W. Dan Hausel

1949

Considered by many as the most productive geologist in the history of the Wyoming Geological Survey at the University of Wyoming, and one of the more productive geologists in the history of Wyoming. Over a 30-year period, he differentiated the complex Precambrian geology associated with Wyoming's greenstone belts and old mining districts, mapped most of the accessible underground gold and copper mines, mapped the two largest diamond-bearing kimberlite districts in the US, mapped the largest lamproite field in North America, and proved that Wyoming had been overlooked as a major source for gold

• Minerals & Rocks of Wyoming
• Diamond Deposits - Origin, Exploration, and History of Discovery
• Cordierite (Iolite) and Corundum (Sapphire-Ruby)
• Searching for Placer Diamonds
• Copper, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum and Associated Metal Deposits of Wyoming
• Diamonds
• Diamonds & Mantle Source Rocks in the Wyoming Craton
• Economic geology of the Copper Mountain supracrustal belt, Owl Creek Mountains, Fremont County, Wyoming
• Economic Geology of the Iron Mountain Kimberlite District
• Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains mining district, Carbon County, Wyoming (Report of investigations)
• Economic Geology of the South Pass Granite-Greenstone Belt, Southern Wind River Range, Western Wyoming
• Exploration for diamond-bearing kimberlite in Colorado and Wyoming