This is Eric writing and I justed wanted to let everyone know what we have been up to. We returned to Wellington from the Hawke's Bay area (Zion's field sites) on Sunday. Zion has been VERY busy sorting out all the info he gathered while we were up there as well as fixing our GPS survey system which died on us. I attended the AUSIMM confernce in Wellington mon-wed. The conference was for australian based mining and exploration companies who are interested in New Zealand's mineral deposits. There were a number of people there with knowledge of my research area which also happens to contain some gold deposits. The conference was great, interseting talks, met some very helpful people, and had some delicious food.
Today (thursday) Zion is preparing some samples for microprobe analysis and hopefully we will be heading back up north towards the Hawke's Bay region for another week of field work. Last week we stayed with a farming family who happened to live almost on top of the fault line that Zion is researching. This week we are hoping to stay at Monestary that is also located right next to the fault. We should be back in Wellington again by next thursday and Christine our advisor will be back to check our progress soon after that.
The next post will have pictures, I promise
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i miss you guys...this is the first look at the silly photos! fun fun... see you in November maybe?
hey gents,
rob passed on the blog details. ok, it wasn't difficult to remember, but i like to see things in writing. good stuff you have here. are you sure the outside world is ready to read about your antics with luby and orange coveralls, though?
cara
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