photo: Yanta, Piura, Peru As I finally got this website up and running, I went through some of my old-field photos and found a picture of a more youthful me in 2006 with a group of major investors at the site of the Rio Blanco Project (not this photo). Rio Blanco was promising copper porphyry deposit on Peru’s border with Ecuador and I had been hired to lead and produce a social and environmental baseline study on the Ecuadorian side. Everyone in the photo was smiling, and wh