In Uzbekistan, they celebrated several different new year events. I wish I’d been warned about one in particular. I was at the apartment alone one night, when[…]

Oh, I forgot one story about my first trip to Uzbekistan. My roomie and I had an ongoing contest. It was to find the weirdest thing in[…]

The Muruntau gold deposit is in the Kyzyl Kum Desert of Uzbekistan. It is being mined in the world’s largest open-pit gold mine with production of about[…]

The Bureau had some real characters. One such character was Iggy. Iggy was a Slovak, and he loved to regale us with his stories. One story involved[…]

Okay, now back to the story. It’s the story of my first job after college, remember?  When I left college to work for the Bureau, I was[…]

Okay, I don’t really think that this is an origin story, but it is the story of my first job after college. Maybe it was more of[…]

The California goldrush of the latter part of the 1800s, and later in Colorado and other western states, is a prime example of many things. Man’s quest[…]

How many types of tailings facilities are there? How many stars are there in the night’s sky? How many licks does it take to get to the[…]