by dcameron | Mar 12, 2025 | All
Like it or not, we got a taste of the power wielded by overuse of the word “science” in this decade. Heretofore, some of us innocently thought that science was an abstraction, but we subsequently found out that it can be used as a club. While we can...
by dcameron | Sep 2, 2024 | All
As I was skipping rapidly over the mining news and the now-standard genuflections to the “net-zero” energy transition in various sections of the magazine written by people who should know better, I paused on this page (below) for the irony. I wonder if I keep reading...
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...
