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Over 30 years, W. Dan Hausel has been a popular speaker at geology and mining associations, gold prospecting clubs, treasure hunting clubs, rock and mineral assocations, and a number of civic clubs and groups. He has presented more than 400 talks, lectures, field trips and short courses on geology, minerals, gemstones, diamonds, gold, and mining history and was presented awards for his work including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists' President's Award, Distinguished Lecturer (University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics), Distinguished Speaker (Laramie Lycem), Prospector's Best Friend Award (Rocky Mountain Prospectors' &Treasure Hunters' Club), Honorary Member of the Ragged Ass Miners (Denver Mining Club), Lifetime member (Wyoming Mineralogical Association, RMPTH, Wyoming Prospectors Association), Education Award (National Lapidary & Rock Hound Hall of Fame) and Distinguished Service Award (Wyoming Geological Association). While employed by the Wyoming Geological Survey, he was an invited Keynote speaker at several national and international conferences, presented more lectures and field trips than the entire combined staff of the Wyoming Geological Survey over its entire history and presented more lectures to the Wyoming Geological Association than any other geologist over the past 30 years.

 

In addition to public speaking, he is available to teach short courses on gold prospecting, diamond prospecting, colored gemstone prospecting for fee along with expenses (contact danhausel@yahoo.com).

 

 

 

  

Dan speaks to group on Centennial Ridge gold-platinum field trip to Medicine

Bow Mountains, and posses in Archean granite belt in the Granite Mountains

 

 

 

Members of the Russian Delegation pose with Dan at the International Geological Congress Field Trip at the Copper Mountain

supracrustal belt (left). Dan stands in center at public field trip on gold-iron mineralization in the South Pass greenstone belt (right).

 

 

Members of the volcanology-diamond-peridot field trip to the Leucite Hills stand in lamproite quarry with

excellent exposure of baked (red) shale underlying the lamproite lava which erupted about 900,000 years ago in background.

 

 

Gold panning field trip in the Snowy Range.

 

 

Arguably, the most productive geologist in the history of the Combined Wyoming Geological Survey and

Wyoming Territorial Survey - Dan stands in office surrounded by several national and international

awards presented by various associations.

 

 

At the base of the auriferous Carissa shear zone at South Pass

on one of several dozen field trips to the area. Considered a leading authority

on Archean greenstone belt mineralization, Dan spent 5 years mapping this greenstone belt

and made dozens of gold discoveries. He also mapped all of the remaining greenstone belts

in Wyoming.

 

 

 

 

Gemstones of Wyoming - Dan's field trips were always in demand by various mineral collectors and mineralogical associations. Here he shows members of a

field trip gem-quality pyrope garnet and chromian diopside in anthills within an enormous kimberlitic indicator mineral anomaly that spreads over 300 square miles. Diamonds were found in a

nearby group of lamprophyres at Cedar Mountain to the south of this photo, and gem-quality peridot was also discovered by Dan in the Leucite Hills north of the photo.

 

Field trip to Mother Lode in Medicine Bow Mountains. Field trip members were taught to pan gold but could only find pyrope garnet (an indicator mineral for diamonds).

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