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CANDIDATE FOR AIPG NATIONAL EDITOR


John L. Berry CPG-4032 Austin, Texas


Statement of purpose or goals you have for AIPG: To increase the role of TPG in strengthening AIPG, and geoscience as a profession, by fostering greater cooperation between the various organizations that represent us. To further increase outreach to the public and to pro-


spective members especially students and young professionals. To continue focusing on ethics.


Universities Attended Degrees Granted University of Pennsylvania Columbia University


Royal School of Mines (London) --- Company


Title


Zambian Anglo-American Corp. Staff Geologist Southwestern Tech. Inst.


Self-Employed Geologist Earth Satellite Corporation Shell Oil Company


John Berry Associates AIPG Activities


AIPG Associate Editor


Part-time Faculty (Env. Sci.) Senior Geologist/Dir.Min.Explo.


Staff Geologist (Research) Owner


Dates


B.A with Honors (Geology) M.S. Geology & Geophysics


1960-1963 1963-1966 1971-1973


Dates


1966-1971 1973-1975 1975-1977 1977-1982 1982-1999


1999-present Dates


2005-Present Solomon A.


Isiorho CPG-7788


Fort Wayne, Indiana


Statement of purpose or goals you have for AIPG: What an excit- ing time with current natural (geologic) activities happening and reported daily, there is an increasing need for the roles


professional geologists play in the society. Working with earth and space science teachers and instructors in high school and two-year colleges is one way of bringing geoscience awareness to students at an early age, and thus help recruit members to AIPG.


Universities Attended Degrees Granted University of Benin University of Michigan


B.S. M.S.


Case Western Reserve University PhD Indiana University


Company


Geological Survey of Nigeria Geospetra Corporation Standard Oil Company


MBA Title


Field mapping Geologist Geologist Geologist I


GEM testing & Engineering Lab Technologist Indiana University Indiana University


Chair Professor AIPG Activities


AIPG Booth Volunteer at GSA AIPG Associate Editor


Dates 1977 1982 1987 2010


Dates


1978-1979 1982


1984-1985 1987


2004-2013 1987-2017


Dates 2012-2015 2002 to present


TALES FROM THE FIELD


Light at the End of the Tunnel-


Jim Burnell, CPG-11609


In the summer of 1982, we had an opportunity to access a very large prop- erty position to do some baseline explo- ration in the Dahlonega Gold District of North Georgia. The Dahlonega District, an hour north of Atlanta, is a wonder- land of mining history. The site of the first major gold rush in the U.S., the courthouse steps of Dahlonega was where the mayor passionately shouted “There’s gold in them thar hills!” in an attempt to dissuade the local miners from heading west to richer diggings in California. The Dahlonega Rush was the force that pushed the “Five Civilized Tribes” out of the southeast, culminat- ing in Andrew Jackson’s campaign against the Creek Confederacy.


We were hired by a mid-sized com- pany to take a look at the Dahlonega mineralization and to interpret it with newer ideas extant in the 1980s. What a treasure chest of geology and mining


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history not looked at for fifty years or more in an area that had experienced activity from the 1830s to the 1930s.


At one point we decided to ride inner tubes down the Etowah River to map out the good outcrop along the stream. As we drifted, we encountered a large horseshoe bend in the river, where the course detoured around the end of a ridge. There was a curious branching of the stream. Most of the river proceeded around the bend to the right, but a significant flow went straight ahead, disappearing into a large cave.


One of our crew – the guy who had arranged the whole program – was familiar with the District since growing up as a mineral collector and aspiring geologist in Atlanta. He related that the “old-timers” had excavated a tunnel through the ridge by hand to divert the flow and more easily recover placer gold in the river bed around the bend.


We pulled up on the shore and con- templated the options – take the easy route around the bend, or go straight ahead into the blackness of the tun- nel. Our maps showed that the tunnel was nearly a half-mile long. Obviously, it daylighted on the other side, as a


significant flow was disappearing into the void.


There would be no story if we hadn’t decided to take the short cut through the ridge. Off we went into the dark. Chattering nervously, we tried to main- tain taut with each others’ tubes. Before too long we could see the light at the downstream end of the tunnel. That was a big relief in itself. But then we heard the growing sound of a waterfall.


Oh, hell! What could we do. We hung onto each other, all hyperventilating, as the sound got louder. And then we were upon it. Arm-in-arm, the three of us slid smoothly down what was about a 1-foot drop. You can imagine the relief as we hooted and laughed.


Before long we floated gently into the light, to be greeting by an enormous cop- perhead sunning itself on a rock right outside the tunnel. If it had had hands, I would have high-fived him!


So the “old-timers,” using hand tools and muscle power, had constructed this 2500’-long tunnel through solid gneiss from two ends, meeting each other in the middle with a minimal 12-inch disconnect. American ingenuity and enthusiasm provided us with a memo- rable field experience I’ll never forget.


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