Away...

I will be away for about a week, and may not be able to do any posting. I'll be on a field trip of sorts, examining a mineral deposit in western Nevada. We'll see what I can do as far as photos or road trip info when I get back.

Have a good week!

Mining and Minerals: Some Links

Download your own "Mineral Baby" at The Mineral Information Institute.

MII also has information, posters, links, lesson plans, and packets for teachers (of at least the elementary grades, maybe adaptable for higher grades). Most of the support material (posters and other things) cost money; the information and "packets" are free. Some of these things are probably more useful than others - a teacher would have to evaluate them.

Here is some interesting geological info on uranium breccia pipes in Arizona, found via Arizona Geology.

And here is a nice post about copper and copper "mining" over at NOVA Geoblog.

Where in the West: April

A small town in the middle distance can be driven to and provides access to some good wildlife viewing. There is an obvious, smallish ice field/glacier in the foreground.

Having Feed Problems

UPDATE: have rerouted through feedburner, please update your feeds if needed, thanks!

Apparently my feeds aren't working correctly. When I subscribe to my own feed via Google Reader, it won't show any post later than yesterday's March 31. I can, however, see the entire atom feed via IE7, and can validate the atom feed at Feed Validator. It will not validate the RSS feed due to error messages.

I don't know how to correct the errors, because I don't even know where the feed code is, and so far, the help pages on Blogger have not been helpful to me. As far as I know, I didn't change anything other than to clear the Internet Explorer temporary files.

If anyone has any idea about this let me know. In the meantime, you will have to read my site the old-fashioned way, by clicking on a link or using bookmarks/favorites.

Deskcrop: Is it Gold?

Or what?