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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 [...]

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Being a Sunday I took long walks through the city.  Here are some pictures of things that caught my attention.  A typical street scene with public clock and advert.   The copper man–indeed a live human all dolled up in copper.  The spires of the cathederal in the main square.  This is the statue of [...]

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Mining has brought me to Santiago, Chile and will take me north to the great copper mining district.  This past week, I have met with civil and mining engineers working on a new mine.  Their challenges are water and energy to make the mine profitable.  Both water and energy are in short supply up north and [...]

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Browsing on Friday through the blogs on mining, I came across this report: With gold prices climbing to ever-greater heights and many analysts expecting the momentum to gain still further, investing in gold mines would seem like a logical step forward. For countries rich in precious metals such as Haiti, the opportunity to cash in gold [...]

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The fellow who heads BioteQ lives in an apartment high up in one of those tall buildings ringing False Creek in Vancouver.  He rides his bicycle to the office in the mining district of downtown and he rides his bicycle to the campus of the University of British Columbia where he undertakes the basic research that [...]

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Here is how you tease the mining industry and confound reporters:  issue a news release that you have published your new NI 43-101.  Then let them search for an actual copy.  I have had an army of so-called specialists looking for a copy of Northern Dynasty’s Pebble Mine Ni 43-101.  It does not yet exist, [...]

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The Huffington Post was sold this week for millions.  For years I have dipped into it occasionally for a balance on the news.  I even fought the folk here at InfoMine telling them the format is attractive and easy to use.  At last this advice is getting implemented–but only partially.

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A week of wonders.  Here are some:

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We will have to await the course of fighting lawyers to learn how this story plays out; but even now there is plenty to tell and plenty to cogitate.  It all relates to helping the democratically elected government of the DCR kill seventy of its own.  In short the story, as I pick it up from a number [...]

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Here is a heart-felt plea from Azael Barrera, PhD.  He sent this to me in an e-mail that arrived this morning.  Here is the full text of this morning’s e-mail.  I have edited a little to make it more readable.

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