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The unsung heros of mining are those who work quarries and gravel pits. We focus on metal mining because of the glamor and precious things they bring us: gold, silver, platinum all grace our weddings and that horde of precious things we bequeath our offspring. But we survive and live by virtue of the quarry and gravel pit operator.
Think again if you think your job is safe. Do not believe all the university tells you about your skills being in short supply. At least this is potentially true if you are an engineer in Canada, the United States, and maybe most of South America. My advice is make sure that whatever you do on the mine or for the mine, can only be done by walking around the site or requires you to be a registered professional in the jurisdiction of the mine. Any job that can be done remotely, probably can be done by an outsourcee. Let me explain.
Mines as instuments of social policy and vote buying? Seems this was the case for many years in Germany. Speigel Online reports that the last eight coal mines in Germany are finally to be closed. Apparently imported coal cost €60 a ton, whereas it costs €200 a ton to produce coal from a German coal mine.
Caros Geológos, Engenheiros de Minas e outros profissionais envolvidos na área,
Nossa cultura é preservada com o conhecimento do nosso passado. Sendo assim envio alguns fatos da época de Cabral:
Vancouver’s annual Mineral Exploration Roundup was kicked off this morning with a CEO breakfast at the Westin Bayshore Hotel. With a handful of protesters outside the hotel outnumbered by the police on duty, the President and CEO of DeBeers Canada, Jim Gowans, informed the assembled mining-friendly audience about the activities of his company and its role in diamond exploration, production and marketing.
Is there really a shortage of mining engineers or is there simply a surplus of professors looking to grow their departments? An egregious example can be found in the the Sowetan Huw Phillips of the Wits School of Mining Engineering, South Africa, calls for training of mining engineers so they can be “poached” by developed countries.
Threatened strikes at Sudbury remind us that there is no such thing as “the mining industry.” This frequently used term is just a label that groups together a disparate set of agents seeking resources. Consider the situation in Ontario. InfoMine reports: “Negotiations between Xstrata PLC and the Mine Mill & Smelter Workers union at the former Falconbridge nickel operations in Sudbury, Ont., are back at square one. The union said Friday that its bargaining committee rejected a company offer, the company spurned a counteroffer Thursday night, and ‘as of today everything is off the table.’ “
Hoje esta um belo dia, aqui em Vancouver, com o sol brilhando no céu !
Caros , o mercado de trabalho para a mineração está aquecido.
Oportunidades estão aparecendo, em função de novos projetos, novas empresas, entrando no Brasil.
Portanto, escolham companhias que priorizam o ” ser humano / profissional ” e seu trabalho.
Qualidade de vida e um bom salário não andam em caminhos opostos !!
Acessem o website htttp://www.brasil.infomine.com e chequem novas oportunidades !
Mining is not for the faint of heart. You must admire the fortitude of those trying to develop the Cigar Lake uranium mine. They seem to be swimming (drowning) in problems: another delay as they continue to drill and grout to control flooding of the workings. Problem is—as I am reminded by my anti-nuclear friends—that if you can’t get it out safely, how can you use it safely, and how can you dispose of it safely? We must hope they get control of this engineering problem sooner rather than later—for their own good and the image of the industry.
Here is one way to set the proper price of an ounce of gold, a method based on over two thousand years of data: compare the price of an ounce of gold to the price of a good suite of clothing for a high class man. I read many years ago that it took one ounce of gold to buy a toga for a Roman senator. I know that my wedding suit cost just about the same as an ounce of gold cost on the day of our wedding.
