Posted in About the news, tagged Atlas Copco, Bernanke, China, mining, Taiwan, Tibet, war on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Originally uploaded by Kenny Maths
Atlas Copco’s head of Construction and Mining Techniques unit, Bjorn Rosengren says “I have not run into one mining company that sees any problems over the coming three to five years.”
This optimistic statement is nice to read. But it does not counteract the concern brought on by the other news reports of further suppression in Tibet and the fire-sale of US Bear Sterns for $2 a share, down from $169 only a year ago.
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged Canada, Geology, mining, salary on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Originally uploaded by Gurpreet Ghuggi
A short posting to link you to the Globe and Mail article that puts the salary of some starting geologists in the mining industry in Canada at above $100,000 a year. Apparently the average salary for geology undergrads is up from $62,500 in 2004 to $90,700 today.
Posted in Asia, Church, tagged Bishop, Chinese, Marcos, mining, Philippines, pollution, Roman Catholic Church, seven deadly sins on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Presumably these bishops have the support of the Pope? In so tightly controlled an organization, it is hard to believe they speak without official sanction. This is part of a longer report:
Posted in About the news, Community relations, North America, tagged 1972 Mining Law, david blades, Environmental Working Group, Huntington Beach, mining, photo, planet x on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Blades at my take on photography post this photo called Mining Operations on Planet X. Colorful, but strange. Maybe that is the point.
From what I can tell, this is not a mine, but that is not the point. Scare tactics is what appears to be at play here. Much like those reports all over Google on more mines coming closer to your home:
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged coal mine, compensation, mining, salary, wage on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some statistics about wages, salaries, and other compensation for United States coal mines in 2007. The source of my information is CostMine. They provide so much information that I never could summarize it all or do it justice. So here and in a more detailed posting at this link, I give you my impressions and my selection of highlights. You will simply have to get the main volume from them to drill down to your state, region, maybe even mine, and job classification.
Posted in Mining history, North America, tagged hard rock miner, Juneau, mining on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
All due respect to the Juneau Daily Photo for this one called The Hard Rock Miner.
Seems it is a tribute to “Juneau’s rich history of hard rock mining.”
Posted in Coal, health and safety, safety, Underground, tagged Agapito, Crandall Canyon, death, gambling, mining, MSHA, Murray Energy, NIOSH, tragedy on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nine lives gambled and lost on the dice of three numbers: 900; 1,640; or 4,512. These are the three dice-numbers that are at the center of Crandall Canyon’s Murray Energy versus Agapito versus MSHA debacle that turned to tragedy.
Posted in About the news, tagged Equipment, mining, trucks, youtube on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Haul truck, ASARCO mine, Sahuarita, AZ
Originally uploaded by free2camp19
Here is a link to a part of YouTube I will visit only once: umpteen short videos of mining trucks. Kind of dull I thought. But you may enjoy these MTV-type productions if you get a thrill watching big equipment to the strains of old county-western songs.
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