Most mines have a place where the miners eat. Let us celebrate the cooks at these places by telling of the many fine meals we have enjoyed in these mining canteens. In celebrating cooks at mining canteens, I also seek to describe a job in mining that most do not write about. If you like [...]
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Cooking for Miners. Eating at Mines
Posted in brandy, consulting, Gold, health, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, Oil sands, tagged bhp billiton, bull cook, cooking, East Geduld, Ekati, escobal, food, Fort McMurray, free state, Greens Creek, Guatemala, guatemala. suncor.il sands.east geduld. ekati, hawk inlet, marlin mine, Oil sands, Professor Jennings, Suncor, tro on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Die Liebe Der Danae: Opera Gold, Love, and Lust
Posted in brandy, opera, tagged Gold, liebe der danae, love, lust, opera, richard strauss, sex on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Music, in particular opera, has brought me far more pleasure than gold. I have a few ugly gold cufflinks—can you find shirt to wear them with these days? I have many gold rings; one sporting a one-carrot, yellow, Australian diamond. They are beautiful, and still fit my fingers after many years. But they are empty [...]
Sunday Sermon: Norma, Opera, and Mining Imperialism
Posted in brandy, Mining history, opera, tagged asterix, Bellini, felice romani, gaul, nrm, obelix, opera on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Alternative titles for this posting include: Free Gaul; All Romans Out Abandon the Alter and Flee the Native Land Canadian Mining Imperialism
MET Opera, Philip Glass, Satyagraha, and Old Mining Memories
Posted in Africa, Mining history, opera, mining, brandy, tagged mining, opera, MET, philip glass, satyagraha on November 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today’s MET Opera Satyagraha by Philip Glass, sung in Sanskrit, set in old South Africa, is a mesmerizing theatrical experience. What there is of a “story” is Gandhi arriving in Natal, then a British colony, finding racialism, leading Indian protests, and twenty years later leaving Natal, by then part of the new (1910) country of [...]
Weekend Music: Vancouver Fado
Posted in brandy, opera, People, tagged curry, elektra, fado. antonia zambujo, opera on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What is a long weekend without music and bike riding? Yesterday we went to the Capilano University Theater to see Antonio Zambujo from Portugal sing Fado. If you do not know Fado, then I hope to persuade you to take notice of this incredible music genre.
Mining philosophy, science, and engineering in the service of economic and social demands
Posted in brandy, consulting, Human relations and mining, mining, North America, Oil sands, Tailings, tagged engineering, mining, Nevada, Oil sands, philosophy, science, tax on February 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last night we sat drinking and talking after two days of workshops on aspects of oil sands mining. During the day we dealt with the nitty-gritty of detail: injection rates; loading factors; drying times; strength; short-and long-range plans; and curves relating every conceivable parameter to every other conceivable parameter. Thus as the night wore on, [...]
Geosynthetics in Covers Over Soft Mine Tailings: Mine Closure or Access to Groundwater
Posted in brandy, Oil sands, Reclamation, Software, Tailings, tagged access roads, analysis, covers, desing, Directive 74, ERCB, FLAC, geosynthetics, PLEXIS, soft tailings on January 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Geosynthetics have been used in constructing covers and access roads over soft tailings at the Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, at impoundments at Wismut, and most recently at Pond 5 at the Suncor oil sands tailings mine in Alberta. We are currently evaluating similar technical procedures for a mine in Chile where we will build access roads over the [...]
Weekend Opera: Henry VIII to The Tempest
Posted in brandy, opera, tagged Anglican, Church of England, cossi fan tutti, Council of Nicaea, Henry VIII, saint saens, tempest, Trinity on November 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The third act of Saint-Saens’ opera, Henry VIII, should be required listening for all scholars of religion. In this act, Henry renounces Catherine, his wife of twenty-four years, announces his marriage to Ann Boleyn, and declares himself head of the Church of England.
Diamond Mining and Le Comte Ory
Posted in brandy, consulting, opera, tagged canadian north, comte ory, Diamond, first air, met opera, opera, rolling stone, Verdi, wagner on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
George Bernard Shaw called Rossini ”the supreme master of clap-trap.” Rossini wrote of Wagner: “He has great moments, and dull quarter hours.” No live opera or Met opera this weekend. We took solace in the DVD. First a life of Rossini and then, in anticipation of the Met broadcast, a cheap DVD of Le Comte Ory. [...]
Zimbabwe Mining Investment and Other Weekend Highs
Posted in brandy, California, Investing & Finance, mining, tagged dagga, investment, marijuana, Zimbabwe on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes you just have to shake your head in disbelief. You must wonder how can these people say what they say with a straight face. Let us start with the amazing news that the California alcohol industry is opposing legalization of marijuana, or dagga as we used to call it in South Africa. Part of the [...]
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