Mining has been going on for a long time.  How long?  Well, that depends on what you call mining.  According to Wikipedia, mining is the extraction of[…]

The other weapon we have in our quiver is the review process.  The Standard refers to various types of reviews, all of which are important, and all[…]

In the previous way of doing things, a limited (or no) alternatives assessment was completed.  For example, most commonly, an area near the mill was identified early[…]

Let’s discuss risk further.  Risk is defined as the product of the probability of an event occurring and consequences resulting from the event. Risk analyzes are a[…]

The day’s first light dimly began to brighten the early morning sky. Low clouds on the horizon to the east would slow the sun’s early light. There[…]

A while back, I wrote an article that appeared as a web-only article in Mining Engineering Magazine.  That article can be found here:  https://me.smenet.org/reader.cfm?webArticleID=3376 I reproduce that[…]

Tails, tailing or tailings? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. In one of the proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste, Prof. John Nelson[…]

As the philosopher Ferris Bueller famously said, “Life moves pretty fast.  If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”.  You[…]