Bradley R. Larsen

Bradley R. Larsen is a geologist with BS (BYU) and MS (University of Utah) degrees in geology. He has worked at the US Geological Survey, Office of Marine Geology, where he participated in many scientific projects; in the oil and gas industries with emphasis on computer geology, core analysis, and mapping; and mining, primarily for gold, specializing in mineralogy and sample analysis (petrography, microscopy, XRD/XRF). He is the author and co-author of twenty-two public-domain publications and numerous in-house scientific reports. Bradley has been providing geologic consulting for the Khor Kharfot project since 2016, including conducting ground-penetrating radar surveys in the area and the discovery of a possible archaeoastronomy site at the location.

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Finding Nephi’s Ore

by Bradley R. Larsen | undefined 63 | 12-13-2024

Abstract: Khor Kharfot and Wadi Sayq are in the region that has become the premiere candidate for Nephi’s Old-World Bountiful. Out of the several matching criteria that has led to this opinion, the one that may be the weakest has been the identification of readily available ore in the area that Nephi could have used […]

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