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Call it advertising if you will. By whatever name is goes, let success follow what can only be described as a magnificent gesture. We refer to the free computer code Examine2D 7.0 and the free e-book Practical Rock Engineering – New 2007 Edition available from Rocscience.
Some people collect stamps, some baseball cards, some back issues of delightful magazines. All this requires space and time. I collect mining project case histories. This requires no space and little time. Read it, enjoy it, admire or disparage its aesthetics and fact presentation, and then pass on to something else. Here are some places where you can indulge a passion for mining-related case histories.
The difference between the state visits to Africa by the Chinese President Hu Jintao and the Canadian Governor General could not be more stark. Hu Jinto arrived this week (early February 2007) in Namibia, a sparsely populated, mineral-rich desert country which has a population of only about two million people, and is rich in diamonds and minerals such as uranium, zinc and cobalt. Hu arrived from Zambia, where he inaugurated an economic co-operation zone designed to draw US$800 million in mining investment and create 60,000 jobs in the Copperbelt province. Hu is clearly seeking minerals and some mines will benefit.
He is the nicest person I know in the mining industry. Always a smile and slight laugh and then off to the next charismatic encounter. I refer to a very old friend, Dirk Van Zyl, and I want to add my congratulations to his being honored as the fourth person to get the Dr. Adrian Smith Award.
The most bizarre news item today from CTV:
An American diver exploring a collection of flooded iron ore mines in Newfoundland as a possible tourist destination died Sunday while diving at the site. The 51-year-old man, whose name wasn’t released, died during an afternoon dive into the mines in the community of Wabana on Bell Island, the RCMP said.
