Anyone ever head of "Dukes Short Course in Prospecting?"

[sandtrout]

Anyone ever head of "Duke's Short Course in Prospecting?"

Back in 1966 I ordered a kit from him...I was 16....and had a great time with it. Of course, he's dead now but no one seems to have heard about him unless you're in your 80's. I pulled it out of my storage unit and brought it home to look at again and for awhile I was 16 all over. Just curious. DAN

 

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[Gold Cube]

Re: Anyone ever head of "Duke's Short Course in Prospecting?"

Neat story, Somtimes it is good to be brought back to a happy time. Did you get a picture you could show us?

Mike

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

Re: Anyone ever head of "Duke's Short Course in Prospecting?"

That was an interesting book.

Of course, now it is out of print, and that means its expensive to find another copy.

http://shop.zephyrbooks.com/bookdetails.asp?book=266427



Beth

 

[Darshevo]

Re: Anyone ever head of "Duke's Short Course in Prospecting?"

I have a friend who is an absolute garage sale addict. He picked up a wooden box full of old chemicals, vials, books, etc. We've called it the box of death because of the leakage and general nastiness it had from long term storage. I am a little experienced in dealing with that kind of stuff so in return for cleaning it up and making it into a cool presentable collectible I got to keep the books that were in it (turns out it was a rock hounds field test kit). In the little pile I got both the prospecting short course and the analysis course. Great books

 

[sandtrout]

Re: Anyone ever head of "Duke's Short Course in Prospecting?"

Tried to send too many pix so will go a few at a time...the last one is the opened box minus the 2 manuals and the paperwork so you could see the contents underneath.

 

[Highkamp]

Wow, This is amazing that you posted this. I actually purchased this kit (actually a portion of it ) on eBay several years back but did not realize that it was missing other parts and that it was even part of the Dukes Short Course. The portion that I received was the one in labeled Box #1 in your photo but it did not come with any instructions or name of mfg, etc. so I could not even research it much. I just happened upon a thread on a forum the other day from someone that included reference to the analyses that matched up with what I had. Long story I now have solved a five year mystery on this source of this kit. I would love to know what else came in the kit aside from the one box of chemicals I have. It looks like it has several other items, etc. If possible, please send me more pics or the list of contents of the kit so I can hope to rebuild the missing elements. Thanks again for posting and especially the photos!

 

[Highkamp]

Anyone ever head of "Duke's Short Course in Prospecting?"

Back in 1966 I ordered a kit from him...I was 16....and had a great time with it. Of course, he's dead now but no one seems to have heard about him unless you're in your 80's. I pulled it out of my storage unit and brought it home to look at again and for awhile I was 16 all over. Just curious. DAN

 

[Highkamp]

I finally was able to come across the original Dukes kit on ebay and quickly picked it up. I have several different field assay kits I have found over the years and Dukes is one of the best. It was a great product for the time and sadly these kind of kits are long gone.