W. Dan Hausel

Considered by many as the most productive geologist in the history of the Wyoming Geological Survey at the University of Wyoming, and one of the more productive geologists in the history of Wyoming. Over a 30-year period, he differentiated the complex Precambrian geology associated with Wyoming's greenstone belts and old mining districts, mapped most of the accessible underground gold and copper mines, mapped the two largest diamond-bearing kimberlite districts in the US, mapped the largest lamproite field in North America, …