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The young will step up to the mining challenges of 2010 plusToo often we read about the impending “crisis” in the mining industry when all the old folk like me retire, supposedly taking our expertise away with us and leaving a void in the knowledge and experience field. Ben Wright, 91: a Colorado mining legend passes“Benjamin L. Wright, Jr. was 91 years old. He was involved with mining in Park county beginning in the 1930’s with the Phillips mine in Buckskin gulch, later with Leadville Lead on Mount Sherman. He started putting together the London mine properties in the 1950’s and was a major mine owner in Park, Lake and Summit [...] Cardiff Mining History Cardiff was once the coal mining capital of the world. Just besides the harbor was the coal exchange where the daily price of coal was set. Mining in Wales goes back much further than that. The native-born, Welsh-speaking miner who was my host told me that the Romans in the days of the Empire mined [...] Almost Clinton: China blocks the blogs and kills the minersYou do not have to be a Democrat to agree with Hillary Clinton when she says that countries that cannot freely access the internet will be left behind. I suspect that not only will these countries be left behind, their citizens will die in disproportionate numbers. Lithium resources in the general publics’ news forumHey, the general public is turning its cyber-eye to a mined resource — lithium — with news about what lithium is used for in our daily lives: Fort McMurray mining, Haiti and disaster deliberations It is plus ten degrees Celsius in Vancouver–balmy weather for mid-winter. It was minus ten degrees Celsius in Fort McMurray–also balmy weather for mid-winter. The temperatures in Fort McMurray are perfect for the field work that took me there: cold enough to keep everything frozen, but not so cold as to impede working outside constructing things. |
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