The boat “Moeve” Our property in Langendorf was about six acres in size. Three acres made up the lower portion and reached to the street which wound its way through the village of Langendorf. The next acre was a steep slope, the natural edge of the Biele river flood plain. Then there were two flat […]

Karsten Rist Jimmy Carter was little known outside of his home state of Georgia, where he had served as governor, when he announced that he would run for president. During his primary campaign for the democratic nomination his victory in Florida was of special significance because it gave Carter’s campaign a much needed boost and […]

Karsten Rist In the spring of 1945 my mother, my grandmother, my sister Inge and I were living in a small apartment in Hirschberg (Silesia) in an apartment house which was owned by my grandmother. We had fled there in January of the same year when a russian offensive had overrun Upper Silesia (Oberschlesien) My […]

Paris or Bust! Karsten Rist After graduating from high school in Moers my friend Werner Moehlendick and I worked for a year under the supervision of the German Bureau of Mines as “Bergbeflissene”, a requirement for admission to a Technical University to become mining engineers. We worked in different mines to get a well rounded […]

Karsten Rist   I could hardly believe my eyes. The e-mail on the computer screen in front of me came from a PhD student in mining at the University of Porto in Portugal. He asked: ”are you the author of a paper Computer Simulation for Solution of a Mine Transportation Problem? I am trying to locate […]

Cross Country Skiing to Camp Hale Spring 1960 Karsten Rist One of my good friends at the Climax Molybdenum Mine was Gene Grossman. He was a mining engineer and lived with his wife Ruth and their three small children in Leadville. Gene liked the outdoors and enjoyed exploring the mountains and valleys which surrounded Leadville. […]

Karsten Rist In the summer of 1959 I returned from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Leadville, Colorado. I had just finished my first year of MBA studies at the University of Michigan. I had a summer job with the Climax Molybdenum Company to do surveying in the mountains surrounding the Climax mine. On one of my free weekends I decided to […]

Coming to America Karsten Rist In the summer of 1955 I worked at a tungsten mine in the town of Yxsjoeberg in Sweden, an experience which broadened my outlook and motivated me to want to see more of the world. What better place to go than America, the leader in the mechanization of mining work, […]

Karsten Rist An aspiring mining engineer in Germany is required to work for one year in a variety of mining operations under the supervision of the bureau of mines (Bergamt) before starting four years of study at a technical university. Once enrolled at the technical university we were pretty much left to our own devices. […]

Karsten Rist Adventures with Section 404(b)(1) Guidelines. In October of 1980 we moved from Plantation to Miami. I continued my involvement with Audubon which had started in Broward County and became active in the Tropical Audubon Society. In July of 1987 developer Raul Planas filed a dredge and fill application for a large golf course […]

Karsten Rist March 22, 1994 As the summer of 1955 approached I was about to complete my third year of studies in the field of mining engineering. In the previous years I had used these summers to work in a number of different mining operations, as much to make money as to learn more about […]