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...
by dcameron | Nov 15, 2018 | All
It is pretty common to read 43-101 format technical reports on Mineral resources for new deposits that include significant Measured mineral resources. In my opinion, this classification of resources is often not merited. Let’s review the CIM definition: “A Measured...
by dcameron | Oct 15, 2018 | All
For those vein miners who might read this, let’s discuss a bit about drilling angles. If any of us are asked if we want to drill across structure or down structure, most of us will always choose the former. For those who wouldn’t, please take this...
