I am Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP, AIPG, a Consulting Professional
Historical Archaeologist (RPA), Remote Sensing Specialist (ISAP) (Airbourne
& Archaeogeophysics) and Professional Geologist (AIPG), Director of
Wondjina Research Institute (WRI) and President of RICH ORE, Mining, Inc.
(RICH ORE).

Dr. Claudia Brackett and I are best known to the lists as the recent Chairs
and Co-Chairs of  SHA, SAA, SCA and SAS Symposia and Workshops on the use
of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) in archaeology.  This work has been a
natural adjunct to our use of pXRF technology for mineral exploration
using soil and plant geochemistry.

Since 2005 we have presented many times on this topic and assisted over 100
investigators with PRO BONO pXRF analyses of soils, plants, lithics,
ceramics, organic materials, metals and art objects for THEIR projects.  We
are currently specializing in the use of pXRF technology to find "hidden"
archaeological sites by theirn trace element signatures in soils and
plants. Since 2005 this work has been supported by grants from THERMO
Fisher NITON Corp., Olympus INNOV-X ndt., California State
University-Stanislaus (CSUS) and several mining and mineral exploration
companies- this work is ongoing..

I started my career in Historical Archaeology with a Anthropology\Geology
Degree from Beloit College and the Universidad de las Americas in 1972 with
geological and archaeological field work in Australia, Mexico and British
Honduras.  Times were tough then for archaeologists then and I immediatley
went to work in geology for the US Geological Survey in Flagstatf on
archaeological\geological projects in Arizona and a geology\remote sensing
project dealing with imagery of Mars.

Subsequently, I left the USGS and worked for several small mining companies
as a Project Geologist in the US Southwest and Mexico before returning to
school to get my MS in Geology from the University of Arizona in 1972.  An
major injury kept me from being in the field and finishing the MS degree
and I founded Wallaby Enterprises, Inc. (WEI) to provide technological
services in airbourne remote sensing, geophysics and geochemistry to the,
then, booming US mineral industry.  This boom lasted from 1973-1983 during
which time WEI completed several major mineral exploration programs for the
US Bureau of Mines, other US and Canadian government agencies and over 50
major, mineral industry companies.  During this period, I used my training
in near-surface geophysics and geochemistry to search in Florida for
historic era sites associated with the 1564-1568 French Expeditions to
Florida, a WRI project that is still ongoing.

From 1983 though the present , I worked as a Consultant Geologist, Mineral
Exploration Consultant, Permitting Specialist and Exploration Manager for
several consulting groups and over 100 mining companies under WRI and
Wombat Mining and Exploration Co. (WME)-this work continues to date.

In 1995, I returned to school in Anthropology on a part-time basis while
doing my mineral industry consulting and teaching at Yavapai College.  I
completed a MA degree in Anthropology from Northern Arizona University with
and emphasis on Historical Archaeology of the minerla industry and the use
of Remote Sensing (Airbourne and Archaeogeophysics) to find and delineate
buried Historical Era archaeological sites and features being granted in
2006.  I have hope of doing a Ph.D. In the UK to find the "lost" second day
battle site of the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland through the use of
advanced remote sensing technologies (archageochemistry,
archaeobiogeochemistry and archaeogeophysics) BUT I will have to sell one
or more of RICH ORE's properties to be able to afford the very considerable
"out of the EU" tuition and field work costs in the UK.

Currently, I am VERY BUSY as the new President of RICH ORE directing
mineral exploration and development programs in the US Southwest.  In
addition, I am directing (in all of my spare time) WRI archaeogeochemical,
archaeobiogeochemical and archaeogeophysical programs on Historic era sites
in Florida, Arizona, California and Jamaica- all while being disabled and
"cranky" as some of the SHA and CUA colleagues can testify from my rather
poor performance at SHA in Baltimore.

Since 1977, WRI has had a major research interest in finding and
scientifically documenting the physical remains of early colonial
expeditions to the Americas where circumstances led the participants of
these expeditions to live in harmony (or disharmony in the case of the 4th
Columbus Expedition) with Native American groups.

For fun, Dr. Brackett and I are Renaissance reenactors who portray our
ancestors who were active in the Court of Mary, Queen of Scots in the year
1562.
She portrays a Court Alcehemist, which is perfect since she is a Professor
of Chemistry at CSUS and love to tech "young folk" about the reality of
16th Century science. I portray my ancestor, William Lundin, who was a
Baron and Coal Merchant  who had the exclusive right to mine and sell
Scottish coal and make gunpowder for the Scottish Crown.

My Apologies for the length!

Sincerely,

Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP, AIPG