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Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Advice to a young mining student on sucess in the mining industry
Posted in blogs, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, Software, Tailings, tagged advice, consulting, job, mining, student on August 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Lost in the Woods: Eagle Mine Superfund Site
Posted in Mining history, Oil sands, Software, Tailings, tagged cover, eagle mine, FLAC, pond 5, soft tailings, Suncor, superfund, Tailings on June 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday we walked in the forest behind the town house. The sun shone through the trees and the boys ran with glee along the bright paths. Their father stayed on the dock vainly fishing. The picture shows some of the fun.
The Basic Principles of Mine Tailings Management
Posted in Geotechnical, Software, Tailings, Uncategorized, tagged failure, FLAC, mine, Tailings on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The story of tailings management is the story of application of a few basic principles. All involve control of the forces of nature. Once we worked on the basis of observation and judgment. Today we have computer codes for almost all and the work is done in back rooms by the junior engineers who feed [...]
Geosynthetics in Covers Over Soft Mine Tailings: Mine Closure or Access to Groundwater
Posted in brandy, Oil sands, Reclamation, Software, Tailings, tagged access roads, analysis, covers, desing, Directive 74, ERCB, FLAC, geosynthetics, PLEXIS, soft tailings on January 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Geosynthetics have been used in constructing covers and access roads over soft tailings at the Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, at impoundments at Wismut, and most recently at Pond 5 at the Suncor oil sands tailings mine in Alberta. We are currently evaluating similar technical procedures for a mine in Chile where we will build access roads over the [...]
Mining Education:Schools & Salaries
Posted in Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, Software, tagged education. salary, mining professor, salary, university on September 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
One of the young engineers here in the office has just started his master degree at a local university. He will continue to work for the consulting company half-time—you have to pay the bills somehow.
Geotechnical software for mining: Novotech at thirty
Posted in People, Software, tagged Geotechnical, novotech, Software on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Still on the theme of thirty-year olds in the work place. (See my blog posting below this one for an extended rumination on the topic of thirty-year olds in mining.) This afternoon two thirty-year olds came marketing. I must admire what they are doing. They are setting up and marketing a software company that specializes in geotechnical [...]
SME uranium mine tailings reclamation
Posted in About the news, decomissioning, Software, tagged BRS, Carlson Natural Regrade, Hutson, mine, Reclamation, Riverton, SME, Tailings, Uranium, Wyoming on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another paper from the SME CD Preprints that I enjoyed and recommend is Application of Best Available Technology to Reclamation Design and Integration with Mine Planning by H.J. Hutson of BRS Inc. in Riverton, Wyoming.
Suncor prepares for the worst and so should you
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, Oil sands, Software, tagged complex system, gensym, mining, model, Suncor, valuation on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
At midweek let us pause to decide if you should buy, hold, or sell your mining stock. This enquiry is brought on by news that Suncor is “preparing for $40 crude…getting ready for the worst.” The issues is should you prepare for the worst and how should you prepare?
WoW to the runes and landscape of sexy mining
Posted in Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Software, tagged Darwin, investment, mining, Runescape, sex, Teck Cominco, WOW on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those stuck inside these weekend by snow, yet yearning for the sexy part of mining, I recommend playing one of those on-line games. You can be a miner of skill and fortune in these games. Here are links to two recent postings about the mining aspect of these games. Just reading these two postings will rapidly [...]
Geotechnical engineers on mines and in mining
Posted in Mining history, People, Software, tagged gemcom, geotechnical engineer, InfoMine, mining, Robertson Geoconsultants, srk on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The website that sponsors this blog also allows me to post more serious writings on the science, technology, and engineering of mining. We have just posted an article on the role of geotechnical engineers on mines and in mining. My co-author is Andy Robertson. It is he who founded Steffan Robertson and Kirsten, Gemcom, and [...]
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