“Hi Michele. I’m working on an ore model and is it ever complex! Anyway, I’m thinking about producing a new table for Cu-equivalent grades. I was thinking about creating a field in the assay table with a formula to calculate the equivalents based on fluctuating metal prices. Got any ideas?”
That’s from my friend, Queen of Excel. [...]
I’ve been attending demos of mine modeling software lately. I do this a lot, sometimes in a pace of increasing intensity as the client I am advising is about to make a decision. Having been a Director of Product Development for a mining software company before, I am very familiar with the show and tell [...]
There is a reason I haven’t written a funny blog in a while. I’ve become obsessed with writing, “The Igneous Rocks of Tameapa – an exploration adventure story”, which is being published by InfoMine as an ongoing series of PDF chapters. I have submitted 4 chapters in cliff hanger type of short stories, all of [...]
Fly fishing and Mining, can it be? Can they exist in the same sentence?
Most “non-mining people”… (What should I call non-mining people for future reference sake? Hmmm, NMPs! That’ll do…) would shiver at the mention of these two industries in one thought. Most NMPs would never believe or be willing to accept the reality of the strong [...]
The following announcement was released today by Stuart A. Sanderson, President of the Colorado Mining Association:
“Today, the Colorado House of Representatives Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee voted to postpone indefinitely (kill) House Bill 08-1165. The sponsors of the amendment had agreed to limit the scope of the bill to amending the prospecting provisions only and, at today’s hearing, [...]
The mining industry of Colorado has come to a grand brink in South Park. For those who are unfamiliar, South Park, Colorado is not just a cartoon with foul mouthed kids. It’s an actual place within a region rich in wilderness, beauty, wildlife, and natural resources. The name “South Park” refers to a sequence of [...]
I found a place outside I like to sit in the morning sun before the muchachos show up for work. My morning place is behind a large pile of gravel that was dumped for cement near the end of the compound. It’s near where our wall drops off at the arroyo about 12 feet below. There are a [...]
I like to think I am the kind of core logger who tries to make the best of it, even if I am partly unhappy. I say, I LIKE to think of myself that way because people have unique perceptions of who they think they are versus the way they act. Same goes for core loggers. [...]
Core Logging, Sinaloa, Mexico, not saying where:
There has been a big black and white pig waiting for me I think every morning. It waits by a gate at the house next to our “compound” – (the drillers live in a row of rooms in a little house next to the house I live in and [...]
Sinaloa, March? Friday? 2008 I ran away from my company, from corporate, from data and computers, sections and 43-101 reports. I wanted to log core and that is what I am doing. I’m not saying where or for whom or what the type of mineralization it is, but I am in Mexico. Every morning I [...]
