If you have just come across this posting, welcome. It seems to rank high with Google. The topic being mining salaries, wages, and executive compensation that is understandable. There is indeed information on salaries in this posting, so please read on. May I, however, urge you also to take a look at more recent [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Mining engineers’ starting salaries in top ten
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged graduate, mining, NACE, salary on March 31, 2010 | 27 Comments »
Mining Consultants – who are they and what are they
Posted in consulting, tagged consultant, mining on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have spent the past thirty to forty years as a consultant, primarily to the mining industry. There was a ten-year time-out when I consulted to the California landfill industry in order to tide over one of those down-turns in the mining industry. But for the past five years I have been back at [...]
China mining: Rio Tinto and more deaths by a thousand cuts
Posted in About the news, Asia, Law (Mining), tagged bribery, China, corruption, Rio Tinto on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We note without comment this statement by Rio Tinto on their web site regarding the conviction of executives for taking bribes:
Nevada mining tax and fee fight
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, North America, tagged fee, miing, Mineweb, Nevada, nevada mining association, tax on March 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The details are murky and muddled. The report at this link explains some of it, the worst part being; The Nevada mining industry is now under pressure from a petition being circulated by labor unions, conservation groups, teachers’ unions and others which would remove constitutional protections for taxation of Nevada mining. A district court [...]
A brief note on Oil Sands mining people
Posted in environmental, Law (Mining), North America, Oil sands, tagged Fort McMurray, Oil sands, Tailings and Mine Waste on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am back in Fort McMurray where the temperature is going down to minus thirty tonight. I am involved in consulting to folk who work the oil sands mines. Most is confidential although some of it is already in technical papers that you can easily find under my name in the InfoMine library; and other papers [...]
Nevada mining tax ballot by health conscious voters opposed by mining industry
Posted in Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, North America, tagged ballot, Nevada, tax on March 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
From FOX 5 News in Las Vegas come this report: A lawyer representing the mining industry says they will consider appealing after a Carson City judge refused to block a ballot measure that would dramatically increase mining taxes. The Nevadans for Fair Mining Taxes initiative would amend the state constitution. The judge agreed it [...]
Sex, Opera, and Weekend Mining
Posted in Oil sands, opera, Reclamation, tagged carmen, Goldcorp, handel, mining, Oil sands, opera, partenope, sex, simon boccangera on March 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The weekend is past. Saturday we went to see the Met Opera Simon Boccanegra. No overt sex, but lots of innuendo tantamount to incest. Then there was intrigue, revolt, and regicide. Tonight, we watched Partenope, a Handel opera; as I have said before Handel is pure sex to music—or pure music to sex, if you [...]
Practical theories of mining theory and practice
Posted in brandy, health and safety, Human relations and mining, tagged alice, avatar, mining, practice, theory, wonderland on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
These past two days I have been in that dreaded institution: meetings to decide on what theory to apply to practice. All in a mining context of course. Midway through another grueling session, the old man (not me) of the group produced a piece of paper with this written on it. It is so true [...]
No Mining Twitter please; or more mining twitter please?
Posted in blogs, tagged blogs, mining, twitter on March 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I do not know how to access or use Twitter of Facebook. I am listed by various people in Linkin, but I cannot get to the site. Every time I try they ask for information about me that I can’t or do not wish to provide. I know a student who is working on a [...]
Malema and Mining Opponents–including Bill C-300
Posted in Africa, Church, Community relations, Law (Mining), mining, tagged Bill C-300, malema. south africa. nationalize, mining on March 16, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Julius Malema has called for the nationalization of South Africa’s mines. I have warned investors to stay away from South African mines as long as Malema and his ilk are rampant. A new report on Malema and those who seek to gain control of first world mining operations also reveals much about the motivations of [...]
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