ABSTRACT
This sixty-pound piece of honey onyx was quarried by the sculptor in Utah, where prospecting is not an uncommon avocation. Helaman was guided by two fellows who had modified a four-wheel-drive truck with two fifty-five-gallon oil drums. Each weekend for ten years, the two had driven into the Great Salt Lake Basin to prospect for uranium. Their method was to drive until one drum ran out, then turn toward home. Over the years, they had found everything but uranium-including an outcropping of onyx-the end of a barrel-shaped vein crushed by the weight of a mountain.
