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CORESafety is a a new way of addressing mine safety.  Go to the site at this link.  Follow through the site and the modules and you get a simple, yet powerful lesson in mine safety. 

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With a blogger’s eye, today I celebrate the miners who perished in the sinking of the Titanic.  Their story epitomizes the story of all miners; people who go to the next ore body; the next mine; the next chance to earn an honest living; and who face dangers and death at every turn & move.

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A radical thesis:  If I had a million dollars to invest in a single mine, I would go meet the mine’s Health & Safety Officer.  If they impressed me, I would invest.  If they did not, I would get on the next plane and fly to the next mine on the list. 

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One day there will be a big earthquake: in your city; at your mine; or some place on the ring of fire where there are many mines, any one of which you could be visiting.  As a matter of common prudence you should be prepared.  Here are two recent postings in the InfoMine Library that [...]

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Today was cold, mainly as a result of last night’s snow which left a wet slush on the sidewalks of the townhouse complex.  I trudged through the slush to dispose of garbage in the common shed from which it is collected at irregular intervals.   Lying in the shed was a yellowed copy of an old [...]

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What with Welsh miners in the news and possibly becoming a feature of the presidential election, let us turn to a story of the death of four miners last year in a Welsh coal mine. Here is what Queen Elizabeth said in her Christmas message about the deaths:

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From the ChinaDaily.com.cn a report that “Residents of Mianyang, a city in Sichuan province, have begun buying bottled water in a panic after authorities announced that the chief local water source had been contaminated by residue washed away by floodwaters from a local manganese plant.”

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Mining made the metals and money; so today I bought a new bicycle.  I do not need a new bike, but what the hell, it is beautiful and so light that I can pick it up with two fingers.

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  Sometimes tailings dam fail because of the poor quality of the construction.  Sometimes mine geowaste facilities fail because of poor design.  On the basis of today’s events, I conclude that they may fail because of poor concepts, poor understanding of the theory, and plain simple incompetence. 

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  The following arrived in my in-box this morning.  Enjoy. The Good news:  It was a normal day in Sharon Springs, Kansas, when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train for the long trek to Salina.

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