Including Original "Paul H. Letters" Copyright © 1996-2025 Paul V. Heinrich / website © 1996-2025 Dirk Ross - All rights reserved.



Showing posts with label Finds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finds. Show all posts

Friday, 18 January 2013

Prospector Finds 177 Ounce Gold Nugget (Australia)

Prospector Finds 177 Ounce Gold Nugget (Australia)

Prospector makes $285,000 gold discovery
Northwest Star, January 17, 2013,
http://www.northweststar.com.au/story/1241065/video-prospector-makes-285000-gold-discovery/?cs=2452

Strewth! Lucky Aussie amateur prospector
uncovers huge gold nugget worth £200,000
The Independent, January 17, 2013
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-lucky-aussie-amateur-prospector-uncovers-huge-gold-nugget-worth-200000-8455724.html

Last Gold Nugget Found in Ballarat Region

500,000 gold nugget found in Ballarat region
by Neelima Choahan, The Courier, January 17, 2013
http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/286445/500000-gold-nugget-found-in-ballarat-region/

Best wishes,

Paul H.

Saturday, 15 September 2012

Opportunity Finds Blueberry "Patch"on Mars

Opportunity Finds Blueberry "Patch"on Mars

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery:
Spherical Objects Unlike Previously Found 'Blueberries'
ScienceDaily, September 14, 2012)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120914154003.htm

Puzzling Little Martian Spheres That Don't Taste Like
'Blueberries', NASA picture
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/multimedia/pia16139.html
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05564

NASA Mars rover finds a crunchy 'blueberry' surprise
New Scientist, Septemebr 15, 2012
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/09/mars-rover-finds-a-crunchy-blu.html

Mars 'Blueberries': Iron Baubles Spotted By NASA
Opportunity Rover, Suggests Life Existed On Red
Planet, Huffington Post, Sept. 14, 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/mars-iron-blueberries-indicates-presence-life_n_1882138.html

A possibly related paper is:

Weber, K. A., T. L. Spanbauer, D. Wacey, M. R. Kilburn,
D. B. Loope, and R. M. Kettler, 2012, Biosignatures link
microorganisms to iron mineralization in a paleoaquifer.
Geology. vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 747-750.
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/40/8/747.abstract

PDF file at http://www.geosciences.unl.edu/~dloope/pdf/Weber2012.pdf

Best wishes,

Paul H.