The more “popular” this blog becomes, the greater the number of e-mails I receive that extol products and mines and that ask that I write about them on this blog. Maybe popular is not the correct description of this blog—maybe I should be precise and say, the greater number of readers, or just simply hits via [...]
Archive for the ‘drilling’ Category
Mine Blasting Memories, Chesa-Sticks, and Sensitive European Caps NXbursT
Posted in drilling, Europe, Mining history, tagged blasting, chesa stick, NXbursT on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stupid, incompetent, and wicked to the last drop: is Marathon Mining really guilty?
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, drilling, Uranium 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 [...]
There Will Be Blood: a metaphor for the modern Vancouver junior miner
Posted in Community relations, drilling, Human relations and mining, 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 [...]
Western Canada mine exploration health and safety deconstructed
Posted in drilling, health, health and safety, North America, 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 [...]