Following a couple of stints in the US Marine Corps (thank you for your service), working as a cook and a hod carrier (Google that!), my dad[…]
First, what is mining? Mining is the extraction of rocks (stone) or minerals from the earth. Some mineralized deposits are of economic interest to the miner or[…]
Lunar mining? What in the world? Have we already depleted this planet to such a point that we need to begin exploiting other celestial bodies? Nope! But[…]
My friend, who I will call “Joe” was commenting to me about my blog, and how Joe has found some of the articles to be especially helpful[…]
The year was 1985, or there-about. I was in the ground control group at the US Bureau of Mines in Denver. Somebody referred to us as the[…]
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine was commenting on my blog, and said that I shouldn’t be afraid to change things up. Post a recipe,[…]
It seems like impossible things happen all the time. As a breather, let’s examine the first stanza of the poem, “It Couldn’t Be Done”, by Edgar Guest: Somebody[…]
Preamble. Since the failure of the Mount Polley TSF in British Columbia and Samarco in Brazil, many things have changed in the tailings management industry. New guidance[…]