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Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
United Church of Canada seeks to hammer Canadian Miners: Sign this petition!
Posted in About the news, Church, Law (Mining), tagged Canada, CIDA, petition, united church on March 22, 2013 | 3 Comments »
What Government has to do to Support and Make Mining
Posted in About the news, brandy, British Columbia, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), mining, tagged afgansitan, Anglo American, Canada, Chile, Chinese, Copper, democrat, escobal, Guatemala, jennifer moore, mining, navy, Pebble Mine, police, power, Red Chris, republican, romney, ryan, Taliban on September 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
MineWeb reports that workers have left the copper mine in Afghanistan being developed by the Chinese because of fears of Taliban attacks. It appears that the Taliban has target the mine, stating that they do not believe the people will benefit from the mine and that profits will be siphoned off by the Afgan elite and the Chinese. (more…)
2012 Survey of Canadian Mine Wages
Posted in Diamond, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, tagged Canada, fossil fuel, non-union, union, wages on June 27, 2012 | 5 Comments »
CostMine’s newly published 2012 Survey Results of Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits is now available. It is expensive; most individuals probably cannot afford it; you will have to get your union or human resources staff to order it if you want to see all the data. Thanks to the folk at Cost Mine, I can give some numbers that interest me and that may interest you. (more…)
2012 Mining Opportunities & Jobs (In Canada?)
Posted in About the news, California, Colorado, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, Mining history, Oil sands, Peru, tagged 2012, Canada, jobs, mining, opportunities on January 5, 2012 | 92 Comments »
In a previous posting on this blog, I made my mining predictions for 2012. One of them was that we would be regaled by a continuing plethora of articles saying mining will be detrimentally affected by a shortage of workers. Here is one comment on that posting (I edit for spelling and punctuation): (more…)
Canadian Major Mining Company Executive Compensation
Posted in British Columbia, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, North America, tagged Canada, compensation, executive, mining on August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
With everything related to mining and the economy in general seemingly falling–except the price of gold—let us delay a little and bask in the heady news of what Canadian major mining company executives take home—and presumably spend to keep the economy buoyant. These following numbers are from the CostMine 2011 Survey Results of Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits. (more…)
Canadian Mine Salaries 2011 Data
Posted in British Columbia, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Uncategorized, tagged 2011, Canada, mine, salary on July 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 as a percent of salary) (more…)
Canadian Mine Wages in Metal, Industrial Mineral, and Fossil Fuel Mines
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, tagged Canada, mines, Oil sands, wages on July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
From the CostMine 2011 Survey of Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages, and Benefits, here are some average hourly wages. For selected job categories, I provide three numbers. The first is the average on Canadian metal mines; the second on industrial mineral mines; and the third is on fossil fuel mines. (more…)
2011 Canadian Mine Benefits
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged benefits, Canada, mine, salary, wage on June 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you work on a Canadian mine, you probably get a reasonable wage. We all think in terms of and compare wages and salaries. But have you taken a look at the benefits that you “get.” Maybe not in real check dollars, but in “extras.” Now none of us can compare with Canadian Postal workers who get something like seven weeks leave a year, accumulate untold days of “sick leave” and drive A Lexus on retirement (I know at least one fellow who does!) (more…)
2011 Survey of Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages, and Benefits
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, tagged Canada, CostMine, mine, Oil sands, salary, wage on June 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What the Conservative Majority Means For Mining
Posted in About the news, Community relations, North America, People, tagged Canada, Conservatives, election, elizabeth may, Harper, liberals, mining, NDP on May 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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