In a now-demolished farm house in Iowa I taught the older grandsons to make pasta carbonera. It is easy: while pasta (any type) boils in hot water, in a pan fry bacon and onion; throw the boiled pasta into the pan; break in a few eggs; mix the whole until the eggs are cooked; eat [...]
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The Dark Side of Mining: Pasta Carbonera
Posted in Mining history, Underground, tagged Iowa, laborer, mine, pasta on October 19, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Massey Energy denies report of responsibility for Upper Big Branch mine deaths
Posted in About the news, Coal, safety, Underground, tagged big branch mine, Coal, death, massey energy, politicians on May 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This report should be mandatory reading for all in the mining industry. If you are a Democrat you will believe it, and believe something should be done—particularly a change in the law and more enforcement of lax and dishonest mine operators. If you are a Republican, you will ignore it, attack it, and say [...]
Acid Mine Drainage threatens Kwa Thema, South Africa. Is this really worse than Global Warming?
Posted in acid mine drainage, Africa, environmental, Global Warming, Gold, Reclamation, Tailings, Underground, Uranium, tagged AMD, East Geduld, Kwa thema, pollution, slimes dam, Tailings, Witwatersrand on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Growing up on the East Geduld Mine, a gold mine at the far east end of the South African Witwatersrand, we often went to play around the slimes dams and the pools of orange, green, and blue waters that dotted the landscape. Our parent forbade us to go there, for there were stories [...]
2010 US Coal Mine Wages
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Open Pit, Underground, tagged 2010, coal mine, US, wages on February 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
CostMine has just sent me a copy of their new 2010 Survey Results U.S. Coal Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits. Here are some of the numbers for coal mine wages. In future postings, we will look at salaries and executive compensation.
Mine-Mill Integration Jobs
Posted in consulting, Underground, tagged andrew bamber, edumine, integration, job, metso, mill, mine on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The big idea is that you put your mill deep underground. Less noise, less dust, no surface run-off to manage. You send only the concentrate or refined product to the surface, thereby saving on haulage costs. Maybe you can use the waste rock to backfill the stopes. I am not sure what you would do [...]
Gold Mining: Das Rheingold and the Price of Gold
Posted in Gold, opera, Underground, tagged das rheingold, fricka, gold price, loge, MET, mining, opera, Palin, wagner, wotan on October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The price of gold rises daily. Some news feeds have degenerated into infinite streams of platitudes about why the price of gold will climb every higher. Or burst as the next bubble to be charged to the taxpayer. Seems to me that while a few may benefit from the infinite rise in the price of [...]
2010 Mining Salaries from E&MJ
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, Open Pit, Underground, tagged E&MJ, journal, salaries on September 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Engineering and Mining Journal (E&MJ) is published by Mining-Media. It arrives by no action on my part on my desk. There it joins the pile of magazines on mining that fall like leaves in autumn. Being a magazine junkie, I flip through them all. I avoid the articles on new trucks–those articles are surely planted [...]
US Coal Mine Wages 2009/2010
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, North America, safety, Underground, tagged Coal, safety, Virginia, wage on April 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
While politicians ponder how to reform the US coal mine safety situation, let us look at the wages paid to US coal miners. We have previously dealt with coal mine salaries and coal mine executive compensation. Now is time to look at the wages of those who do the work and the dying—and again [...]
West Virginia Mining Deaths: A Black Mark for Mining
Posted in About the news, blogs, Coal, North America, safety, Underground, tagged deaths, massey enegy, upper big branch mine, West Virginia on April 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We grieve for the miners killed in the recent West Virginia coal mining accident. And we extend our sympathy to their families. Now let us get angry at the people and the systems that killed them. As a blogger, it is our right and our duty to say what other may but think.
Mining industry research versus consultants for solutions
Posted in Africa, consulting, Mining history, safety, Underground, tagged CSIR, mining, research on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I was just a small kid, our school class was taken on a field trip to the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Being the snotty cynic I was then (and probably still am) I was unimpressed. I could not fathom the potential benefit of looking at alternative wheat strains, [...]
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