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 »
Oil Sands and Other Tailings Trafficability
Posted in Oil sands, People, Tailings, tagged dirk van zyl, donald McCleary, ed nowatski, karafiath, nowatski, Oil sands, Tailings, trafficability, Tucson, van zyl on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Rummaging through old papers this weekend, I came across a short hand-written piece that I penned in 1982. I repeat it here with no edits. This piece is interesting in light of the muddle made by the Alberta ERCB in demanding an oil sand tailings strength of 10 kPa so that the deposit can be [...]
New Zealand Mining Debate: Lamb vs Lignite?
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, mining, tagged lamb, mining, mutton, new Zealand, straterra on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Growing up in South Africa, we ate a great deal of mutton. It was cheap & available. I knew nothing of steak and salmon until I got to Vancouver, where salmon is cheap & available. Yet I still long for the gamey taste of mutton. I found it once in Mexican Hat in the Navajo [...]
Oil Sands Mining Jobs for British Columbia Academics and Graduates
Posted in British Columbia, Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, Peru, tagged Fort McMurry, jobs, John Wayne, research, Vacncouver on January 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A group of professors sat around a table in a glass-clad building and wondered why they are not involved in oil sands mining. They talked of getting funding for a new professorial chair—why does the oil sands industry not sponsor a chair at our university? They bemoaned the fact that none of their students wants [...]
Obama, Keystone, and USA & Canadian Mining Jobs
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, oil, Oil sands, People, tagged gore, mckibben, Oil sands, pipeline on January 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The news wires are abuzz with the announcement that Obama has caved into his party’s environmental wing and killed the Keystone pipeline that would have carried Canadian oil to the refineries along the gulf coast. Obama spluttered some words about reducing car fuel consumption as a way of making up for the jobs the pipeline would have generated. [...]
Gleision Colliery Mining Fatalities Re-examined
Posted in About the news, Coal, health and safety, tagged colliery, gleision, queen elizabeth on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What with Welsh miners in the news and possibly becoming a feature of the presidential election, let us turn to a story of the death of four miners last year in a Welsh coal mine. Here is what Queen Elizabeth said in her Christmas message about the deaths:
Mining Obama vs Romney vs Gingrich vs Ron Paul as Supporters of Mining
Posted in British Columbia, Coal, environmental, Europe, Mining history, North America, People, tagged ann romney, coegnant colliery, david davies, Disney, gingrich, Grand Canyon, mining, Obama, romney, ron paul, vancouver junior, wales on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
With Mitt Romney well on his way to being the next president, I thought it time to examine their attitudes to mining. OK, I know there are a few more pesky elections and attacks on Romney’s for his capitalistic sins (firing excess workers at unprofitable companies) to get through, but still the news snippets are fun. [...]
Does Every State Need Its Own Grand Canyon and Its Own Uranium Mine?
Posted in blogs, Colorado, Enviromental, environmental, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, Uranium, tagged Grand Canyon, Pebble Mine, Saskatchewan, uranium mining on January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The news is that the area around the Grand Canyon is off-limits to uranium mining for the next 20 years. The Obama administration has banned new mining near the Grand Canyon, an area known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves, the Associated Press reported.
2012 Mining Opportunities & Jobs (In Canada?)
Posted in About the news, California, Colorado, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, Mining history, Oil sands, Peru, tagged 2012, Canada, jobs, mining, opportunities on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In a previous posting on this blog, I made my mining predictions for 2012. One of them was that we would be regaled by a continuing plethora of articles saying mining will be detrimentally affected by a shortage of workers. Here is one comment on that posting (I edit for spelling and punctuation):
Mining Reading in 2012: Murder, Mayhem, and Oil Sands
Posted in California, Mining history, Oil sands, tagged 9 Dragons, athabaska, death comes to pemberly, history, joyce hunt, mockingjay, Oil sands on January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The New Year begins but holiday time continues for a while at least. There is still time to settle down and read a good book. Here is my list of those that I plan to pull out and read.
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