25 April 2007
Keno Hill

The house is now finished with hot and cold running toilets and showers - just as I am about to leave. Hope my room, furnished with scrounged bits and pieces, will still be available for me when I get back - I put the word in to the camp manager so here's hoping.

Well, it looked as if winter was finished with warm weather and meltwater running - so it was a little bit of a shock to wake up this morning to see about 10cm of fresh snow that had snuck in during the night.

I am tidying up and packing ready for the run home. First break and will be home from Sunday 29th until Wednesday 16 May.

Have a bunch of maps to run into Whitehorse for scanning and you can see where they come from - a collection of completely unsorted, undated, multibly copied geology and mine drawings that have resided in a concrete vault, where a heater runs all the time, some from the 1960's.

I have now got a good handle on what I have to do when I get back and it will be a lot of computing and some field work and then maybe we can sort this little pile of rocks out and find some more silver. There will be four drill rigs working by then and with each one getting about 60m drilling every 24 hours, this core shed will be overflowing. Glad not to be logging core anymore these years.

So........

See you in kiwi soon.