Posted in blogs, brandy, environmental, Latin America, Mining history, Tailings, tagged Arizona, bello horizonte, cement stabilization, New Mexico, paste 2013, Tailings on November 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Drive through the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico and see those magnificent red sandstone cliff, standing proud in spite of thousands of years of erosion. It is one of my favorite sights. It is spectacular to behold. It tells me that landscapes can be the same for very long times. (more…)
Posted in consulting, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, Oil sands, Tailings, tagged alberta, Arizona, Botswana, fraser alexander, job, Tailings on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fraser Alexander was a foreman on a mine in South Africa in the early 1900s. He was in charge of building the sand and rock dumps. He did this mostly by experience and native skill. One of the problems was the collapse of the advancing face that carried the coco-pans and their rail lines to the bottom of the dump. Fraser had a team of mules to collect this material for reuse. He was so well organized, he sat in his hut most of the day and watched the workers. This is where the mine manager found him, “doing nothing”, and so fired him. He went home to sit on the stoep and relax. (more…)
Posted in Coal, mining, Uranium, tagged Arizona, mining, production, statistics on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A quick Monday morning post. Some statistics on mining in Arizona. These numbers are lifted from Arizona Geology, always a good source of information about mining in that state. (more…)
Posted in Human relations and mining, Mining history, North America, tagged Arizona, department mines mineral resources, tea part on January 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Posted in About the news, Copper, environmental, Jobs and Salaries, Law (Mining), North America, People, tagged Arizona, cruz, hart, Rio Tinto, Rosemont Copper, state mining inspector on October 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Always on the lookout for strange and unusual happening in mining? Here is one from Arizona that caught my attention as I browsed through the blogs that mention mining. Seems the post of State Mining Inspector is on the ballot and, as you would expect, there is a challenger to the incumbent. (more…)
Posted in Gold, Investing & Finance, North America, People, tagged Arizona, earth explorations, green, green planet, mining on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in About the news, tagged Arizona, education, learning, Mary Poulton, SME, Tucson, university on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Is what Mary Poulton and the Mining Engineering Department in Tucson doing, the future of on-line mining education? What she and her faculty are doing is this: with a gift from industry they are videoing most lectures and putting them on-line. Currently only registered students can access the on-line video courses. But she tells me that you, as a member of the general mining public, could register as a special student and access these courses.
Posted in About the news, Copper, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, North America, tagged Arizona, California, Freeport McMoRan, jobs, mining, Morenci, taxes on February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mining jobs in Arizona pay pretty well. At least they used to. The details are set out at Arizona Geology. That great blog notes from a 2007 study — true, probably out-of-date, but interesting nevertheless:
Posted in About the news, tagged Arizona, institute, mining, research on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Arizona gets a new mining research insititute. We have been reading about this for the past few days hoping to find out what they will research. Here is one brief description:
Mary Poulton, lead researcher at the institute, has identified a wide range of projects to tackle, from water use to simulators for safety training to the feasibility of using mining sites for alternative-energy projects.
Posted in Church, Copper, tagged Arizona, Copper, mining, prayer, Saddleback church, Wal-Mart on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This quote from prayerbeacon, a blog that appears to list things Christians should pray for regarding the upcoming election. The site lists statistics and associated “prayer points” by state. This is a short statistic about Arizona:
The state’s per capita income is $27,232, 39th in the U.S. Arizona had a median household income of $46,693 making it 27th in the country and just shy of the US national median. Early in its history, Arizona’s economy relied on the “Five C’s”: copper, cotton, cattle, citrus, and climate (tourism). At one point Arizona was the largest producer of cotton in the country. Copper is still extensively mined from many expansive open-pit and underground mines, accounting for two-thirds of the nation’s output. The state government is Arizona’s largest employer, while Wal-Mart is the state’s largest private employer, with 17,343 employees (2008).
There are no employment figures for either mining or beer distribution in Arizona. But it is an interesting statistic that Arizona produces two-thirds of the nations copper. How much is imported one wonders. (more…)
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