Hausel, Eric J.

W. Dan Hausel is only one of a handful of geologists in history who made more than one major gold discovery. He and six other geologists were awarded the "2009 Thayer Lindsley Award for an International Mineral Discovery" by Canada's PDAC for his work on the Donlin Creek gold deposit in Alaska; a gold deposit with as much gold as the Homestake mine. He discovered the Rattlesnake Hills district in Wyoming that is currently being tauted as another Cripple Creek gold deposit, and identified hundreds of other precious metal and gemstone anomalies and deposits during his career. The National Rock H...