by dcameron | Mar 20, 2023 | All
With all this talk recently about artifiicial intelligence, we need to be careful with its application. A fairly long time ago I was Chief Geologist for a mining company that had recently purchased an operating gold mine on a southern continent, the geological staff...
by dcameron | Nov 20, 2022 | All
I’d like to introduce the patient reader and my clients to a conceptually simple tool that is useful for the assessment of resource risk. The Drill Hole Information Effect (DIE), as I propose to call it, is the observation that the deeper...
by dcameron | Aug 6, 2022 | All
It’s time to get the pile of magazines off my desk which serve as a daily reminder of ESG, Dr. Evil’s newest creation. If I can just write this post, wasting as few words as possible, I promise myself and you to return to technical topics. Writing my notes about ESG...
by dcameron | Jun 22, 2022 | All
Obviously, geology is not the oldest profession, but I wonder if, as the science of very old stuff, it’s logical that we practitioners would so easily sell ourselves? What on ‘earth’ am I talking about? I’m not talking about a miner plunking his mercury-soaked...
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...
