What does it actually take to find and pull minerals out of the ground — and why is the Western world falling behind? In Episode 6 of Crude Awakenings, we trade black gold for the real thing. Our guest is Lewis Teal, a Certified Professional Geologist with 40 years in the mining industry, 27 of them at Newmont, where he helped lead exploration on Nevada's legendary Carlin Trend and ran operations from Peru to Suriname to French Guiana. He's also the first boss one of your hosts ever had coming out of grad school — so this one's personal.