by dcameron | Aug 6, 2022 | Climate Change, Critical Minerals, ESG
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 | Climate Change, Critical Minerals, ESG
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 | Grade Control, Mine Geology, Mineral Resources
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 | Feb 3, 2022 | Grade Control, Mine Geology, Mineral Resources
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...
by dcameron | Sep 6, 2020 | Geo Logic, Geostatistics, Measurement Systems
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...
