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Some 1977-78-79 Meeting Photos
Fairmont 1977 - Missoula 1978 - Fairmont 1979
Photos by Dick Gibson, except as noted.

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The 1977 meeting was mostly a technical session at Fairmont Hot Springs, but it included a trip to the World Museum of Mining in Butte. The 1977 meeting also had a tour to the bottom of the Berkeley Pit. A smelter tour rounded out the 1977 meeting.
Bruce Cox led a trip in 1978 to the Elkhorn Mining District. Elkhorn Ghost Town. Don Rasmussen's trip took us to plant fossil collecting localities.
1979 - another Farimont meeting - included a trip up the South Boulder River where we were met by IUGFS folks including Judson Mead (right, with Steve Koehler) Bill Roy and Bob Hall led the 1979 trip to investigate glacial geology of the South Boulder River valley.Bill Roy gets immersed in glacial deposits.