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Category: Prospecting

Related to my mineral exploration years

Meares Island – Moist Misery

Posted on September 9, 2010November 3, 2020 by Ed Medley

In the late summer of  1972 I started a job prospecting in the rain at Meares Island, British Columbia.  

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Dear Joan, Devil’s Club and Jello

Posted on July 13, 2010April 7, 2023 by Ed Medley

“If I fall into that lot I’ll get badly hurt”, I warned myself, as I came to and looked down from the top of the cliff into the tangle of evil Devil’s Club lurking pointedly below.  

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radio, silence

Posted on July 12, 2010November 3, 2020 by Ed Medley

A time there was, 40 years ago, when two-way radio was the only way to communicate in remote places.   Life in mineral and geotechnical exploration bush camps – fancy with wood floors/canned oysters for snacks/carpentered loos; or more commonly: primitive with pine-top carpets/PBJ for supper/bough over a pit privy – depended on battery-operated radios….

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Snow Jobs

Posted on June 9, 2009April 6, 2023 by Ed Medley

Halifax, Nova Scotia was enveloped in a blizzard when I disembarked from the M/S Lundefjell in February 1969. I had rarely seen, felt, played in or hated snow until I emigrated to Canada. They do good snow in Canada

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