We’ve all had them. Whether you call them eureka moments, epiphanies or whatever, we’ve all had them. My son had a professor who called it toilet philosophy. […]
Passion. It is what you get out of bed for on a Monday morning. I know, it’s not always there. But if you want to live your[…]
Mining has been going on for a long time. How long? Well, that depends on what you call mining. According to Wikipedia, mining is the extraction of[…]
The other weapon we have in our quiver is the review process. The Standard refers to various types of reviews, all of which are important, and all[…]
In the previous way of doing things, a limited (or no) alternatives assessment was completed. For example, most commonly, an area near the mill was identified early[…]
Let’s discuss risk further. Risk is defined as the product of the probability of an event occurring and consequences resulting from the event. Risk analyzes are a[…]
The day’s first light dimly began to brighten the early morning sky. Low clouds on the horizon to the east would slow the sun’s early light. There[…]
A while back, I wrote an article that appeared as a web-only article in Mining Engineering Magazine. That article can be found here: https://me.smenet.org/reader.cfm?webArticleID=3376 I reproduce that[…]