Jim Richards Author | Public figure
Jim Richards Author
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24.01.2022 Finally made it to the game...France v England, should be a cracker. Hang on, what the f#k!!!
23.01.2022 Driving down a track in the west Kimberleys today and came across these two having a fight. Its goanna eat goanna out here.
23.01.2022 Thanks to the Open University London Geology Association for the chance to speak at the Natural History museum...and some fun beers after.
22.01.2022 Things hotting up at Ellendale.
22.01.2022 Had fun today using ground penetrating radar to explore for alluvial diamonds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This is the same gear that the BBC Time Team archeologists often use, but much more interestingly it can work really well on defining ancient alluvial channels.
22.01.2022 Thanks to Matthew Banniser and the BBC World Service Outlook team for a great interview. Click on the Singer Who Defied Apartheid show; I am on at 33mins 27secs into the program. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fnvp8
20.01.2022 Meanwhile, back in Western Australia, a super moon (full moon at perigree), blue moon (second full moon in a calender month) and blood moon (total solar eclipse) all at the same time. Last happened 150 years ago in the western hemisphere. Who said Perth was boring?
18.01.2022 In the gem district of Bangkok. Entire suburb of shops stuffed full of rocks and semi-precious stones of every variety, good and not so good.
17.01.2022 Congratulations to Tom S for winning the gold nugget in the book review of Gold Rush competition. Thanks Tom for a great and fulsome review from a fellow exploration geologist. I will be in touch as to how to get the nugget to you. Milos could have won but he is an old mate so I did not want to appear biased. Thanks also to the other reviewers, it was a tough job choosing.
17.01.2022 Promoting POZ at the Sydney 'Resources Roundup' conference, full house.
17.01.2022 A recent cyclone has put plenty of water into the Fitzroy River (pictured here at Fitzroy Crossing) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The bank erosion is heading towards our hotel...
16.01.2022 Ooops. Quick update, nugget now worth $120!
15.01.2022 Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia. Work not pleasure, but a good place to work. Early last century Broome was the pearl shell capital of the world and 80% of the worlds buttons were produced from Broome shell, prized for its strength.
15.01.2022 People have been asking me how to get hold of the Gold Rush book. UK publisher is out of stock, but has pressed the button on another print run. Amazon still has some and also some bookshops still have stock.
15.01.2022 Tragic quokka selfie on Rottnest Island, Western Australia.
14.01.2022 Thanks to Gary Eisenhauer and the North Wales Geology Association for the opportunity to talk about Gold Rush. A most beautiful setting near Conwy. (And to my cousin Lowri-Ann for the stay and lift.)
11.01.2022 Queue to get into Charlies party at the palace. Wanted to gate crash and meet Meghan but T-shirt didnt cut it.
11.01.2022 People are asking me to recommend good books about gold and resources. Here is one of the best, Ship of Gold by Gary Kinder follows modern day treasure hunter Tommy Thompson (now in prison!) as he discovers a shipwreck full of gold from the California gold rush. Some fascinating historical narrative and beautifully written.
10.01.2022 I just read the beautifully written Jungle of Stone by William Carlsen and loved it. When it comes to finding lost cities in the jungle, nobody has done it bigger or better than Catherwood and Stephens and their Mayan adventures in Central America.
10.01.2022 New independent valuation on the POZ Minerals Blina Project diamonds. Fancy Yellows up 131% to US$3,391 per carat. Looking good. http://www.pozminerals.com.au//BlinaDiamondProjectFancyYel
10.01.2022 How you catch lunch in the West Kimberleys.
09.01.2022 42C at the Blina Diamond Project today. Lost both the soles off my boots!
09.01.2022 Thanks to Catherine Kenny from the UK Geological Society, northwest for her review of Gold Rush, I spoke to her group last year at Clitheroe and remember the warm welcome, cold weather and beautiful landscape of the Ribble Valley in Lancashire. https://www.geolsoc.org.uk//Geoscientist-book-reviews-onli
09.01.2022 Queue to get into Charlie's party at the palace. Wanted to gate crash and meet Meghan but T-shirt didn't cut it.
09.01.2022 Promoting POZ at the Sydney Resources Roundup conference, full house.
08.01.2022 Dodged some weather to make this Blina Diamond Project site video update https://youtu.be/UeTNv5scIJU
08.01.2022 Thai washroom etiquette. You have been warned...
07.01.2022 At the old leprosaurium in Derby, in the North of Western Australia today attending a meeting of the Warrwa aboriginal people. This place only closed in 1986 and is a haunting and poignant reminder of how lepers were dealt with before a cure came along.
07.01.2022 Ray Kroc only started building the McDonalds empire at age 52, so there is hope for some of us yet...
06.01.2022 Getting there on the POZ Minerals diamond project Western Australia... http://www.abc.net.au//201/wach-kimberley-diamonds/9055366
04.01.2022 Just attended Bunuba aboriginal peoples AGM in Fitzroy Crossing. All looking forward to getting the project moving next year.
03.01.2022 This beautiful gold specimen is from Hopes Nose, Torquay, Devon, UK. I Managed to get to the Minerals Gallery at the Natural History Museum in London and see it when I was there. It is the speccy I refer to on p38 of GR.
03.01.2022 Relaxation Thai style. Fish eating foot massage in Hua Hin.
03.01.2022 Just finished shooting a corporate video at the Blina Diamond Project. Very wet up here after the recent cyclone.
03.01.2022 These photos were sent to me by Nigel Cossons whose diving group found them at the wreck site of the Royal Charter in Anglesey. These beautiful discoveries were declared and donated to the SS Great Britain (sister ship to Royal Charter) Museum in Bristol.
03.01.2022 Highly recommend The Founder movie with Michael Keaton. Great business movie. https://m.facebook.com/thefounderfilm
