The U.S. Geological Survey team in Haines for the past several weeks has finished up its work and moved on to the Ketchikan area.
The crew, headed by Ed Mackevett, was here to do geochemical prospecting and reconnaissance geological mapping in the Porcupine district. Ed Mackevett and his assistant, Gary Winkler, were here since late June prospecting and collecting on foot. More recently, the vessel Don j. Miller, with more men and a helicopter aboard,…