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2008 Metal and Aggregate Mine Wages

Posted in About the news, Copper, Gold, Jobs and Salaries, North America, drilling, tagged , , , , , , , on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

    From CostMine is the U.S. Metal & Industrial Mineral Mine Salaries, Wages & Benefits 2008 Survey.  Here are some averages for metal and industrial mineral mines in the United States. (the first number is the hourly base wage for small surface mines; the second number is that hourly base wage for large mines.)  

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Stupid, incompetent, and wicked to the last drop: is Marathon Mining really guilty?

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Uranium, drilling on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It is most un-American to characterize people by group labels.  Everybody is supposed to be as equal.  The Constitution only says that we all have equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  That is not the same as being equal.  We really must face the fact that many people are stupid, incompetent, or downright wicked.  A [...]

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There Will Be Blood: a metaphor for the modern Vancouver junior miner

Posted in Community relations, Human relations and mining, drilling, oil on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My companion at the end of the movie There Will be Blood remarked “Now what do you make of that?”  I too was a trifle baffled at the story and the message.  A rather contradictory character starts out in New Mexico mining silver or is it gold, but finds oil.  Great shots of hard-core mining practices [...]

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Western Canada mine exploration health and safety deconstructed

Posted in North America, drilling, health, health and safety, safety on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

A sobering set of conclusions from a volume called Safety Guidelines for Mineral Exploration in Western Canada published by AMEBC. Twenty-three years of data compiled by the Health & Safety Committee focuses attention on the most common causes of exploration accidents. The following observations reflect this experience and are provided for the benefit of present and [...]

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