[meteorite-list] Gold Basin strewn field correction on a post by Carl Esparza

[cdtucson at cox.net]

Twink,
Thank you so much for setting the record straight.
I am sure that everyone enjoyed your corrected information. I know I did. thanks again. 
And thanks for the cake at the auction last night. You are wonderful. Carl
--
Carl or Debbie Esparza
Meteoritemax


---- Larry & Twink Monrad <larrytwinkmonrad at comcast.net> wrote: 
> No Carl, you do not have this right at all.
> 
> What I told you the other night is that Jim Kriegh, John Blennert and I 
> turned in all of our first several hundred specimens to Dr. Kring at the U 
> of A.  These were found on BLM land where the field was discovered while 
> hunting for gold.  Dolores Hill and Dr. Kring went through these one by one, 
> bagged and labeled them, as Dolores can attest.  Twenty per cent of these 
> went to the Smithsonian.  The rest were eventually given back to us by Dr. 
> Kring except for a few that the University needed for classification.  John, 
> Jim and I also donated several to the University of Arizona Mineral Museum 
> which they still own.  As all of us discovered different meteorites in the 
> same strewn field, they were also examined, classified and returned to us 
> except for the slices kept by the U of A for classification.
> 
> It was a year later that Dr. Kring obtained for Jim Kriegh a permit to hunt 
> on the Lake Mead Recreation Area and  Jim, John and I hunted there for a 
> while and were honored to do so.  Dr. Kring was interested in knowing 
> whether the strewn field covered the Recreation Area.  When we found Gold 
> Basin meteorites at various points even overlooking Lake Mead and walked 
> over lots of flat land and into canyons on both sides of the road into the 
> Recreation area it was obvious that yes, the field extended to Lake Mead. 
> All of these finds on the Lake Mead Recreation area were turned over to Dr. 
> Kring who in turn sent them to the Smithsonian as that had been in the 
> agreement in order to get the permit to hunt on the Recreation area. We had 
> hunted briefly at various spots just to see where they occurred.   Jim 
> Kriegh did not ask for the permit to be extended since the information that 
> Dr. Kring needed had been verified.
> 
> Once the press release came out from the University of Arizona in January 
> 1998, anyone was free to hunt on the original BLM area and we enjoyed many 
> hunts with many of you who became our good friends.  Meeting all of you who 
> did hunt with Jim Kriegh or who met him at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show 
> is what made him the happiest and made the find worthwhile to him.  Jim was 
> also pleased to have donated his time for the mapping and scientific 
> information his find afforded the meteorite world.
> 
> 
> Twink Monrad
> 
> 
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