The Denver Post, Colorado, 28 June 2015
Dorinda Kathryn Bair died peacefully on the evening of April 29, 2015, surrounded by friends and family.
Dorinda grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, born there on August 7, 1963 to Clara Elnora Bair (nee Barker) and Frank John Bair. Dorinda's parents passed away while she was a young girl, she spent many difficult and character building years in foster care.
She is survived by her brother Jonathan Bair, her sister Selma Bair, nieces Errin, Jennifer and Shelley, her best childhood friend and confidant, Christy Schoonover, and her spouse, Roger Melick.
She attended North Idaho College where she received an Associate of Arts degree in graphic arts and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in geology, and attended Colorado School of Mines in a geochemistry track. She attended the Juneau Icefield Research Program where she developed her love for Alaska and the people she met and worked with there. Dorinda worked underground at the A.J. Mine (Alaska-Juneau Mine) from 1986 until 1993, and at Round Mountain and McCoy Cove in Nevada for Echo Bay Mines. Her dearest memories were of Juneau, Douglas Island, of Nevada and her friends there and her work mapping and interpreting the geology.
Her speciality is in mesothermal gold deposits, though she loved a good gossan, mapped porphyries, couldn't stay away from skarns and actively sought out greisens and pegmatites in her free time. Being quite good at it, she amassed a lot of very neat rocks. Dorinda was a well respected, well educated, well travelled and highly skilled geologist. As a resource geologist she visited and mapped a wide variety of mineral deposits in sometimes harsh, treacherous, desolate conditions, often in less than optimum weather, carrying too much gear. On the weekends during good weather she could often be found at one of her gem claims mining for topaz with her husband. Her favorite stone was gem olivine, also known as peridot. Dorinda was a member of SEG, AIPG, and held a Public Geologic Certification (sic, Certified Professional Geologist).
She was a past member of the Denver Orchid Society. Dorinda was a geologist, naturalist, and a fiber artist. She was a mountain climber and backcountry skier. She could bushwhack for miles in terrain that turned most people back. She created woven and knitted treasures from thread she spun from her prized spinning wheel. Her most recent project left unfinished was a lacy green-colored tunic called "Bleeding Hearts". Dorinda mined some of the finest topaz found in North America.
She was a mushroom hunter extraordinaire, always finding the first morel. Organic gardening and permaculture were a passion with her and she cultivated award-winning orchids, her favorites being paphiopedalums, or "slipper orchids", but she fell in love with flowers the size of gnats. She loved the odd, unusual, offcolor, colorful, bizarre, beautiful and brilliant all around her and surrounded herself with it.
Dorinda was a voracious reader, a technical writer, she enjoyed epic tales that spanned time and space. Though she always complained of being a slow reader, her library is extensive and voluminous. Music, in particular regional music from places around the globe where she worked was central to her life. She had a music room, several guitars, dulcimers and a violin. She played beautiful classical guitar and regrets she didn't spend more time with it.
Dorinda was an epicurean with a taste for adventure and culture. She had a true love for life. Her saphron mead, pickled peppers, mango chutney were legendary and her culinary artistry will be greatly missed. She regrets leaving us so suddenly and did her best to say goodbye to all she loved and cherished. Goodbye Dear Dorinda, May You Rest In Peace.
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Geologist with more than 27 years of U.S. and international experience in mineral exploration, mining (feasibility-operations) and environmental projects. She graduated from Lewis-Clark State College with a Bachelor's Degree in Geology in 1987 and took graduate level classes in geochemistry at Colorado School of Mines between 1995-2004. She was a Principal Geologist with SRK Consulting based in Lakewood, Colorado and was a Certified Professional Geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists.
Dorinda Kathryn Bair died peacefully on the evening of April 29, 2015, surrounded by friends and family.
Dorinda grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, born there on August 7, 1963 to Clara Elnora Bair (nee Barker) and Frank John Bair. Dorinda's parents passed away while she was a young girl, she spent many difficult and character building years in foster care.
She is survived by her brother Jonathan Bair, her sister Selma Bair, nieces Errin, Jennifer and Shelley, her best childhood friend and confidant, Christy Schoonover, and her spouse, Roger Melick.
She attended North Idaho College where she received an Associate of Arts degree in graphic arts and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in geology, and attended Colorado School of Mines in a geochemistry track. She attended the Juneau Icefield Research Program where she developed her love for Alaska and the people she met and worked with there. Dorinda worked underground at the A.J. Mine (Alaska-Juneau Mine) from 1986 until 1993, and at Round Mountain and McCoy Cove in Nevada for Echo Bay Mines. Her dearest memories were of Juneau, Douglas Island, of Nevada and her friends there and her work mapping and interpreting the geology.
