In 1977, film maker George Lucas was coming off the success of a movie called Star Wars. The publicity surrounding the movie had blown up almost overnight, and Lucas needed to escape.
He was kind of a loner, extroverted type of dude, so he headed off to quiet Maui, Hawaii. Another film maker, a friend of George Lucas, by the name of Steven Spielberg was also there vacationing. Spielberg had just finished his movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
As film makers do, they ran some movie ideas by each other.
Spielberg told Lucas that he really wanted to make a James Bond movie.
Lucas got excited, because he had been thinking about developing an American “James-Bond-like” character, without all the fancy gadgets and cars. Lucas loved the old movie serials of his child hood like Flash Gordon, and he had thought of an interesting character named Indiana Smith based on the characters in those old movies.
Lucas told Spielberg his idea was “better than James Bond.”
Spielberg loved it and agreed.
They changed the name of the character to Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, an archeology professor by day, who went on adventures for famous artifacts in his spare time. A legend was born, and Lucas and Spielberg made a lot o’ money off the Indiana Jones movies.
An interesting “Easter Egg” is that they created Indiana Jones to be a James-Bond-like character. In the 3rd movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, they got Sean Connery – who had played James Bond! – to be Indiana Jones’ father.
Anyway, I’m excited because I get to interview a “modern day Indiana Jones.”
This man stakes mining claims, is a mining consultant, and explores abandoned mines in “his spare time”! You can see his non-profit Mojave Underground in action at their website here:
http://www.mojaveunderground.com/mutv-2013-promo-video/
His name is Stuart Burgess, his business is Burgess Exploration, and he is going to be featured in the March issue of Frac Sand Fortunes.
As a mining explorer, Stuart has been “hot on the trail” of frac sand for some time now. He knows what to look for, he knows how to sample, and I am going to provide an “interrogation” of Stuart that would make the bad guys in those Indiana Jones movies proud.
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