The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual conference begins tomorrow in Toronto. Everybody with a mining prospect will be there. Many looking for potentially profitable mining prospects will be there. InfoMine will be in a booth to help you. Many of us are left behind to blog about whatever we can scrap [...]
Archive for February, 2009
PDAC mining exploration and development in Toronto
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, tagged books, core, exploration, investment, mining, PDAC on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fraser Institute Survey of Mining Companies 2008/2009. Good weekend reading.
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, tagged country rankings, exploration, Fraser Institute, mining on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year’s Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies 2008/2009 is better than ever, even though the message is gloomier than ever. As they do each year, the Fraser Institute once again compiled answers to questionnaires it sent out to miners. The miners are asked to rank countries and the states and provinces of [...]
US Coal Mine Salaries 2008
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, tagged 2008, coal mine, CostMine, salary, US on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have previously blogged about US coal mine wages. Now it is time to turn our attention to US coal mine salaries. Specifically what do those middle of the road, conservative folk like engineers, scientists, and secretaries make. You know them; they are the folk who believe they are underpaid. Let us find out if [...]
Oil Sands, National Geographic, and Dead Ptarmigans
Posted in About the news, First Nations, Global Warming, Human relations and mining, Oil sands, People, Reclamation, tagged dead, ducks, First Nation, forests, Jim Boucher, mining, National Geographic, Oil sands, Pond 1, ptarmigans on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As a blogger I reserve the right to be wrong. I reserve the right to attack folly and verbal excess. I reserve the right to criticise the National Geographic and First Nations. I reserve the right to defend dead ducks, dead ptarmigans, the oil sands, and Fort McMurray.
SME uranium mine tailings reclamation
Posted in About the news, decomissioning, Software, tagged BRS, Carlson Natural Regrade, Hutson, mine, Reclamation, Riverton, SME, Tailings, Uranium, Wyoming on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another paper from the SME CD Preprints that I enjoyed and recommend is Application of Best Available Technology to Reclamation Design and Integration with Mine Planning by H.J. Hutson of BRS Inc. in Riverton, Wyoming.
SME, climate change, and mining risks & challenges
Posted in About the news, Enviromental, Global Warming, tagged Diavik, Ekati, fire, floods, Global Warming, mining, Rio Tinto, SME on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
SME is over and now we have time to slip the CD of Preprints into the computer to read the technical papers. The sad part is that most of those who presented talks did not bother to prepare a paper. And no provision has been made to collect, disseminate, or archive their PowerPoint presentations. [...]
SME on Crandall Canyon and mining bumps
Posted in About the news, tagged Crandall Canyon. coal mine. bumps, death, disaster, NIOSH, SME on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This morning’s session on Coal Bumps and Seismicity gave us some background to the Crandall Canyon disaster. Fisrt a magnificent presentation by J Whyatt on a review of case studies presented in 1958 at an SEM Bump Symposium. He re-read the papers from 1958 and noted that almost everything that happened in Utah had been [...]
SME the serious and unintentionally funny
Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries, tagged blasting, human resource management, sustainable mining, waste on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The only way to summarize this afternoon’s technical sessions at the SME conference is to record the “wisdom” scattered on the PowerPoint presentations. Here are some I noted from a talk on sustainable human resource management given by a headhunter:: Why waste a good crises - layoff the deadwood and hire the experts. Why don’t [...]
SME civil versus mining tunnelling
Posted in About the news, Underground, tagged drift, mining, NIOSH, Rio Tinto, SME, tunnel on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rapid construction is the key to success in mining. Alan Moss of Rio Tinto heads up the research part of Rio TInto in Vancouver. In a fine speech this morning at the SME conference he told us how a program he is managing is succeeding in find new ways to drive drifts faster [...]
SME sustainable mining in Iowa and Wisconsin
Posted in About the news, tagged Fairmount Industrial Minerals, Iowa, mining, quarry, R. Budinger, SME, sustainable mining, Wisconsin on February 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Funny how conference presentations are replete with references to sustainability. The talkers all use the term. Yet they all shrug in quiet embarrassment at using the term. It is not hard to fathom why. Everybody you talk to jokes about the concept.
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