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The weekend approaches, so time to sit back and take a trip down memory lane or read a good magazine. Last weekend I read in the 27 January 2007 New Scientist (no link as I found the site irritating and unhelpful) that in 1795 in County Wicklow in Ireland, a local teacher found gold in the local river.
To kill a miner all you need do is ignore ten trivial things. Taking care of any one of them would have kept the miner alive. Let me illustrate this by telling the story of the InfoMine Sales Manager, Waldemar Jonsson who returned from the PDAC convention all black and blue and beaten up. He was out walking in the cool Toronto air, admiring the magnificent architecture of the court house, when suddenly he found himself lying in a pool of blood. He had tripped over a chain strung low between two posts to deter pedestrians from accessing the icy paths of the park around the court house. As an American, I advised him to sue the court; as a landed-immigrant-Canadian (now that is politically correct), he just went to a government-paid doctor. There is a difference between the two cultures.
