Posted in consulting, Copper, feasibilty studies, Jobs and Salaries, People, Peru, tagged career, civil engineer, company, Copper, luquman shaheen, panoro minerals, Peru, UBC on June 13, 2013 | 2 Comments »
“Call me Luke.” Thus introduced, we sat down to talk about his career, his company, and mining copper. Luke is a civil engineering graduate of the University of British Columbia. He spent the first five years working for consultants in the United States and British Columbia on tailings facilities. “That way I learnt part of what makes a mine work,” he assured me, as the names of the mines slip easily from him: Kennecott, Dome, Campbell. (more…)
Posted in About the news, Copper, Investing & Finance, Open Pit, tagged bingham canyon, investment rule, kennecottt copper, mine, mormons, Utah on April 12, 2013 | 3 Comments »
A massive slope failure has occurred at the open pit of the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah. Here is a link to a magnificent collection of photographs of the failure, which appears to have taken out part of a building, access roads, and filled the bottom of the pit with slide material. Nobody was hurt: the mine had been monitoring movement and when deformation increased from 1 mm a day to 5 mms day they pulled out all workers. A fine testament to the engineers who study rock and soil slope stability in the open pit mine context. (more…)
Posted in About the news, consulting, Copper, feasibilty studies, Gold, Investing & Finance, People, Peru, tagged antilla, cotabambas, luquman shaheen, panoro minerals, Peru on February 14, 2013 | 2 Comments »
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Yesterday I finished a three-day EduMine webcast on Mining Investment – Understand the Risks. Today I took my own advice to heart and attended a presentation by Luquman Shaheen of Panoro Minerals Ltd on their projects in Peru. Should I invest? Should I advise you to invest? Should we join Hudbay Minerals who own some seven percent of the company in the excitement of new prospects in a mining-potential-rich part of Peru? (more…)
Posted in Copper, Diamond, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, mining, North America, Oil sands, Uncategorized, tagged chemical engineer, chemist, Chile, lucrestius, salary, stephen greenblatt, the swerve on September 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just back from Chile. Long, grueling flights, and airport lounges. The benefits, few as they are, included the chance to read Stephen Greeenblatt’s The Swerve. It is the story of the recovery of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, a long poem in Latin from the BC era. I have ordered both the original Latin version and two translations. For this is of the things I believe. I leave you to read more if you are curious. (more…)
Posted in About the news, Coal, Copper, Investing & Finance, People, Uranium, tagged anthony, cleopatra, Coal, Obama, octavian, republic, romney on August 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The kids and grandkids have left to return to California; the bikes are packed away; the towels for swimming washed; the plastic cups and dishes back on basement shelves; and a near-adult feel returns to the house. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, Copper, First Nations, Human relations and mining, Mining history, People, tagged britannia mine museum, chain mail, daniel miller on August 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
In the blog posting below, I write of great art at the Britannia Mine Museum. Here I write of the craft of mining materials, namely the making of chain mail. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, Copper, mining, Mining history, People, tagged art, britannia mine museum, margi mcdonald, scott kerr on August 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today we met the artist, Margie McDonald, who has a new exhibit of art made of mined materials on view at the Britannia Mine Museum north of Vancouver. If you get a chance, take a drive up along the Sea to Sky Highway through the forests, along the coast with incredible views of the inlet, and in the bask of hot sun shimmering off the rock cliffs and snow still on distant mountains. Then plan to spend time at the museum and in the old building housing her art. (more…)
Posted in blogs, Copper, People, tagged andrew abernathy, placemaking, Rosemont Copper, strings connections links 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…)
Posted in consulting, Copper, Gold, Jobs and Salaries, Tailings, tagged ca global, mining, process engineer, recruiting 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…)
Posted in Copper, Gold, Jobs and Salaries, North America, tagged 2011, electrician, equipment operator, laborer, U.S. mine, wage on May 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
There are conventionally 2,080 work hours in a year. Thus somebody earning a wage of $20 an hour gets the equivalent of a salary of about $42,000. Considering the mine manager makes about $100,000 to $150,000 a year, it is interesting to take a look at actual wages paid to miners in the United States in 2011. The following numbers come from the CostMine report 2011 Survey Results, U.S. Metal and Industrial Mineral Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits. (more…)
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