It has been a record dry season in southern California. You would not know this by looking at the lush vegetation, abundant flowers, and vast pools of the townhouse complex and everywhere else in this piece of paradise. The beach is cloud-covered all day long as the desert heats up pumping great masses of evaporation inland and [...]
Archive for May, 2007
The Current Mining Scene and Drought
Posted in About the news on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Travel with kids
Posted in About the news on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On a whim, we left the farm in Iowa and set off across country with three young kids in a new Ford Focus piled high and packed to the brim. We followed the old Lincoln Highway through Iowa and then along the Platte River through Nebraska; hence down the north-east corner of Colorado to traverse [...]
Virtual mining with computer games
Posted in About the news, Software on May 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Playing computer games is for everyone. Here is my take at four computer games relevant to mining. Before we look at the games, let me state emphatically my basic beliefs re computer games and mining. I think it a waste of money to develop glossy brochures to hand out to students in order to encourage [...]
British Columbia’s mining industry posted record results in ’06
Posted in About the news, North America on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NEWS RELEASE FROM PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS British Columbia’s mining industry posted another year of record financial results in 2006, driven primarily by increased global demand and higher coal and metals prices. Net income reached Can$2.35 billion in 2006, up 27.6% from $1.84 billion in 2005—the highest level in the 39 year history of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) annual survey [...]
NPV as sound management or future myth
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Not being a financial wizard. I have never really turned my mind to the concept of Net Present Value (NPV). I have always been amazed by what happens when you take the NPV past thirty years: everything Is free? So I cannot resist quoting the following from somebody whose work I admire and with whom [...]
Australian mining perspectives on aboriginal rights and mine development
Posted in About the news, Australia and New Zealand, Community relations, Human relations and mining on May 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here is a piece from a friend in Australia. I enjoy his perspective which I offer here for your consideration. This problem of aboriginals, and their tie to the land, and societal greed to exploit what is in the land but would otherwise go un-beneficiated is as strong here in Australia as anywhere. We WASPs [...]
Senator Byrd, a politician from the mines and for the mines
Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining, North America, People on May 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Of how many senators can the following be written? I quote from Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope, simply to share a piece on mining-related trivia.
Thelon Basin and the Dene: must mining give way to holy ground?
Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining, North America on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A woodpecker has spent the last two days assiduously pecking away at a hole in the siding just outside my study. He was making fine progress towards the insulation long ago pumped in through the tiny hole. Knowing his efforts were misdirected, and, irritated by the constant banging, I covered the hole with a metal [...]
The future of block caving from CIM: advanced modeling leads to advanced practices
Posted in About the news, Geotechnical on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The best part of sitting through conference presentations is when, all of a sudden, you realize this speaker is fresh, vital, intelligent, and has something new to tell. You have just sat through, or dodged, those jaded presentations by old professors bewailing the absence of students, funding, or acceptance of their ideas. You have just [...]
Cameco admits Cigar Lake mistakes: is it the system or the people?
Posted in About the news, Geotechnical, North America, Policy and procedure, Uranium on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We take no pleasure in seeing a mining venture fail. We can admire the courage of those who admit to failure. We cannot but wonder why it took so long to notice the failure and come clean. I refer, of course, to the recent admission by Gerald Grandey, Cameco’s chief executive that mistakes were made [...]
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