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 [...]
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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 »
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 British Columbia, First Nations, Jobs and Salaries, mining, North America, tagged aboriginal, Ekati, First Nations, impact benefit agreement, mining, PDAC 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.
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 [...]
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.
More Jobs in Mining: Public Communications and Relations
Posted in California, Jobs and Salaries, People, tagged communications, public relations, stakeholder, sustainable development on January 7, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Here are some random thoughts about one type of work in mining that is seldom discussed. I write here of the communications manager. Other titles applied to this line of work in mining include: community relations specialist, public relations director, sustainable development officer, stakeholder interactions manager. The list is endless; it all boils down to [...]
The National Mining Association on Mining Jobs
Posted in About the news, blogs, environmental, Global Warming, Jobs and Salaries, tagged bill wilson, jobs, national Mining Association, nma, obamaccare, taxes on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Once more on the topic of unemployment and the role of mining in giving people jobs. Today I received the following from the U.S. National Mining Association, and it is an honor to be asked and to be able to comply. Jamie Caswell writes as follows:
2012 Mining Opportunities & Jobs (In Canada?)
Posted in About the news, California, Colorado, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, Mining history, Oil sands, Peru, tagged 2012, Canada, jobs, mining, opportunities on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In a previous posting on this blog, I made my mining predictions for 2012. One of them was that we would be regaled by a continuing plethora of articles saying mining will be detrimentally affected by a shortage of workers. Here is one comment on that posting (I edit for spelling and punctuation):
Jobs in Mining, Oil, & Gas: Skills & Salaries; A Personal Perspective
Posted in consulting, Jobs and Salaries, People, tagged gas, mining, miningoilgasJobs, oil, sarah mitchell, truck driver on December 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Normally I take the positive view of issues. A once-upon-time lady-friend dumped me because, as she said: “You are disgustingly optimistic and always look on the bright side of bad things.” I suppose I was happy to see the end of her, as she was always gloomy, even when things were going well. We concluded [...]
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