![]() ![]() It was difficult to see into the deep canyon, because it dropped off so steeply, and because the driver was veering around the bends in the road so fast, racing the Toyota Land Cruiser down the mountain road. I don’t know very many people who are willing to do that! It has been one of my greatest pleasures, and it has been a personal honor, to participate in adventures alongside of Ernie in California, and in multiple other interesting places all around the world. He also overcame the primordial fear that every human being has of going down into deep, black underwater holes (where dangerous monsters lurk, if only in your imagination). Ernie has an enthusiastic, magic disposition for being able to work out solutions to challenging problems in the field. He played a very important part on this project in working out how to increase fine gold recovery when processing heavy sands through standard riffles within the sluice box of a suction dredge. ![]() ![]() Ernie and I did three prospecting trips to Madagascar together, of which this is just one of the stories. This story is dedicated to my long-time loyal friend and fellow adventurer, Ernie Pierce. ![]()
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