FIELD TRIPS
Dan Hausel loves to interact with prospectors, geologists & rock hounds. Field trips provide a great opportunity to get to know one another while talking geology, rocks, minerals, how to prospect, and if it is possible to quench gold fever. To see people pan for the first time & show them how easy it is to find gold & gemstones is so satisfying. 
Dan's public field trips were so popular that he was awarded the 2004 Distinguished Service Award by the Wyoming Geological Association, the 1992 AAPG's President's Award, the 1998 RMPTH Prospector's Best Friend Award, the 2001 Education Award from the National Rock Hound & Lapidary Hall of Fame & many other national & international awards.
During his tenure at the WGS at the University of Wyoming, while the director & his managers shared stories about that one glorious Krispy Kreme, Dan was out finding mineral deposits, educating companies on various mineral deposits & leading field trips for companies, clubs & the general public. In total, he led >400 field trips & public & professional lectures. Most on his own time.
Now Dan has teamed up with Johnny Walker - not the booze, but the real, honest to goodness story teller, adventure guide and more. Johnny is a living legend! Together they plan to run field trips to the diamond fields of Colorado & Wyoming & to the gold fields in the Medicine Bow Mountains. Seach a world-class diamond field - you'll learn how to identify diamonds & kimberlite & how to pan for diamonds, gold & gemstones. Travel to South Pass and the Rattlesnake Hills to search for gold, look for rubies, opal, peridot, garnet and other gems.
Our trip to the State Line district between Colorado & Wyoming is an area that produced more DIAMONDS THAN THE CRATER OF DIAMONDS PARK IN MURFREESBORO! Dan found >300 cryptovolcanic strutures in this region & will reveal how he found these, where they are & then it is up to you to go out & stake your claim on what could be a major diamond mine! That's right, cryptovolcanic structures have characteristics of diamond pipes & the majority are found in the middle of a diamond district that produced >130,000 diamonds including gems larger than 28 carats! There is no catch - nearly all of these remain unexplored. If they are on public land, you can file a mining claim!
We'll visit the Kelsey Lake kimberlites & others & learn to identify kimberlite and diamond. You'll hear all the lost treasure stories of the area, Jack Slade's burried treasure, overland trail stage stations, Indian wars, lost mines, ghost towns... the area is packed with tales of histo
ry and heritage!
High wall of the Kelsey Lake diamond mine, Colorado.
Call Johnny Walker to make reservations for the 2010 field trip 303-884-9404 - the Adventure Guide. Tour with geologist Dan Hausel and a historian, guide, cattleman, and story teller Johnny Walker.
(Below upper left) - panning for gold, garnets & diamonds in the Snowy Range. (upper right) - the quartzite peaks of the Snowy Range. (Below left) - Dan discusses how to search for gold on a field trip at the Carissa mine & Dan makes the cover of ICMJ Prospecting & Mining Journal as the most successful geologist in the history of Wyoming in finding gemstones (including giant gemstones). PUBLISHED TOUR GUIDES Hausel, W.D., 1984, Tour guide to the geology and mining history of the South Pass gold district, Fremont County, Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Public Information Circular 23. Hausel, W.D., and Jones, R.W., 1984, Self-guided tour of the geology of a portion of southeastern Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Public Information Circular 21, 44 p. Hausel, W.D., 1985, Road log to South Pass geology: International Archean Geochemistry Field Conference, August 12, 12 p. Snyder, G.L., Hausel, W.D., Klein, T.L., Houston, R.S., and Graff, P.J., 1989, Precambrian Rocks & Mineralization, Wyoming Province: 28th International Geological Congress guide to field trip T-332, July 19-25, 48 p. Hausel, W.D., and Hull, J., 1990, Guide to gold mineralization and Archean geology of the South Pass greenstone belt, Wind River Range, Wyoming, in Roberts, S., Geologic Field Trips to Western Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Public Information 29, p. 178-191. Blackstone, D.L., and Hausel, W.D., 1991, Guide to the geology and mineralization of the Seminoe Mountains, Wyoming, in S. Roberts, editor, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Association 42nd Annual Field Conference Guidebook, p. 201-210. Hausel, W.D., and Love, J.D., 1991, Guide to the geology and mineralization of the South Pass area, in S. Roberts, editor, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Association 42nd Annual Field Conference Guidebook, p. 181-200. Blackstone, D.L., and Hausel, W.D., 1992, Field guide to the Seminoe Mountains, Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Reprint 48, 10 p. Hausel, W.D., and Love, J.D., 1991, Guide to the geology and mineralization of the South Pass area: Wyoming State Geological Survey Reprint 49, 20 p. Hausel, W.D., 1993, Guide to the Geology, Mining Districts & Ghost Towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains Including the Snowy Range Scenic Byway: Geological Survey of Wyoming, Public Information Circular 32, 53 p. Hausel, W.D., 1996, Overview of the Sloan 1 and 2 diamondiferous kimberlites, Colorado-Wyoming State Line district: 1996 Industrial Minerals Forum Field Trip Guide, 14 p. Coopersmith, H.G., Mitchell, R.H., and Hausel, W.D., 2003, Kimberlites and lamproites of Colorado and Wyoming, USA: Field Excursion Guidebook for the 8th International Kimberlite Conference, Geological Survey of Canada, 24 p.
Some of the many gem diamonds found at Kelsey Lake.
