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MSHA to Review Mine Tailings Dam Safety

Posted in safety, Tailings, tagged , , , on August 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »

  I have never copied and posted a large amount of test on this blog before.  Yet below I do.  I do this because the issue is fascinating and the information a trifle tedious to find. 

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33 Trapped Chilean Miners

Posted in Latin America, safety, tagged , , on August 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »

13 October 2010:  The message above and the posting below first appeared on this blog soon after the miners were trapped.  Today I heard on the radio that 13 are already out and the rest are being lifted to safety.   Thus we rejoice for their rescue, hold our breath for the rest as they come up, [...]

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BC to share mining tax with First Nations

Posted in About the news, British Columbia, First Nations, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), tagged , , , , , , on August 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »

   Some things just take a long time to come to fruition.  Some say it has taken one hundred years to reach the historic announcements these past days that the BC Provincial government will share tax revenues on two new mines with the First Nations on whose traditional lands the mines are located.  Here is [...]

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Mining Travel & A Broad Mind

Posted in Global Warming, Human relations and mining, Mining history, tagged , , , on August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

    Today, we travel for work, escapism/pleasure, and information.  In the past, the only travellers were soldiers, sailors, warriors, merchants, and crazy adventurers.  Today old ladies go to Turkey to see the sights; in the past only society’s misfits would venture that far.  Think of Alexander and his belligerents travelling from Macedonia to India.  Think [...]

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Cuban Nickel Mines in Chains

Posted in Latin America, People, tagged , , , , on August 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »

       In yesterday’s blog posting (see below) I write of the fact that the glory that was Athens was actually a product of 20,000 slaves working the silver mines. In the case of Cuba, it is in effect, a captive population working the nickel mines.  Let us face the horrible fact that unless you are prepared to [...]

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Athenian Silver Mines at Laurion

Posted in environmental, Europe, Mining history, tagged , , , , on August 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »

     Let us bring crashing down another of those myths: the ancient Greeks were nice folk.  Seems they got most of the money to support their poetry, philosophy, development of “democracy,” and sundry other habits from mining.   It appears that ancient Greece was a society founded on mining, and the money from mining supported a [...]

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Sunday Sermon: Religion in Opera

Posted in Mining history, opera, tagged , , , , , , on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Rossini is one of my favorite opera composers.  Who can resist his comedies?  Last night by comparison, I watched Rossini’s Moise et Pharaon, a distinctly religious work and quite different from the comedies.   The DVD I watched is of a La Scala production of the opera conducted by Ricardo Muti.  The story is of Moses [...]

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Mining jobs in the oil sands and Fort McMurray

Posted in Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, tagged , , , on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

    This is a personal and unscientific survey of jobs in the oil sands and in Fort McMurray.  These few observations are prompted by discussions I have had this week with folk in Fort McMurray this week as I plied my trade on one of the mines.

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How to find a job/career in mining

Posted in consulting, Jobs and Salaries, tagged , , on August 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »

   It may all boil down to who you know and what you know.  How else to find a job and make a career in mining?  These obvious conclusions arise from a series of informal discussion over coffee these past few days. 

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Sunday Mining Sermon: In Memoriam

Posted in Church, People, tagged , , , on August 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

His funeral was yesterday in South Africa.  My ex-wife’s brother died at the age of about 68 last week and they buried him yesterday.  I was not there, but my ex went to show off a new dress and her new husband–the one with the pony tail.

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