11: Bjørn Thomassen and Kent Brooks: The discovery of the Flammefjeld porphyry molybdenum deposit

Update: 2020-09-08

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In this episode, we hear from Kent Brooks, emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, and Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about the summers of 1970 and 71 working for the Nordic Mining Company in East Greenland, when they discovered Flammefjeld, a spectacular red and yellow mountain that hides a buried mineral deposit, still undrilled fifty years later.

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31: Allen Nutman: A lifelong love of making geological maps

2021-01-2615:05

30: Bjørn Thomassen: Chasing gold in wild weather, North-West Greenland

2021-01-1917:42

29: Kent Brooks: Mantle xenoliths and dislocated shoulders

2021-01-1211:12

28: Bjørn Thomassen: Encounters with animals while prospecting for lead-zinc in east Greenland

2021-01-0512:48

27: Agnete Steenfelt – From geochemical exploration to a Greenland-wide geochemical map

2020-12-2910:54

26: Bjørn Thomassen – Stalked by a polar bear in East Greenland

2020-12-2210:58

25: Brian Upton: Working in remote Northeast Greenland

2020-12-1509:21

24: Allen Nutman – “Faraway places with unpronounceable names” – dating Greenland’s ancient rocks

2020-12-0825:38

23: Bjørn Thomassen: Vertical fieldwork – exploring the niobium-tantalum-enriched Motzfeldt Intrusion

2020-12-0118:20

22: Bjørn Thomassen – Mining the Black Angel

2020-11-2424:11

21: Niels Henriksen: Reaching remote western North Greenland – mapping the Thule region

2020-11-1714:23

20: Allen Nutman: “What if the boundary is folded?” – figuring out the structure of Earth’s ancient crust

2020-11-1014:08

19: Kent Brooks: “Nanoq! Nanoq!” Close encounters with polar bears in East Greenland

2020-11-0313:08

18: Agnete Steenfelt – The beginnings of systematic geochemical exploration of Greenland

2020-10-2713:18

17: Allen Nutman: “Paired for life” – the beginning of a career mapping the oldest rocks in the world

2020-10-2018:04

16: Kent Brooks: Discovering gold in the Skaergaard intrusion

2020-10-1318:51

15: Agnete Steenfelt – Exploring for uranium in East Greenland in the 1970s

2020-10-0611:30

14: Bjørn Thomassen – One Man Expedition in East Greenland

2020-09-2909:28

13: Kent Brooks: “Mayday, mayday, mayday, helicopter going down”

2020-09-2208:18

12: Niels Henriksen – Mapping remote, uninhabited eastern North Greenland

2020-09-1513:51

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11: Bjørn Thomassen and Kent Brooks: The discovery of the Flammefjeld porphyry molybdenum deposit

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11: Bjørn Thomassen and Kent Brooks: The discovery of the Flammefjeld porphyry molybdenum deposit

Julie Hollis

11: Bjørn Thomassen and Kent Brooks: The discovery of the Flammefjeld porphyry molybdenum deposit