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[…]

What will mining be like in the future?  How will it be carried out?  How different will it be?  Certainly, at some point we will be mining[…]

Hey, have you read any good books lately?  I mean a book on management, performance, business, organization, self-improvement and the likes.  Instructional books.  Educational books.  Have you[…]

So, do I need a do-over from Part 1?   In Part 1, I said that geotechnical engineering consists of two parts:  foundation engineering and soil mechanics.  This[…]

I have found that this has been a pretty common question throughout my life.  What is a geotechnical engineer?  I tell people that it’s the engineering you[…]