In the heat that now, unseasonably, envelops Vancouver, we rode yesterday some twenty-eight kilometers up the Lower Seymour Reserve. All the way up to the salmon hatchery and beyond to a new view-point looking over the dam and reservoir. (more…)
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Mining Jobs: Translator
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged bike, jobs, lower seymour reserve, mining, translate, translator on May 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Mining Jobs at Cold Fly-in, Fly-out Camps
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged camp, fly-in fly-out, jobs, mining on March 16, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Just returned from a trip to a fly-in, fly-out mine where the temperatures were down to minus forty and fifty. The only consolation for the extreme cold was the company. Here are a few word pictures of some of the people I chatted to. I set them down here as a way to represent the extremes of jobs and careers in the mining industry, and specifically in the far north. (more…)
Walking a tight-wire rope: jobs and profit in Australian mining
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, Peru, tagged Australia, Chile, jobs, Peru, shovel, shovels, wire rope, wire ropes on September 17, 2012 | 3 Comments »
On the plane from Santiago to Dallas, I sat next to an Australian from Newcastle. He told me that he was on a round-the-world trip to promote his product. He explained that his company makes the wire ropes used on the big shovels so common in open-pit mining. (more…)
Jobs in Mining Process Engineering: Understanding The Process & Profession
Posted in Engineering - General, Jobs and Salaries, Tailings, Uncategorized, tagged alberta, Australia, jobs, madagascar, mining, Oil sands, process engineering on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When I think of a place or a country, in my ignorance I generally believe all the people who make up that country to be of a similar stock, have like personality traits and characteristics. That view of those people is either reinforced or altered completely when we meet someone who calls that place home and my impression of them will help me form a new idea of what is to be “from there”. (more…)
Cost Estimator Jobs in the Mining Industry
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Jobs and Salaries, mining, Money & Mining, tagged Australia, cost estimator, jobs on March 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The arrival at a big number before a project and the logging of smaller ones during – that is what I associate with the role of a cost estimator. It is one profession that I feel I know, not that I can do it; I just grew up with it. (more…)
Oil Sands Mining Jobs for British Columbia Academics and Graduates
Posted in British Columbia, Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, Peru, tagged Fort McMurry, jobs, John Wayne, research, Vacncouver on January 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A group of professors sat around a table in a glass-clad building and wondered why they are not involved in oil sands mining. They talked of getting funding for a new professorial chair—why does the oil sands industry not sponsor a chair at our university? They bemoaned the fact that none of their students wants to go and work at the oil sands mines. (more…)
The National Mining Association on Mining Jobs
Posted in About the news, blogs, environmental, Global Warming, Jobs and Salaries, tagged bill wilson, jobs, national Mining Association, nma, obamaccare, taxes on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Once more on the topic of unemployment and the role of mining in giving people jobs. Today I received the following from the U.S. National Mining Association, and it is an honor to be asked and to be able to comply. Jamie Caswell writes as follows: (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 | 88 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…)
Mining Jobs & Careers at and around the Tailings Impoundment
Posted in acid mine drainage, environmental, Jobs and Salaries, mining, Tailings, tagged career, jobs, mining, Tailings on November 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here are some careers in mining working on the tailings impoundment, tailings storage facility, containment facility, or whatever it is called locally. (more…)
Mining Jobs for Women
Posted in British Columbia, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, tagged bhpbilliton, civil engineering, consulting, Goldcorp, hunter dickinson, jobs, navy, Pebble Mine, UBC, women on September 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On the plane from Seattle to Vancouver: she sat next to me; she was tall, and ginger, with the white skin and freckles of the perfect. She told me she is a geologist en route to a weekend with her boyfriend, also a geologist doing a masters at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in exploration geology on a scholarship from Hunter Dickinson. (more…)
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