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A reader of this blog sent me this link. It is a 2011 report on the economic benefits of the Fort Knox mine in Alaska. Although the report is from 2011, it still presents some statistics worthy of note. Here are some: (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘East Geduld’
Fort Knox, Alaska. A Driver of the Local Economic Engine.
Posted in blogs, brandy, Jobs and Salaries, mining, Mining history, tagged Alaska, daryl hockley, East Geduld, economy, fairbanks, fort know, mining on March 29, 2013 | 4 Comments »
The Rewards of Mining: Fiska Karma from Sweden
Posted in Mining history, tagged david pretorius, East Geduld, fishtail, fiska karma, pinegrove on December 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We, the mining brats, when we were little ities, would hang onto the fence during break at Pinegrove Primary School in Springs, South Africa and watch the cars go by. As mining brats we were more privileged and informed than the other kids. They never saw magazines; they knew nothing of new cars; their clothes were of cheap cloth and bad cut; we had sturdy metal bicycles; our parents worked on the local mine, East Geduld. (more…)
Britannia Beach Mining Museum in Winter: Memories of East Geduld & Union Corporation
Posted in British Columbia, consulting, Metallurgy, Mining history, People, Tailings, tagged bhp billiton, britannia mining museum, East Geduld, ted pavitt, union corporation on December 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Today I did not work. Instead I took a very old friend and his wife to the Britannia Mining Museum in winter. It was a clear, sparkling day; cold but brisk; beautiful views out over the sound to the distant blue mountains. (more…)
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. (more…)
Cooking for Miners. Eating at Mines
Posted in brandy, consulting, Gold, health, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, Oil sands, tagged bhp billiton, bull cook, cooking, East Geduld, Ekati, escobal, food, Fort McMurray, free state, Greens Creek, Guatemala, guatemala. suncor.il sands.east geduld. ekati, hawk inlet, marlin mine, Oil sands, Professor Jennings, Suncor, tro on February 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Most mines have a place where the miners eat. Let us celebrate the cooks at these places by telling of the many fine meals we have enjoyed in these mining canteens. In celebrating cooks at mining canteens, I also seek to describe a job in mining that most do not write about. If you like cooking, then maybe a job at a mine canteen is for you. (more…)
Acid Mine Drainage threatens Kwa Thema, South Africa. Is this really worse than Global Warming?
Posted in acid mine drainage, Africa, environmental, Global Warming, Gold, Reclamation, Tailings, Underground, Uranium, tagged AMD, East Geduld, Kwa thema, pollution, slimes dam, Tailings, Witwatersrand on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Growing up on the East Geduld Mine, a gold mine at the far east end of the South African Witwatersrand, we often went to play around the slimes dams and the pools of orange, green, and blue waters that dotted the landscape. Our parent forbade us to go there, for there were stories of kids sliding into pools, drowning, or worse, being entombed in collapsing caverns in the slimes dams. But that made our adventures all the more exciting. (more…)
Memories of Punch & Judy at the Mine Fete
Posted in Mining history, opera, tagged East Geduld, fete, judy, mine, Punch on November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I was young, growing up on a mine, East Geduld, in South Africa I had the full set of puppets for a Punch & Judy show. There was Punch with his curved nose and dropping hat. Judy had a big floppy hat and an inane grin. Recall the tragedy: they fight and Punch clobbers Judy to death dropping the baby along the way. (more…)
Why Not? A Personal History of Mining in South Africa
Posted in Africa, Mining history, tagged East Geduld, Evander, history, mining, South Africa on April 23, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The weekend looms. Nothing serious to say about mining. Thus here is something I found last night in my e-files while cleaning things up. It is a mere set of personal recollections fo growing up on a mine in South Africa in the 1950s. Enjoy it for what it is. (more…)
Remembrance Day tribute to soldiers and miners all
Posted in Church, Mining history, People, tagged East Geduld, Hillbrow, mining, remembrance day, Springs, Trinity, war on November 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Remembrance Day and I pay tribute to all soldiers and the miners they became. I pay tribute by recalling what little I know of my father’s life as a soldier and as a miner.
Tony Turtle, a homeless miner, may join Vancouver’s tent city dwellers, or buy a $1 milllion home in Tennessee
Posted in Coal, People, tagged Coal, East Geduld, homeless, mining, Rarity Mountain, Tennessee, tent city, tony hampson, turtle, Vancouver on August 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Tony Turtle Hampson, an Australian miner lives in a tent because he cannot afford a million dollar home. In the Oppenheimer park in Vancouver lots of homeless people who cannot work in the mining industry are living in tents—and seeking permits to do so. In Tennessee, a developer of million dollar homes mined the coal on the property before building the houses, and he is now in trouble—accused of mining without a permit.
All these stories about miners, tents, and million dollar homes put me in mind of the mine houses I knew.
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