Across the USA and Canada in make-shift camps, protestors are demanding something. We are not sure what. But they are upset about the rich getting high wages. I have read articles in which reporters go on about the anger of the protestors about the one percent who take home all the money. In a recent issue of McLeans, the Canadian version of the US Time magazine, I read that in Canada you are in the top one percent if you earn over $170,000 per year and in the US you are in the top one percent if you earn over $400,000 per year. (more…)
Archive for October, 2011
Mining Salaries: How to Earn in the Top Brackets
Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries, tagged mining, occupy wall street, salary, wages on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mining Jobs: Lawyers in Mining
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, Law (Mining), tagged don giovanni, james patterson, law, lawyers, michael connelly, mining jobs, rock mountain institute on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Having watched the Met Opera Don Giovanni yesterday, I decided today that I had had enough culture. So, on a rainy day I sat in my study reading a detective novel. Trash for pure entertainment! (more…)
Valley Heap Leach Pads in Cold Climates
Posted in Gold, Heap leach, Uranium, tagged cold climate, edumine, heap leach pad on October 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
To end the work-week, here is the knottiest problem I faced this week. Maybe the readers of this blog can help solve the problem! The issue: how to design a heap leach pad in a cold climate? (more…)
Goldcorp, Vancouver Opera, and West Side Story
Posted in British Columbia, mining, opera, tagged Bellini, bez bezuidenhout, don giovanni, Goldcorp, Guatemala, juliette, romeo, Vancouver opera, west side story on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a blog about what I THINK MINING, thus I focus on the mining aspects of life. So once again I pay tribute to Goldcorp for sponsoring the Vancouver Opera production of West Side Story. (more…)
Another Bottle of Water For Failure at China’s Sichuan Mines
Posted in About the news, Asia, Enviromental, environmental, health and safety, tagged bottled water, China, lafarge, longmen moountain, mianyang, sichuan on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

From the ChinaDaily.com.cn a report that “Residents of Mianyang, a city in Sichuan province, have begun buying bottled water in a panic after authorities announced that the chief local water source had been contaminated by residue washed away by floodwaters from a local manganese plant.” (more…)
Gold not mined in Toronto: CASH FOR GOLD
Posted in About the news, Gold, Investing & Finance, Mining history, tagged cash for gold, Gold, Mormon, steven pinker, toronto on October 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Mining the Take Back Wall Steet Protest in Vancouver
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, opera, tagged don pasquale, drugs, mining, opera, police, tea party, Vancouver, vancouver prostitute, walll street, west vancouver on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Those demonstrators who are destroying the grass to the north of the Vanouver Art Galley probably never have seen an opera. The probably regard opera as a pastime of the rich. Maybe they should watch Don Pasquale and learn that there have always been the rich, the poor, the lazy, the parasites, and the ambitious. (more…)
Slusher Mining by Norada
Posted in Mining history, tagged E*xponent, GECO mine, mining, noranda, slusher on October 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In 2006, before I started this blog, I wrote the piece repeated below. I post it here today because Judd S. Day, a Managing Scientist with E*ponent Failure Analysis Associates picked up on the article and informed me that the Noranda GECO mine in Ontario has used slushers for most of its existence. He remarks that they are an impressive piece of equipment. Thaks for this information Judd. So here to the original article—and continue on to the Urban Dictionary as linked near the end. Fun with words. And if you can help explain the migration of slusher as applied in mining to its current urban ues, let us know. (more…)
The Next Thirty Years of Mining Consulting: Mining Plus
Posted in British Columbia, consulting, tagged consulting, mining, miniong plus, sushi, Vancouver on October 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I lunched with three young engineers. Two have master’s degrees and the third is well on his way. Food was ususal Vancouver fare for hungry men: bento box filled with rice, sushi, tempura, and meat in deep, dark sauce. (more…)
EduMine and AIG on professional development
Posted in About the news, Australia and New Zealand, consulting, tagged aig, edumine, leearning on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This post is replete with contradiction, cynicism, and self-promotion. Yet I am making a genuine attempt to make a serious point, even though I degenerate into foresaid faults. (more…)


