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 [...]
The growing brouhaha in Leadville is beginning to look like a Fellini film – no, make that “Fargo” the movie. Competing television crews are on street corners hanging behind their reporters-on-assignment who are clutching their camel-hair full length overcoats to their chilly chins looking nervously over their shoulders for fear of avalanche, grizzlies, and the few [...]
There is an underground drainage tunnel in the Leadville historical mining district, Lake County, Colorado that has been determined to be in a state of immediate threat of flooding. This situation is due to obstruction by collapsed material over time and subsequent damming of both mine discharge and ground water. This obstruction has formed a [...]
The 110TH National Western Mining Conference and Exhibition was presented by the Colorado Mining Association in Denver this week and guess what they talked about? Here’s a clue: energy, mineral resources, China and India. Oh – and carbon constraints, too.
A fine talk by Vincent Matthews, State Geologist and Director of the Colorado Geological Survey, presented dolefully similar graphs to emphasize his [...]
Denver Mining Club hosted a pictorial essay by Dr. Daniel Harrison, “Photo Tour of Colorado Mining History – When Mining Was King of the Mountain.” After all the technical talks that have recently been presented at the meetings, (uranium metallurgy, in-situ uranium mining, Henderson / Climax Mine), it was nice to view and appreciate the [...]
The Bull & Bear Financial Report arrived at someone else’s office this week and I borrowed it. Headline: “How Would You Invest $10,000 in 2008?”
‘Hmm,’ I thought to myself. ‘That’s a really good question.’
My first conscious answer to myself was, ‘I don’t think I would invest in any more upstart mining companies or junior ventures [...]
Last Monday, the Denver Mining Club had a guest speaker, Maureen Upton, a consultant for Resource Initiatives, LLC. Her talk was on “Sustainability Issues in Mining.” My interest was triggered because I worked at Kennecott Greens Creek Mine, on Admiralty Island near Juneau, Alaska when they were completing procedures to comply with an ISO 14000. [...]
I know what it feels like to be dead yet still alive like a wraith, or to be caught in a tar pit like a giant sloth. I feel that way in the middle of big, long, drawn out data conversion projects. Your eyes get all dry and swollen. You’re dessicated. The sun beats down [...]
