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2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 130,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see [...]

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Just a picture or two of a family & friend Christmas,  It is a time when you enjoy friends & family in spite of what they are rather than because of what they are.  When you recollect in celebration, in spite of all the mistakes, and laugh with equanimity at the disasters of the past year.  The winter [...]

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A major report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is entitled What’s It Worth?  The Economic Value of College Majors.   The report is long, over 180 pages and covers degrees ranging from Agriculture to Social Sciences.  Engineering is dealt with from page 110 to page 123.  

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Mining photos of mining trivia

No profound thoughts today.  Just a collection of fun photos from recent travel. Central City, Colorado and a view of the town and old mining activities in the background. A fox on a mine site somewhere. Colorful equal facilities at a mine remote from running sanitation. Clay cracking and shadows of the curious. A tailings [...]

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The most unusual news item today is that the Taliban has announced its support for mining the country.  That is mining as in mineral extraction from the ground, not blowing up everybody.  The Taliban says it will wait for all foreigners to leave the country before it fully supports mining. 

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I stoop to swearing to write about the Holday Inn at 3333 Quebec Street in Denver Colorado.  In summary they are guilty of false advertizing.  My advice is to never stay here and probably avoid Holiday Inn nationwide if this one hotel is an example. 

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Let us return to the CostMine 2011 Survey results of Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits.  Let us take a look at some salaries of those who work in Canadian mines.   Here are the salaries and bonus for salaried staff at one Canadian Mine (first number is in $ per year; second number is bonus [...]

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The story of tailings management is the story of application of a few basic principles.  All involve control of the forces of nature.  Once we worked on the  basis of observation and judgment.  Today we have computer codes for almost all and the work is done in back rooms by the junior engineers who feed [...]

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Browsing through the proceedings of the 1998 conference on Tailings and Mine Waste I came across three papers on the failure of the Merrispruit Tailings Impoundment. At this remove of time it is still instructive to reread these old papers and ponder the lessons learnt.   Here is a paragraph from the conclusions of one of the [...]

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On a joyous Sunday we would pile into the 1949 Mercury and head for the mine sand dumps. In the boot (trunk) of the car, we had stowed corrugated cardboard cut from old boxes. These precious pieces of cardboard we shaped, as best we understood, like sledges. My father regularly drove us out to those [...]

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