tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post1597894002620241450..comments2024-01-30T19:45:36.648+11:00Comments on Lounge of the Lab Lemming: I'm a sheltered geologistC W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-23106362707437971782010-05-18T21:01:01.570+10:002010-05-18T21:01:01.570+10:00Never mind international borders. There are plenty...Never mind international borders. There are plenty of tales in Australia of geos being used for target practice - even, or perhaps especially, in regions where the land is largely Crown-owned leases and geos are welcome by law to go about their business almost wherever they desire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-59754485222190733842010-05-18T20:55:59.219+10:002010-05-18T20:55:59.219+10:00A friend has a similar story from Africa, but in h...A friend has a similar story from Africa, but in his case he was half-way up a hill searching for prospecting site when it dawned on him that the agitated local shouting "Mine! Mine!" from the road below wasn't going on about the juicy mineralised target he was seeking. He said the worst part was balancing the understandable desire to simply run like **** down the hill against the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-67744484782346973662010-05-13T20:32:42.067+10:002010-05-13T20:32:42.067+10:00Even 25 years ago, things were weird along the Mex...Even 25 years ago, things were weird along the Mexican border. This same friend was driving west of El Paso, near dusk one evening, perhaps 10 - 15 miles north of the border on the La Mesa Plateau.<br /><br />He popped over a hill and saw a heavy truck and a halftrack (both unmarked) and while he was making his hasty U-turn, he noticed something was being transferred from one vehicle to the on-the-rockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06520348177098321049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-87944186151244518642010-05-13T20:22:38.032+10:002010-05-13T20:22:38.032+10:00A friend of mine at UT El Paso had to suspend his ...A friend of mine at UT El Paso had to suspend his dissertation field work in Chihuahua, Mexico due to the drug violence.<br /><br />I don't know if he has completely given up or not.<br /><br />In another place, back in the summer of 1978, one of my UTEP professors went to study carbonates in Yugoslavia. He said that when they got within about one mile from the Albanian border, the Albanian on-the-rockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06520348177098321049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-83242182167172292352010-05-11T05:16:14.931+10:002010-05-11T05:16:14.931+10:00Well I was thinking along the same lines, so I gue...Well I was thinking along the same lines, so I guess I have been sheltered too.Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12307658244262219896noreply@blogger.com