Lithium 101 with Joe Lowry: Brines, Pegmatites, DLE, and the Smackover
What happens when a finance guy who's never heard of lithium takes a job in a small North Carolina town because it's near where his favorite author lived?Joe Lowry is the founder of Global Lithium LLC...
13 Aug 1h 28min
How to Find Copper — Dr. Tim Ireland, First Quantum
There's a photo on Tim Ireland's Google Scholar profile of a toddler standing on the floor of an open pit gold mine in Australia's Northern Territory, wearing a hard hat and — because it was the early...
30 Jul 53min
The Rock 50 Light-Years Away
What if you could tell whether a rock exists on a planet 50 light-years away — without ever leaving Earth? This week Chris and Jesse welcome back friend-of-the-show Dr. Jackie Faherty (American Museum...
16 Jul 56min
The Room Problem (and how Geochronology solves it)
Granite is everywhere — it makes up much of the continental crust beneath our feet; yet, for over a century geologists were stuck on a deceptively simple question: where does all that magma find room?...
2 Jul 54min
Rocks for the Future - with MIT Prof. Oli Jagoutz
What does cracking open green-shiny rocks in a German preschool have to do with feeding eight billion people without oil and gas? In this episode, we sit down with Prof. Oli Jagoutz, professor at MIT ...
11 Jun 44min
The Fundamentals of Geology (Exam)
This week we take on the FG test — the Fundamentals of Geology exam — the very first step on the road to becoming a professionally licensed geologist. Jesse just sat the exam this past fall (yes, a ge...
28 Mai 41min
The Geologist's License: How the FG and PG Exams Get Built — with Keith Rapp
In this episode, we sat down with Keith Rapp, senior hydrogeologist, longtime volunteer with ASBOG (the Association of State Boards of Geology), and immediate past president of the organization. We du...
30 Apr 1h 3min