Her speciality is in mesothermal gold deposits, though she loved a good gossan, mapped porphyries, couldn't stay away from skarns and actively sought out greisens and pegmatites in her free time. Being quite good at it, she amassed a lot of very neat rocks. Dorinda was a well respected, well educated, well travelled and highly skilled geologist. As a resource geologist she visited and mapped a wide variety of mineral deposits in sometimes harsh, treacherous, desolate conditions, often in less than optimum weather, carrying too much gear. On the weekends during good weather she could often be found at one of her gem claims mining for topaz with her husband. Her favorite stone was gem olivine, also known as peridot. Dorinda was a member of SEG, AIPG, and held a Public Geologic Certification (sic, Certified Professional Geologist).
She was a past member of the Denver Orchid Society. Dorinda was a geologist, naturalist, and a fiber artist. She was a mountain climber and backcountry skier. She could bushwhack for miles in terrain that turned most people back. She created woven and knitted treasures from thread she spun from her prized spinning wheel. Her most recent project left unfinished was a lacy green-colored tunic called "Bleeding Hearts". Dorinda mined some of the finest topaz found in North America.
She was a mushroom hunter extraordinaire, always finding the first morel. Organic gardening and permaculture were a passion with her and she cultivated award-winning orchids, her favorites being paphiopedalums, or "slipper orchids", but she fell in love with flowers the size of gnats. She loved the odd, unusual, offcolor, colorful, bizarre, beautiful and brilliant all around her and surrounded herself with it.
Dorinda was a voracious reader, a technical writer, she enjoyed epic tales that spanned time and space. Though she always complained of being a slow reader, her library is extensive and voluminous. Music, in particular regional music from places around the globe where she worked was central to her life. She had a music room, several guitars, dulcimers and a violin. She played beautiful classical guitar and regrets she didn't spend more time with it.
Dorinda was an epicurean with a taste for adventure and culture. She had a true love for life. Her saphron mead, pickled peppers, mango chutney were legendary and her culinary artistry will be greatly missed. She regrets leaving us so suddenly and did her best to say goodbye to all she loved and cherished. Goodbye Dear Dorinda, May You Rest In Peace.
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Geologist with more than 27 years of U.S. and international experience in mineral exploration, mining (feasibility-operations) and environmental projects. She graduated from Lewis-Clark State College with a Bachelor's Degree in Geology in 1987 and took graduate level classes in geochemistry at Colorado School of Mines between 1995-2004. She was a Principal Geologist with SRK Consulting based in Lakewood, Colorado and was a Certified Professional Geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists.
The Denver Post, Colorado, 28 June 2015
Dorinda Kathryn Bair died peacefully on the evening of April 29, 2015, surrounded by friends and family.
Dorinda grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, born there on August 7, 1963 to Clara Elnora Bair (nee Barker) and Frank John Bair. Dorinda's parents passed away while she was a young girl, she spent many difficult and character building years in foster care.
She is survived by her brother Jonathan Bair, her sister Selma Bair, nieces Errin, Jennifer and Shelley, her best childhood friend and confidant, Christy Schoonover, and her spouse, Roger Melick.
She attended North Idaho College where she received an Associate of Arts degree in graphic arts and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in geology, and attended Colorado School of Mines in a geochemistry track. She attended the Juneau Icefield Research Program where she developed her love for Alaska and the people she met and worked with there. Dorinda worked underground at the A.J. Mine (Alaska-Juneau Mine) from 1986 until 1993, and at Round Mountain and McCoy Cove in Nevada for Echo Bay Mines. Her dearest memories were of Juneau, Douglas Island, of Nevada and her friends there and her work mapping and interpreting the geology.
Her speciality is in mesothermal gold deposits, though she loved a good gossan, mapped porphyries, couldn't stay away from skarns and actively sought out greisens and pegmatites in her free time. Being quite good at it, she amassed a lot of very neat rocks. Dorinda was a well respected, well educated, well travelled and highly skilled geologist. As a resource geologist she visited and mapped a wide variety of mineral deposits in sometimes harsh, treacherous, desolate conditions, often in less than optimum weather, carrying too much gear. On the weekends during good weather she could often be found at one of her gem claims mining for topaz with her husband. Her favorite stone was gem olivine, also known as peridot. Dorinda was a member of SEG, AIPG, and held a Public Geologic Certification (sic, Certified Professional Geologist).
She was a past member of the Denver Orchid Society. Dorinda was a geologist, naturalist, and a fiber artist. She was a mountain climber and backcountry skier. She could bushwhack for miles in terrain that turned most people back. She created woven and knitted treasures from thread she spun from her prized spinning wheel. Her most recent project left unfinished was a lacy green-colored tunic called "Bleeding Hearts". Dorinda mined some of the finest topaz found in North America.
She was a mushroom hunter extraordinaire, always finding the first morel. Organic gardening and permaculture were a passion with her and she cultivated award-winning orchids, her favorites being paphiopedalums, or "slipper orchids", but she fell in love with flowers the size of gnats. She loved the odd, unusual, offcolor, colorful, bizarre, beautiful and brilliant all around her and surrounded herself with it.
