2009 Report - Photo gallery

This gallery is a work in progress and we will be adding more photos as they become available. Check back regularly. If you have photographs you would like included please send them to the ILSG Secretary

Pre-meeting trips

The Bjorkman's discuss the days trips with Mark Smyk (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

Banded iron formation (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

Mark Smyk and Dick Ojakangas (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

George Hudak and Dean Peterson (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

The meeting

Marvin Marshal prepares to give his talk after the banquet (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

Bob Dott presents the Goldich medal to Gordon Medaris (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

Jim Miller (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

Pete Hollings thanks Jim Miller for all his hard work chairing the meeting (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

Phil Fralick (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

Mark Jirsa (photo courtesy Len Espinosa)

Soudan Mine trip

Dean Peterson explains the outcrops at the entrance to the Soudan Mine (photo courtesy Karl Everett)

Jeff Lynott and Milt Gere heading underground in the Soudan Mine (photo courtesy Karl Everett)

Heading underground in the Soudan Mine (photo courtesy Karl Everett)

 

 

 

East Mesabi Range trip

Examining the outcrops on the East Mesabi range trip (photo courtesy Karl Everett)

Tom Campbell describes the rocks to the group (photo courtesy Karl Everett)

Mark Severson describes the rocks to the group with a little help from Terry Boerboom (photo courtesy Karl Everett)

Mark Severson describes the rocks to the group with a little help from Bill Addison (photo courtesy Karl Everett)

 

 

 

Pioneer Mine trip

Pioneer Mine field trip preparing for departure in canoes onto Miner's Lake in Ely (photo courtesy Mark Jirsa)

The lovely George Hudak pointing out contact between Neoarchean iron-formation and a metagabbroic dike (green). (photo courtesy Mark Jirsa)

George Hudak preaching the word of submarine lava flows, despite the snow (photo courtesy Mark Jirsa)

 

 

 

 

 

Architecture of an Archean greenstone belt trip

Dave Wilhelm, one of the participants on this trip, has posted a number of photographs on his web site