Ben Parrish
benitoite.bsky.social
Ben Parrish
@benitoite.bsky.social
Economic geologist ⛏️ at California Geological Survey, volcano admirer 🌋, open source proponent. Views and opinions are my own. 🐘 ben_itoite@fediscience.org
Wrapping up field work for the season in the Mojave investigating molybdenum and tungsten mines and prospects. Lots of cool rocks showing tungsten skarn development and copper mineralization.

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April 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Copper along a contact between gneiss and latite and open stopes. No name for this prospect, but someone did a lot of work back in the day. This was the end of day 1 of field work checking out old Mo-W deposits in the Mojave.

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December 23, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Beginnings of a new project sampling W and Mo deposits of SoCal. We’re evaluating the age of mineralization and geochemical characteristics compared to similar deposits in across the desert southwest.

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December 13, 2024 at 6:12 PM