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Archive for the ‘Gold’ Category
Mining History & Grandkids
Posted in Africa, British Columbia, Gold, Mining history, tagged East Geduld, free state, grandkids, kids, mining, South Africa, welcome on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
EPA Report on Bristol Bay and Pebble Mine
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, consulting, environmental, feasibilty studies, First Nations, Gold, Investing & Finance, mining, North America, tagged Alaska, Anglo American, bristol bay, EPA, fish, Pebble Mine on May 19, 2012 | 12 Comments »
The draft report by the EPA on potential mining impacts on Bristol Bay by the Pebble Mine or any of the other seven potential mines in that part of Alaska is published. Here is a link to one report thereon—there are hundreds of news items, so maybe look for others as well if the topic [...]
Yet Another Gold Mining Scam: Abandoned Mines, Abandoned Money & Hope
Posted in About the news, California, Gold, Investing & Finance, tagged California, Gold, mining, scam on May 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Always on the lookout for mining scams, I came across the news report repeated below. This Californian scammed an elderly couple of $5 million promising to extract gold from abandoned mines. I can never quite understand how somebody who is smart enough to accrue so much money, can be so stupid as to part with it [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Chile Placer Gold Mining
Posted in Gold, Mining history, People, tagged Alaska, Chile, Gold, placer miining on April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Before coming to Santiago, I had thought of Chile as a place of copper mines. Today I learnt that gold was and is a major mined product of Chile. Today I lunched with two young geologists exploring the hillsides above an old placer deposit which, they tell me, financed the founding of Santiago and ultimately [...]
The Past & Future of Tailings Disposal
Posted in consulting, Gold, Mining history, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged george donaldson, golder assoiates, Mike Gowan, slime dam, Tailings on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mike Gowan of Golder Associates in Australia has enabled me to post at this link a PowerPoint presentation of a talk he gave earlier this month in South Africa. At the link is the PowerPoint in pdf format. It is a big file and may take time to download, but persist, for the wait is worth the reward once you [...]
Pebble Mine Investing at Your Peril
Posted in About the news, Gold, Investing & Finance, Mining history, tagged invest, Pebble Mine on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pebble Mine and hence Anglo American may not be a prudent investment at present. I have been wrong before in predicting the rise and fall of mine share prices, so please do not take the following as investment advice. See this for what it is: the ruminations of cantankerous old blogger.
Cooking for Miners. Eating at Mines
Posted in Gold, Oil sands, health, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, brandy, consulting, tagged East Geduld, Ekati, Fort McMurray, Greens Creek, Guatemala, Oil sands, Professor Jennings, Suncor, marlin mine, cooking, free state, escobal, guatemala. suncor.il sands.east geduld. ekati, food, hawk inlet, bull cook, bhp billiton, tro on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]