RICHARD VON LUSCH was born in 1912 in Phillipsburg New Jersey of German Irish parents who died before Richard was aged 3. He lived in a foster home until age 11 when he was sent to an orphanage. At age 12 he was sent to a farm where he worked for board, clothes, and twenty five cents a week. Leaving the farm at age 17 to earn his fortune as the Horatio Alger stories said he could, he faced the cold hard facts of life; without skills you became a laborer pushing wheelbarrows, operating a jack hammer, laboring in a greenhouse, and a host of other menial jobs. It took about a year to make him realize there was no decent future without education, which took him years to get.
Since that time he has been a machinist, toolmaker, engineer, plant manager, research director, free lance consultant for industry and governments, professor of engineering, professional soldier, amateur geologist, prospector, and gold miner. In addition he has designed and built mining machinery. Treasure hunting is his greatest love. During this time he has sandwiched in writing monthly for 6 years for a slick magazine and many articles to other magazines.
In recent years he has overcome cancer, been revived from death, managed to break his hip from which he is now recovering, and is looking for new fields to conquer.
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