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Dr. Jan Krasoń, one of the world's most prominent geologists, president and founder of Geoexplorers International Inc., died in Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, January 21, at 83. This outstanding scientist, who sparked the shale gas revolution in Poland, lost his long battle with cancer.

Dr. Jan Krasoń, Polish geologist, founder and CEO at Geoexplorers International, Inc. passed away on January 21, 2015 in Denver, Colorado, after a long battle with cancer.

The company from Lubin wants to obtain gas from copper deposits located in Lower Silesia. Thus, it intends to solve the problem with high methane concentrations in mines.

A great Polish authority made Americans interested in shale gas. He first told the Americans that Poland was a gas Eldorado. They believed him because he was an expert trusted by the world's largest exploration companies. Jan Krasoń, a Pole who had lived in the United States for over 40 years, was a world-renowned geologist.

It is commonly believed that Americans have become interested in shale gas exploration in Poland in their own interest. Simply the biggest American prospecting companies suddenly came up with an idea to look for this gas not somewhere else but right here.

From the beginning of the existence of the Żelazny Most tailings pond, legends circulated that the Japanese wanted to buy it. They were supposed to gain much higher income from it than KGHM from the exploitation of copper ore deposits. However, there was no evidence of this anywhere. Under the pressure of this legend, analyses and research on its development were constantly conducted. There are already about one billion tons of this waste.

Apart from all the commemorative, historical, and memoiristic issues, what draws our attention are the two papers presented here, which demonstrate a radical change in policy on the exploration and development of new copper ore deposits. So far, these were mainly concepts for the purchase of operating and active mines of this raw material in Canada and South and North America. But, as mentioned, a complete change of front has taken place here.