Exploring the historic New Rambler area

Situated in southeastern Wyoming's Medicine Bow Mountains, the New Rambler mine area exposes complexly deformed and metasomatized metaigneous rocks that were historically mined for Cu-Au (+Pd-Pt). Understanding the petrogenesis of this and other hydrothermal platinum group element occurrences will be critical for addressing their increasing societal and industrial demands. My research hopes to integrate field and analytical observations to constrain alteration conditions and mechanisms of precious metal mineralization.