by dcameron | Feb 8, 2022 | All
Continuing on with more on the Anaconda system of technical control of mining discussed in Part I, particularly the Anaconda mapping method. In Part I, we had a look at the Anaconda technical control system for engineering and geology and how it was implemented at the...
by dcameron | Feb 3, 2022 | All
The mining industry has lost one of its best mining engineers with the death of James S Knowlson V this last January 2, 2022. Jim was the Chief Engineer at Anaconda’s Butte, Montana operations, starting there as an underground sampler in the late 60’s while he worked...
by dcameron | Sep 6, 2020 | All
I read an op-ed piece piece today by Malcolm Kendrick (RT News), a UK physician, who recounted an incredible metric-imperial conversion bust. In 1998, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Mars atmosphere because of a failure to convert thruster pounds of...
by dcameron | May 16, 2020 | All
At first glance, reporting of grade and tons from underground face sampling seems like a no-brainer application of simple arithmetic in EXCEL, right? Yup, no argument there…except, how come it is almost always done incorrectly due to faulty formulas, faulty...
by dcameron | Apr 9, 2019 | All
The idea for this blog comes fresh from reading a recently disclosed scam-nabulous 43-101 Technical Report for mineral resources. Watching how the stock ticker started moving up two days before the public release, I asked myself, how is it that such a poorly...
