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Technorati claims to give you a Technorati Profile and link your blog into the wider world on blogs. I am trying that right now so we can get more exposure. Also maybe I can get hold of more blogs on mining. Stay tuned and I will expand this piece on the larger world of blogs, mining, and opnions & news about world mining. One example: Philippine Mining News. And another: Tim’s El Salvador Blog.
Browsing websites can be fun. They open your eyes to details of the familiar that you had not previously noticed. And they can set you off thinking of family and fear. These trivial observations are occasioned by looking at the Firwin site. They make removable insulation systems. Not being sure what a removable insulation system is, I went deeper into the site. Here is what I found.
First to the military applications ( my son is right now floating around Iran as part of the US Navy presence that may yet free fifteen British sailors, or at the very least, contain crazy Iranian ambitions.) Do they supply the US Navy, and how is their product used? Maybe I should look more carefully at the Marine section.
There are, or at some time in the past have been, at least 270 mines in Jackson County, Oregon (Mindat) In the Jacksonville District there are the Grace Diggings, Jacksonville Placer, Norlin Mine, Opp Mine, Opp Placer, Town Mine, Williamson Mine, Winchester Housten Placer Mine, and Yellow King Mine. Gold mining in Oregon had its beginnings in Jackson County. Gold was discovered in 1852 on Jackson Creek. Here are some of the places from which 500,000 ounces of gold have been mined—and where today you can go and try your luck at finding more gold:
