Mining blogs about: dust

Mining Google for mining jobs

This is corporate heresy.  The reason is that InfoMine runs a signifcant job site, CareerMine, where you can search for jobs and staff in the mining industry.  But if you like the random search routine of Google, you can find just as many jobs and potential staff if you do a search of the Google Blogs [...]

Kenndy as mining expert offers advice to Ontario & Indians

Shamelessly trading on his famous name, a junior member of the Kennedy clan who is a lawyer working for The Natural Resource Defence Council has sent a “terse” letter to the Premier of Ontario telling him to snap to attention and change the 1800s law that enables Vancouver-based mining juniors to go onto aboriginal-claimed lands to [...]

British Columbia Mining Week: Glass, Brass, and Pass the $

This week is Mining Week in British Columbia.  Some of the events include:

PricewaterhouseCoopers (one word!) releases their 2007 Annual Report on the BC mining Industry:  $988 per table of eight non-members at the Marriott.
Also at the Marriott, the Mining Suppliers, Contractors and Consultants Association of BC meet on Tuesday.  If you need to ask more, [...]

New Zealand invitation to make underground mining safer

As a “public service” I repeat this invitation–at the very least take a look at the submissions document; it contains many good ideas to make mining safer:
The Department of Labour would like your feedback on effective ways to improve the identification and management of hazards in the underground mining industry. The submissions document is available [...]

US and Canadian soldiers die in Afghanistan so tribal leaders and the Chinese can mine for gold

Tribes fighting tribes for control of resources, for revenge, and for the shear thrill of being young and vicious.  Here is a haunting picture from the New Yorker that has just published a superb piece by Jared Diamond in which he traces the deeds of Daniel Wemp in the New Guinea Highlands as he goes [...]

Mining Scruppies Unite

A new word: scruppies.  Defined as a socially conscious upwardly mobile person. 
They espouse causes that involve no support costs:

A good scruppie decries the death of 500 ducks–it costs nothing to say how terrible it is and to demand action. 
A good scuppie remains discretely silent about twenty people killed on the road between Edmonton and Fort [...]