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 [...]
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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 »
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, [...]
SME civil versus mining tunnelling
Posted in About the news, Underground, tagged drift, mining, NIOSH, Rio Tinto, SME, tunnel on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rapid construction is the key to success in mining. Alan Moss of Rio Tinto heads up the research part of Rio TInto in Vancouver. In a fine speech this morning at the SME conference he told us how a program he is managing is succeeding in find new ways to drive drifts faster [...]
Coal Mine Wages: 2008 CostMine Summary
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Open Pit, Underground, tagged 2008, coal mine, compensation, salary, wages on February 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just received is the 2008 Survey Results U.S. Coal Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits from CostMine. There is an enormous amount of data in this new survey. Here is my personal summary and perspective of some of the information on wages…..in future postings I will write about salaries and executive compensation.
Mining-wise there will always be an England
Posted in About the news, Church, Global Warming, Investing & Finance, People, Underground, tagged Dakota Salts, Darwin, Huxley, mining, salt, Thomas Thwaites, toaster, Walter Doyle on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two mining-related stories today that prove there will always be an England. That slightly batty, eccentric land of non-conformists. Making a toaster from scratch, mining the raw materials;
Judge orders more mine rescue practice until you can dance by muscle-memory alone
Posted in About the news, Coal, health and safety, Mining history, Underground, tagged coal mine, CPR, dance, death, judge, MSHA, rescue, Stephen Williams, West Coast Swing on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once a year? Or twice a year? Sounds like the famous question “to be or not to be.” In some ways there is a parallel between the questions. For both, depending on the answer, mean the difference between life and death. Death in a duel. Or death in a cold, coal mine. Because you have [...]
Can Rio Tinto and BHP control American royalty for the benefit of Arizona mining?
Posted in Copper, Underground, tagged Arizona, BHP, block caving, John McCain, mining, Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto on June 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
John McCain is from Arizona. He has acted in the past to the benefit of mining. In July 2007 this news report appeared: U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain have introduced legislation for the third year in a row that would allow a new copper mine to be developed over a huge mineral deposit [...]
CIM ends with Paul Hughes intellect and frozen backfill in mining
Posted in About the news, Underground, tagged backfill, CANMET, D Cluff, frozen backfill, mining, Paul Hughes, research, UBC, Will Bawden on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Edmonton CIM conference came to a crescendo ending today with a session on backfill and a session on the impediments to progress in mining. The night before I was invited by a work colleague to the McDonald Hotel and its Harvest restaurant. This is one of those grand hotels built across Canada to provide rail-travellers luxury [...]
Do not entrust your life to mining professors: rely on your own judgement
Posted in health and safety, Underground, tagged Kim McCarter, Professor Jennings, Salt Lake City, Tony Brink, Tower Mine, UtahAmerica, William Pariseau on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an example of confused reporting that pricks one’s interest and sets the canary alarm bells ringing: The shutdown [of the Tower Mine, Utah] came a day after University of Utah researchers presented findings about the dangers of deep coal mining at a conference at the federal Bureau of Land Management in Salt [...]
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