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Good or Lucky OR Lucky and Good. The geologist Jame David Lowell has a record and a career of which anyone would be proud. However many people who know him, including many of his admirers allude to a certain talent for garnering credit and a tendency to be a little slow at diluting it amongst others.
The question of who did and didn't find any orebody is always a vexed one. I have stood at a function open mouthed with admiration as someone made claims to have done things and been places where he could not possibly be. I egged the bastard on and when he moved on to more elevated company, one of the admiring witnesses introduced me to the circle as the person who had been there and done those things. I have never seen so many people go so silent so fast.
I know exactly who did what in the discovery of Lihir and when, and yet, that zodiac would have had to have been the QE2 to hold all the people I have met who claim to have been there.
So, yeah Lowell is no Walter Mitty and many people try to muscle in on his credit, some of those people have a case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huJ4LGX6YdI