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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Copper’ Category
2011 Wages for U.S. Metal and Industrial Mineral Mines
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 »
A walk through Santiago
Posted in Copper, Latin America, Mining history, tagged Chile, Copper, santiago on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Santiago, Chile Mining
Posted in consulting, Copper, Latin America, tagged Chile, energy, mining, santiago, water on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Mining in Haiti
Posted in About the news, Copper, Gold, Jobs and Salaries, mining, tagged charity, haiti, Libertarian, poverty on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Buy BioteQ Because of Bicycles — Mining Innovation at its Best
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Copper, Gold, Investing & Finance, tagged bioteq, buy, innovation, invest, NWM on March 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Pebble Mine NI 43-101 Report Promises Watery Future
Posted in Copper, feasibilty studies, Gold, Investing & Finance, tagged NI 43-101, pebble, perpetual, report, water treatment on February 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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, [...]
Mining.com Updates a New Gold Price Image
Posted in blogs, communication, Copper, Gold, Investing & Finance, mining, Uncategorized, tagged Copper, egypt, Gold, Huffington Post, mining.com, price, silver on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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.
Anvil Mining, the Un-DRC, and NGOs Class Action Law Suites
Posted in About the news, Africa, Community relations, Copper, due dilligence, health and safety, Human relations and mining, Law (Mining), People, tagged anvil mining, Bill C-300, CAAI, DRC, impunity, John Sabine, Kilwa, NGO on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
-
Top Posts
- Mining engineers' starting salaries in top ten
- Should I Become a Mining Engineer?
- Seeking work, miners are scammed by con artists: how to avoid the worst
- Canadian Mining Geologist Salaries: Wild & Inflated Expectations
- Should I Become a Mining Engineer II ?
- Mining truck driver wants job: do you have the right opportunity for Australia?
- Weekend career and salary deliberations: 200K in Fort McMurray and oil sands mining?
- Canadian Mine Salaries 2011 Data
- CIDA Supports Canadian Mining: The Pros & Cons of a Rising Debate
- 2012 Mining Opportunities & Jobs (In Canada?)
MINING.com- Brazil Potash raises funds for Amazon Basin development June 1, 2012 Cecilia Jamasmie
- Debunking the goldbugs, one belief at the time, FT style June 1, 2012 Cecilia Jamasmie
- Chile’s mining future jeopardized by delay in Patagonia $7 billion dam project June 1, 2012 Cecilia Jamasmie
- Santa Fe fails to acquire Columbus Silver Corporation June 1, 2012 Marketwire - Mining and Metals
- Has gold hit bottom, and what will drive it to $10,000? June 1, 2012 Nick Barisheff
- Findland miner's stock jumps 33% after announcing six metres at 617 g/t of gold June 1, 2012 Michael Allan McCrae
- Norton Gold Fields receives A$212 million offer from Zijin Mining Group June 1, 2012 Michael Allan McCrae
- Northern Dynasty comments at public hearings on the EPA's draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment Report May 31, 2012 PRNewswire
- Mining Industry Scholarships for Students of the University of Queensland (UQ) May 31, 2012 Susanne Iberle
- Neo Material Tech shareholders agree to Molycorp takeover, but what they really wanted was the cash May 31, 2012 Frik Els
Categories
- About the news
- acid mine drainage
- Africa
- Asia
- Australia and New Zealand
- blogs
- brandy
- British Columbia
- California
- Church
- Coal
- Colorado
- Commodity
- communication
- Community relations
- consulting
- Copper
- Cyanide
- decomissioning
- Diamond
- drilling
- due dilligence
- Engineering – General
- Enviromental
- Environment
- environmental
- Europe
- feasibilty studies
- First Nations
- Geology
- Geotechnical
- Global Warming
- Gold
- health
- health and safety
- Heap leach
- Human relations and mining
- Hydrology and hydraulics
- Investing & Finance
- Jobs and Salaries
- Latin America
- Law (Mining)
- Metallurgy
- mining
- Mining history
- Money & Mining
- mountaintop mining
- North America
- oil
- Oil sands
- Open Pit
- opera
- People
- Peru
- Policy and procedure
- Reclamation
- safety
- Software
- Tailings
- Uncategorized
- Underground
- Uranium
- Waste Rock
-
Recent Comments
MF on CIDA Supports Canadian Mining:… Dina Gattina on MET Siegfried and Jay Hunter… Brenda Oden on 2012 Mining Predictions Brenda Oden on 2012 Mining Predictions fortune on Should I Become a Mining … Archives
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
