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So I went and bought that huge geological map that is always (or was always featured) in the back of the GSA Today magazine. The only problem was where to put it. Well luckily I have a huge wall space in my office with fairly high ceilings. And it actually looks pretty cool there. Now when I am zoning out, I can stare at the beautiful geology of North America.

Gold Update

Update!!!!!

This is my fastest update yet. Awesome.

Well I heard back from Rick from the gold maps website http://www.goldmapsonline.com/ almost immediately (a couple of hours after the fact) and although I did not get what I was expecting (The wording made it seem like I would get a real paper map) I did get the kmz files (Google earth files) for Utah without a problem. So although not what I was expecting, still pretty cool. I can look at all of the current and past gold claims in Utah and see who they are/were owned by. Although, when I questioned his term "real map" he seemed to disagree with me, stating that what he gave me was a "real map". Personally that's not a real map to me, but I make maps for a living (on my off hours from school), so whatever.

Gold?

I was notified of this rather interesting website that might be of some interest to people. It is a place where you can get the location of gold in the US. That's right GOLD!!!!.

http://www.goldmapsonline.com/

It was sent to my department at school and I figured I would spread the word. Here is what the creator says:

We basically make it possible to view the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's active and abandoned gold mining claims database in Google Earth as a gold map. The result is a very accurate near real-time view of America's gold deposits.

There is a free sample map available on the site but your students may also have a free copy of any statewide map we have for their personal use. They would need to contact us through the site to obtain the free map. No questions asked:).

There you go, a free statewide GOLD map. Who can pass this up? I can't. I'll let you know how this turns out.