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Price to Earnings Ratio: Newcrest Versus BHP

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Investing & Finance, tagged , , , , , on July 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »

From Investopedia, this definition of a company’s price to earnings ratio. (more…)

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Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam

Posted in British Columbia, Mining history on July 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Today a four-hour ride around Coquitlam, along the Fraser River, and up the Pitt River.  But first we rode the grounds of the Riverview Hospital.  The place started in the early 1900s.  The big buildings were constructed starting in the 1920s.  Up until about the mid-1990s it house upward of 2,300 patients. At its peak 4,600. (more…)

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Mining Consultants’ Offices

Posted in British Columbia, California, Colorado, consulting, Mining history, People, tagged , , , , , on July 29, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Today I rode up the trail between the trees & ferns dappled by sun & blue sky.  After a long uphill climb with leg muscles screaming in pain, I came on the downhill section.  Changing gears, I sped up and sped faster and faster down.  Coming on a turn I have taken many times, something went wrong. (more…)

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Weekend Mining Roundup: 63 Highways to Health and Words

Posted in Oil sands, health, brandy, blogs, tagged , , , , , , on July 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The weekend looms, so here is a roundup of the items I have saved for bogging about and that I know I will never get to unless I summarize now: (more…)

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Thoughts on Mining Placemaking, Arizona Mining, and Rosemont Copper

Posted in blogs, Copper, People, tagged , , , on July 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I have just added another blog to my blogroll–see list to the right of the page for Strings, Connections, Links.  It is not a blog about mining per se.  But many of the postings are of interest to the miner concerned with project management, the environment, sustainability, the built environment and a host of other eclectic topics.  The site came to my attention when the blog author, Andrew Abernathy sent me a comment on some postings on this blog.  Here is what he wrote (I repeat with his permission and some editing to protect the innocent.)  (more…)

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Process Engineers (Consultants) in Mining in Demand

Posted in consulting, Copper, Gold, Jobs and Salaries, Tailings, tagged , , , on July 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I have worked for many fine and skilled process engineers.  They are usually the folk on the mine who are assigned responsibility for the tailings facility, which is the place to which the process wastes (tailings) go.  Currently two of my clients are women process engineers.  They are demanding, detail-oriented, and good at geotechnical engineering, although they disclaim any expertise in the subject.  (more…)

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A Portrait of a Libertarian

Posted in About the news, People, tagged , on July 26, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Fifteen years ago when I first resided in Huntington Beach, I was told that if you lived within a mile of the beach, you were a Libertarian.  I did not know then what a Libertarian was or what they thought & did.  Last night I sat chatting with a newly minted Libertarian and his three oldest sons  and I was exposed to a full-blown Libertarian. (more…)

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The Parched Midwest and Batman on West African Mining

Posted in Global Warming, Jobs and Salaries, North America, tagged , , , , , , , on July 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I am in Iowa near Iowa City.  The land is parched, the corn stunted, the grass brown, and the rivers low.  The talk is all of drought and despair.  The heat is intense and unpleasant.  I try to remind myself it is nice to be warm after a long, wet winter in Vancouver, but to no avail. (more…)

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Mining Consultants’ Libraries

Posted in consulting, Mining history, tagged , on July 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »

In the old days of consulting, there was a large room somewhere that was filled with cheap shelves all heavily burdened with magazines, books, three-ring binders, and files.  This was the library.  It was managed by a proud lady, the Librarian, who had a degree in library management.  You tripped into her preserve in trepidation, and sought her help in supplicating phrases.  (more…)

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Tucson As A Mining Town

Posted in consulting, mining, Mining history, People, tagged , , , , on July 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »

In 1979, me and my young family arrived in Tucson to do mining.  We were put in an apartment on the corner of Pantano and Tanque Verde in an apartment overlooking the mountains capped with snow. We spent two years in that apartment and had a third child, born at the Tucson Medical Center.  She is now thirty and more, and working as a civil engineer in Iowa. (more…)

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