Dorinda was a voracious reader, a technical writer, she enjoyed epic tales that spanned time and space. Though she always complained of being a slow reader, her library is extensive and voluminous. Music, in particular regional music from places around the globe where she worked was central to her life. She had a music room, several guitars, dulcimers and a violin. She played beautiful classical guitar and regrets she didn't spend more time with it.
Dorinda was an epicurean with a taste for adventure and culture. She had a true love for life. Her saphron mead, pickled peppers, mango chutney were legendary and her culinary artistry will be greatly missed. She regrets leaving us so suddenly and did her best to say goodbye to all she loved and cherished. Goodbye Dear Dorinda, May You Rest In Peace.
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Geologist with more than 27 years of U.S. and international experience in mineral exploration, mining (feasibility-operations) and environmental projects. She graduated from Lewis-Clark State College with a Bachelor's Degree in Geology in 1987 and took graduate level classes in geochemistry at Colorado School of Mines between 1995-2004. She was a Principal Geologist with SRK Consulting based in Lakewood, Colorado and was a Certified Professional Geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists.
Dorinda Kathryn Bair died peacefully on the evening of April 29, 2015, surrounded by friends and family.
Dorinda grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, born there on August 7, 1963 to Clara Elnora Bair (nee Barker) and Frank John Bair. Dorinda's parents passed away while she was a young girl, she spent many difficult and character building years in foster care.
She is survived by her brother Jonathan Bair, her sister Selma Bair, nieces Errin, Jennifer and Shelley, her best childhood friend and confidant, Christy Schoonover, and her spouse, Roger Melick.
She attended North Idaho College where she received an Associate of Arts degree in graphic arts and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in geology, and attended Colorado School of Mines in a geochemistry track. She attended the Juneau Icefield Research Program where she developed her love for Alaska and the people she met and worked with there. Dorinda worked underground at the A.J. Mine (Alaska-Juneau Mine) from 1986 until 1993, and at Round Mountain and McCoy Cove in Nevada for Echo Bay Mines. Her dearest memories were of Juneau, Douglas Island, of Nevada and her friends there and her work mapping and interpreting the geology.
Her speciality is in mesothermal gold deposits, though she loved a good gossan, mapped porphyries, couldn't stay away from skarns and actively sought out greisens and pegmatites in her free time. Being quite good at it, she amassed a lot of very neat rocks. Dorinda was a well respected, well educated, well travelled and highly skilled geologist. As a resource geologist she visited and mapped a wide variety of mineral deposits in sometimes harsh, treacherous, desolate conditions, often in less than optimum weather, carrying too much gear. On the weekends during good weather she could often be found at one of her gem claims mining for topaz with her husband. Her favorite stone was gem olivine, also known as peridot. Dorinda was a member of SEG, AIPG, and held a Public Geologic Certification (sic, Certified Professional Geologist).
She was a past member of the Denver Orchid Society. Dorinda was a geologist, naturalist, and a fiber artist. She was a mountain climber and backcountry skier. She could bushwhack for miles in terrain that turned most people back. She created woven and knitted treasures from thread she spun from her prized spinning wheel. Her most recent project left unfinished was a lacy green-colored tunic called "Bleeding Hearts". Dorinda mined some of the finest topaz found in North America.
She was a mushroom hunter extraordinaire, always finding the first morel. Organic gardening and permaculture were a passion with her and she cultivated award-winning orchids, her favorites being paphiopedalums, or "slipper orchids", but she fell in love with flowers the size of gnats. She loved the odd, unusual, offcolor, colorful, bizarre, beautiful and brilliant all around her and surrounded herself with it.
Dorinda was a voracious reader, a technical writer, she enjoyed epic tales that spanned time and space. Though she always complained of being a slow reader, her library is extensive and voluminous. Music, in particular regional music from places around the globe where she worked was central to her life. She had a music room, several guitars, dulcimers and a violin. She played beautiful classical guitar and regrets she didn't spend more time with it.
Dorinda was an epicurean with a taste for adventure and culture. She had a true love for life. Her saphron mead, pickled peppers, mango chutney were legendary and her culinary artistry will be greatly missed. She regrets leaving us so suddenly and did her best to say goodbye to all she loved and cherished. Goodbye Dear Dorinda, May You Rest In Peace.
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Geologist with more than 27 years of U.S. and international experience in mineral exploration, mining (feasibility-operations) and environmental projects. She graduated from Lewis-Clark State College with a Bachelor's Degree in Geology in 1987 and took graduate level classes in geochemistry at Colorado School of Mines between 1995-2004. She was a Principal Geologist with SRK Consulting based in Lakewood, Colorado and was a Certified Professional Geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists.
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