Rock solid experience
Graduate geology student Liam Knudsen, of Moscow, exams a section of core provided by Hecla Mining Company with a hand lens during a core logging workshop in the IRIC building.
Photo courtesy of RALPH BARTHOLDT
Hecla geologist Ben Henderson talks with more than a dozen geology students about mining techniques at the core logging workshop, a partnership between Hecla Mining Company and the University of Idaho’s Geography and Geological Sciences.
MOSCOW — Slim cylinders of rock 2 feet long and weighing as much as a truck jack lie on tables at the Integrated Research and Innovation Center on the University of Idaho Moscow campus.
Students outfitted with hand lenses, tools and notebooks examine the slender rock columns before making notes in logbooks...
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