GSN Winnemucca Chapter Meeting – Thursday, November 13, 2025

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Contact: ewitte@i80gold.com

Please join us for the

GSN Winnemucca Chapter Meeting

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Where: The Martin Hotel, 94 W. Railroad St., Winnemucca, NV

Time: Drinks @ 6 PM, Food @ 6:30 PM, Talk @ 7 PM

Sponsor: Premier Drilling

Speaker: Richard J. Lundin

Talk:  “What the Miners Left Behind: Processing Mineral Tailings”

Abstract: To Be Announced

Bio: I am Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, AIPG, ISAP, CIfA (UK, In Progress), a 74-year-old Archaeogeophysicist (AIPG), Archaeologist (RPA) and Remote Sensing Specialist (ISAP) who has worked in the US Southwest and overseas from Australia to Saudi Arabia on geological and archaeological projects since 1967 (Geophysicist, AIPG). I have worked for and consulted for several major mining and mineral exploration companies including EXXON, Phelps Dodge, TexasGulf, New Jersey Zinc, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (Australia), Mountain State Mineral Enterprises, VEKAS and the US Federal and State Governments (USGS, BLM, Department of Energy, Arizona State Department of Mineral Resources, Department of Defense, US Army Corps of Engineers) on major projects.

I have initiated and managed +1800 major mineral and aggregate exploration projects for clients through Wombat Mining & Exploration (WME) and archaeological investigation projects in the US and overseas through Wondjina Research Institute (WRI) offices in Tucson and Prescott, Arizona and Twain Harte, California. Many of these projects were in Nevada and Arizona and resulted in the discovery, development and permitting of major deposits that are currently in production.

Over the years, I have focused on using new technologies like Airbourne Remote Sensing, field portable instrumental geochemical sensors to find and map “hidden” mineral deposits and archaeological sites using a combination of Combined Survey Format geophysical tools and soil & plant biogeochemistry.

In 2010, my partner (Dr. Claudia Brackett-Lundin, instrumental geochemist, rockhound and chemistry professor at CSUS) and I were injured in a California gang attack, and since then we have worked with our disabilities to have a productive scientific partnership in developing field portable instrumental geochemical technologies as well as soil and plant field studies for archaeology. We have presented the results of our work at various national and international conferences. This work led to my Doctoral investigations of the use of soil and plant Archaeobiogeochemistry to find and map “hidden” archaeological sites like we had done for mining companies in Arizona prior to our injuries.

With “Miracles” of orthopedic medicine, we are now fully “field capable” for returning to field work on a gold prospect in Arizona that WME worked on in the 1980’s and MAY be viable with current gold prices. In any case, we have GREAT FUN working in the field together in Nevada and Arizona.

If you have any questions, contact ewitte@i80gold.com

Eli Witte, Winnemucca Chapter President