On Saturday I posted a piece on the Pebble Mine. Here is one of the comments on what I wrote—the commenter takes me to task for consulting to the EKATI Diamond mine, while questioning the need for and the practicality of opening the Pebble Mine. First the comment and then my reply, which is an extended essay on [...]
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Mining History & Grandkids
Posted in Africa, British Columbia, Gold, Mining history, tagged East Geduld, free state, grandkids, kids, mining, South Africa, welcome on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An ordinary weekend preceding a Monday holiday. And yet extraordinary if you think hard about it.
Maps, Museums of Santiago, and Mines of Australia.
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, Mining history, tagged Australia, maps, mines, museum, santiago on May 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
While in Santiago, which I left yesterday, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts. They have an exhibition of old maps—those gorgeous colorful and ornate affairs replete with curlicues and swirls. I spent much time just stunned by the size and beauty of the maps.
Mining IQ: Weird and Wonderful World of Mining Book of Records
Posted in Mining history, tagged mining iq, records on May 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Here is an email a friend received and forwarded to me: Mining IQ has grown accustomed to our members sharing interesting mining related facts with us. So used to it, in fact, that we’d almost started to take it for granted. Almost…
Pablo Neruda on Chile Mining
Posted in mining, Mining history, People, tagged Chile, mining, pablo neruda, poet on May 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In search of books in English, I walked far around the northeast parts of Santiago. I found a small store at the metro station called Escuela Militar selling books in English. Before that I had walked past the military school that gives the station its name. The buildings are forbidding: vast arrays of columns and [...]
A walk through Santiago
Posted in Copper, Latin America, Mining history, tagged Chile, Copper, santiago on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Being a Sunday I took long walks through the city. Here are some pictures of things that caught my attention. A typical street scene with public clock and advert. The copper man–indeed a live human all dolled up in copper. The spires of the cathederal in the main square. This is the statue of [...]
Chile Placer Gold Mining
Posted in Gold, Mining history, People, tagged Alaska, Chile, Gold, placer miining on April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Before coming to Santiago, I had thought of Chile as a place of copper mines. Today I learnt that gold was and is a major mined product of Chile. Today I lunched with two young geologists exploring the hillsides above an old placer deposit which, they tell me, financed the founding of Santiago and ultimately [...]
Southern Africa Mine Map
Posted in Mining history, tagged brakpan, InfoMine, map, southern africa on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Those old sepia maps showing unvisited lands & seas and replete with words like terra incognita and mare usque, have always fascinated me. The hold a promise unfulfilled and unfulfillable—the promise of a strange land far away where dwell the dragons, monsters, and heroes.
Peru Trapped Miners: Sinking Titanic and the Miners Who Died
Posted in health and safety, Mining history, tagged cornwall, death, mining, Peru, titanic, trapped miners on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Fanagalo, Xhosa, or English as the Safe Mine Language?
Posted in About the news, Mining history, tagged Afrikaans, english, fanagalo, mine safety, South Africa, xhosa, Zulu, Zuma on April 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Languages come and go. New ones develop as old ones die out. Latin is now Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, and other dialects of Spanish and French. English may retain its Anglo-Saxon roots, but none of us can now read or understand early English which is effectively a foreign tongue.
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