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1/ Timelord #Zircon has many stories, this is one of them… (regenerated from the 𝔅𝚒🆁ⓓ𝚜𝑖🅃𝐞 for #MinCup23).

It’s a tale involving bear-driven serendipity and some really old #zircon

Geological mapping in northern Canada is challenging. There are no roads. No coverage. Only a few summer months free of snow and ice. Lots of lakes. 𝙇𝙤𝙩𝙨 of bugs. And bears. They need to fatten up quickly to get through the winter so are always looking for food.
This is a problem for geologists because…
A large grizzly bear in a wild area with lots of shrubs and grass is sitting on haunches and eating bright red berries from a small bush it is pulling toward its mouth. A yellow tag with numbers is just visible on the bear’s right ear.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grizzly-bears-encroaching-bc-1.3782144