Growing up in South Africa, we ate a great deal of mutton. It was cheap & available. I knew nothing of steak and salmon until I got to Vancouver, where salmon is cheap & available. Yet I still long for the gamey taste of mutton. I found it once in Mexican Hat in the Navajo [...]
Archive for the ‘Australia and New Zealand’ Category
New Zealand Mining Debate: Lamb vs Lignite?
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, mining, tagged lamb, mining, mutton, new Zealand, straterra on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
$200,000 Working as a Miner
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, tagged income, mining, salary, wage on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first posting this week as I have just gotten back from working on a mine—and earning far less than $200,000 per year. I note the income of $200,000 a year as my email inbox is filled with links to a report on young folk on Australian mines earning $200,000 a year. Here is the [...]
EduMine and AIG on professional development
Posted in About the news, Australia and New Zealand, consulting, tagged aig, edumine, leearning on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This post is replete with contradiction, cynicism, and self-promotion. Yet I am making a genuine attempt to make a serious point, even though I degenerate into foresaid faults.
Rio Tinto Ranger Mine Water Disaster Repeat of the Past of Too Many Slimes Dams
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, consulting, Investing & Finance, Mining history, Tailings, Uranium, tagged Australia, ranger mine, Rio Tinto, slimes dam, Tailings, tom albinese on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here is a picture of a mining disaster waiting to happen. This is a mine in Australia that is shut down because too much rain has filled their tailings impoundment and they appear to have no facilities to treat water hence to release it.
Weekend Sermon: Anglican Bishop Attacks Mining; while BC Celebrates Mining; and Australian Mining Salaries Hit the Roof.
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, British Columbia, Church, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, tagged Anglican, Australia, BC Mining Week, Bishop, Fort McMurray, penhorwood, tom morgan on May 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sunday night looking to Monday and a day on the oil sands mines. Flew from rainy Vancouver to sunny Fort McMurray. Tomorrow we will deal with issues of surface water management and the failure of sand berms inundated by ponded water. A salutary lesson in the need for proactive and conservative planning before starting construction.
Rum Jungle, Australia. Failure of Uranium Mine Closure Works
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Mining history, Reclamation, Uranium, tagged mine closure, rum jungle, UMTRA, Uranium on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It is crass to take pleasure in the failure of arrogant people to achieve what they once bragged they would do. Yet I cannot suppress a faint, incorrect spark of a smile when I read of the failure of the closure works at the Rum Jungle Uranium Mine, near Darwin, Australia.
Fraser Institute’s 2010-2011 Mining Survey: The Judgement of Paris?
Posted in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, British Columbia, California, Investing & Finance, Latin America, North America, tagged Fraser Institute, fraser institute. judgement paris, judgement paris, mining on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Annually the Fraser Institute comes out with a survey of mining countries and ranks them according to how good a place it is to try to find an ore body, to open a mine, to operate a mine. The Institute gives you a good guide about where to invest. I pay considerable attention to what they say. For this [...]
Mining’s Role in the Australian Economy
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Jobs and Salaries, tagged Australia, economy, mining on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At this link is a ten-page paper entitled Structural Change in the Australian Economy. It makes for interesting reading if you care about the role and contributions of mining to the Australian economy. Here is just one paragraph that sums it up:
Water in Mining: Use & Abuse of the Conference Vacation
Posted in acid mine drainage, Australia and New Zealand, consulting, Oil sands, tagged conference, mining, perth, water on September 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This is why this is the first blog posting this week: a visit to the oil sands to consult; and a big meeting with a client from the Northwest Territories who is faced with an expensive decision. Along the way, plenty of opportunities to chat and eat with great mining people. I sometimes wonder [...]
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