Over the years on this blog and elsewhere I have written about mining investment. In particular, I wrote a course for EduMine called Mining Investment – Understanding the Risks. The course has proven to be popular, and now the folk at EduMine have persuaded me to give the course as a live webcast. The webcast is planned [...]
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Mining Investment EduMine Webcast
Posted in Investing & Finance, tagged edumine, invest, mining, risk on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cooking for Miners. Eating at Mines
Posted in brandy, consulting, Gold, health, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, Oil sands, tagged bhp billiton, bull cook, cooking, East Geduld, Ekati, escobal, food, Fort McMurray, free state, Greens Creek, Guatemala, guatemala. suncor.il sands.east geduld. ekati, hawk inlet, marlin mine, Oil sands, Professor Jennings, Suncor, tro on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Most mines have a place where the miners eat. Let us celebrate the cooks at these places by telling of the many fine meals we have enjoyed in these mining canteens. In celebrating cooks at mining canteens, I also seek to describe a job in mining that most do not write about. If you like [...]
Mining Jobs, Careers,and Commensurate Wage, Salaries, and Compensation
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged careers, compansation, job, mining, salaries, wages on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On this blog, I often write about jobs and careers in mining. I often write about the wages, salaries, and compensation for those who work in mining. To make it easier for you to access the past postings of this blog on the topics of mining jobs & careers, and on mining wages, salaries and [...]
Mining Impact Benefit Agreements
Posted in First Nations, Jobs and Salaries, North America, mining, British Columbia, tagged aboriginal, Ekati, First Nations, mining, PDAC, impact benefit agreement on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Monday and to serious mining topics. Today’s topic is mining impact benefit agreements. I received an email from somebody asking me what I knew of the topic. Very little in truth. I sought help and this is the reply I received:
2011 U.S. Aggregate & Construction Materials Mine Wages
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged aggregate, constructin material, quarry, wages on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A wage is an hourly rate. A salary is an annual amount. Here is information about wages, in dollars per hour, for folk who work at what we think of as quarries & gravel pits.
New Mining Investment Resource: Featured Mining Investment Opportunities
Posted in Investing & Finance, tagged infmine, investment, malbex resources, Mineweb, mining, opportunities on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The quantity of information that is needed to make rationale mining investment decisions is immense. It is near impossible to read all the daily emails or go to all the conferences and meetings on mining that have as their ultimate gold-goal the provision of advice to help you make profitable mining investment decisions. Now there [...]
Oil Sands Mining Jobs for British Columbia Academics and Graduates
Posted in British Columbia, Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, Peru, tagged Fort McMurry, jobs, John Wayne, research, Vacncouver on January 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A group of professors sat around a table in a glass-clad building and wondered why they are not involved in oil sands mining. They talked of getting funding for a new professorial chair—why does the oil sands industry not sponsor a chair at our university? They bemoaned the fact that none of their students wants [...]
Deloitte predicted the Peru Newmont Cajamarca Debacle
Posted in About the news, communication, Community relations, First Nations, Investing & Finance, Peru, tagged cajamarca, Deloitte, Newmont, Peru on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Deloitte a new report Tracking the trends 2012, The top 10 trends mining companies may face in the coming year. The report starts with this quote:
Does Every State Need Its Own Grand Canyon and Its Own Uranium Mine?
Posted in blogs, Colorado, Enviromental, environmental, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, Uranium, tagged Grand Canyon, Pebble Mine, Saskatchewan, uranium mining on January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The news is that the area around the Grand Canyon is off-limits to uranium mining for the next 20 years. The Obama administration has banned new mining near the Grand Canyon, an area known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves, the Associated Press reported.