursuing acquisitions of advanced gold and silver projects in the U.S. That experience convinced him that working for bureaucratic major corporations did not suit him. He left Rio in 1987 to pursue a career as an independent consulting geologist working primarily for junior mining companies and the occasional major one. Working for a variety of clients has taken him to the wilds of the western U.S., Mexico, Chile, Indonesia, the Philippines, Fiji, Mongolia, China, and Australia.During his career, Bob was a member of the Geological Society of America, the Society of Economic Geologists, the American Institute of Professional Geologists, and the Geological Society of Nevada, for which he served as Vice President, President, and Chairman of the 1990 Great Basin Symposium.Bob resides in Reno, Nevada but spends much of his time at his cabin in southwest Colorado enjoying the splendor of the San Juan Mountains, where he spent his first field season as an exploration geologist. He still works part-time, helping clients search for minerals - the essential building blocks of our society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Splash Books
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1558g
• ISBN-13: 9781938814372
• ISBN-10: 1938814371
• Artikelnr.: 63364615