Today we had another death march. We went up and down what on the east coast we would call mountains but here are only 6000 foot high hills. We are working on constraining the pre-Cambrian deformation events in the region. I saw a bunch of cool rocks that I have never seen before including metagabbro and metaperidotite (come from both ultra mafic igneous protoliths). The rocks are for the most part granulate grade metamorphics meaning they reaches temperatures of about 875-950 degrees Celsius and about 10 kilobars of pressure.
We had beef lasagna for dinner and afterwords I played a few games of ping pong. The ping pong break was short lived however, as I had to return to computing some of the geochemistry on the rocks we mapped today. Geochemistry is how we model the P-T (pressure/temperature) conditions of metamorphism.
While working on the project tonight, I was talking to the girl who I played the game show with this weekend. She works in a gold mine in Nevada and says that even with just a Bachelors degree you can get staff geology positions at mines for starting salaries of between 50,000 and 70,000 grand with about a 10-14% profit sharing bonus every year. That is pretty good money for a just graduated college student. Perhaps, in addition to grad school applications, I will see if there are any entry mining or oil jobs available. However, the most recent oil industry data suggests getting a masters can get you starting jobs between 70,000 - 90,000 grand a year.
I am looking forward to this weekend. The town we are near, Whitehall, is having their annual festival called frontier days. Unfortunately, we will still be at the Bullion Gold mine doing acid mine drainage surveying Saturday afternoon when the rodeo is scheduled to take place
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment