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Sunday Ruminations: Religion versus Mining Jobs

Posted in Church, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, People, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

    On a Sunday, one may be forgiven for ruminating on the role of religion in mining.  The story at this link prompts new ideas on the choice between a life of impecunious devotion and financial security come from a job on a mine; here are some extracts:

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Geotechnical Engineering for Mine GeoWaste Facilities

Posted in Geology, Geotechnical, Heap leach, Reclamation, Waste Rock, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

    This week, EduMine posted a new course that I wrote.  As is the title of this posting, the new course is called Geotechnical Engineering for Mine GeoWaste Facilities.   I was prompted to write the course when I was called on to explain to a client who is not a geotechnical engineer what is involved in geotechnical engineering.  This [...]

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Goldcorp’s Guatemala Marlin Mine Shut Down

Posted in Community relations, Investing & Finance, Latin America, tagged , , on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Late breaking news from an e-mail just received.  And this is sad news.  This is the result of concerted false information disseminated by interested parties.  It stands as a sober reminder to all miners and investors of the importance of keeping abreast of local politics, NGO activities, and lies, damn lies, and statistics.  It proves [...]

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Ruddy Australian Mining Tax Kills PM

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Investing & Finance, People, tagged , , , on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

   The end of the story is neat and tidy:  Rudd, the former Australian Prime Minister is out and a new lady is in.  Rudd was outed (or is it ousted) in part by his bungled attempt to foist a 40% tax on Australia’s mining industry.   For the mining industry and shareholders thereof, this is [...]

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BC Museum of Mining

Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   Over the weekend, we drove up to Squamish and on the way back stopped at the British Columbia Museum of Mining, sometimes called the Britannia Beach Mining Museum.  With my son, daughter-in-law, and two and a half year-old grand-daughter, we took the obligatory tour of the underground workings and panned for gold.  First we rode deep [...]

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Afghanistan & Australian mining and other weekend thoughts

Posted in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Enviromental, Investing & Finance, tagged , , , on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   Friday is upon us, so here are a few idle thoughts to ponder over the weekend.   Re Afghanistan mining, I refer you to this link where we read:  A Chinese state-owned firm has already been awarded the concession for a copper mine in eastern Afghanistan.  Many mining industry executives say they expect the Chinese [...]

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Red Dog and Throwing Pebbles at Mines

Posted in Hydrology and hydraulics, Investing & Finance, Mining history, North America, tagged , , on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   I have been entertaining my son and his family in Vancouver this week, so I resort for a blog topic to another of the fascinating e-mails that arrive from various people.  The one I write about came from a fellow who introduces himself thus in his first e-mail to me:

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Afghanistan mining and the U.S. Navy versus opium and agriculture

Posted in About the news, Asia, blogs, tagged , , , , , , on June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

         Sitting in the 8:30pm sun of Fort McMurray reading e-mails, I saw this one from my son, who is in the U.S. Navy station in the Pentagon in Washington, DC–he states:  “Interesting…maybe it will change the course and purpose of the war!” 

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Metals and Mining for Investors: EduMine Course & Resource

Posted in Investing & Finance, tagged , , on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   From time to time on this blog, I comment on engineering and technical issues that affect the price of the shares of mining companies.  As an example of the technical issues that affect share price, consider the most current example:  BP’s share price is falling as a result of the blow out of a well.   [...]

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Salaries of consulting mining engineers

Posted in consulting, Jobs and Salaries, tagged , , on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »

    In my e-mail in-box was this request: I was wondering if you could give me some idea of what Consultants are making (Mining Engineer with 6-8 years experience). You’ve mentioned that consultants are well paid but I’m interested to know what would be typical – partly because I’m about to take a job with [...]

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