Ralph Roberts's isn't really a family identify in Nevada, however it will be - it used to be he who stumbled on the Carlin Belt gold deposits that created an immense mining increase within the country within the final 4 many years of the 20th century. yet this discovery was once just one episode of his remarkably eventful existence. a fondness for Gold is Roberts's account of that lifestyles, a narrative as colourful and adventurous as that of any fictional hero. Roberts's engagingly instructed autobiography strains his existence from its beginnings in jap Washington country to his repute as a world-renowned geologist, skillfully alternating own stories with the advance of his figuring out of the constitution of Nevada's geology and the forces that formed it. His fascination with ore-bearing minerals ended in an extended and effective profession with the U.S. Geologic Survey, which took him to prolonged postings in critical the USA and later to Saudi Arabia, the place he used to be instrumental within the redevelopment of the traditional gold mines at Mahd adh Dhahab, in all probability the positioning of the biblical Ophir. yet he back time and again to Nevada, intrigued via its geological complexity and the dear minerals that lay hidden underneath its convoluted surfaces, a
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