Odds ‘n’ Sods: Local justice in Bulgaria
By the start of 1995, I’d been working as an exploration geologist for Rio Tinto in Turkey for about 18 months. I was unhappy with…
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The View from England: Time for iMINE
The mining industry could learn something from the late Steve Jobs, and introduce iMINE. No, not a chemical compound containing a carbon-nitrogen bond, nor a…
The View from England: Mining’s Royal lesson
Let’s be honest, it comes as no surprise that bullying, racism and sexism can be found amongst miners. What is shocking in the recently released…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: Hiring can be a fine art
Recruiting geologists and engineers for a project can be a tricky business. For all sorts of reasons, someone who comes across well in an interview…
The View from England: Arabian call to action at Future Minerals Forum
A mining conference without alcohol, and at which many delegates left when Mark Bristow and Robert Friedland took to the stage. You wouldn’t think such…
The View from England: It’s the economy, stupid
It is traditional at this time of the year to make resolutions and predictions. In our industry the latter invariably includes the forecasting of metal…
The View from England: On the rocks
There is one aspect of geology that makes even us mining engineers sit up and take notice, namely the relationship it has with whisky. I…
The View from England: Nubian gateway opens
Africa has dominated news in the United Kingdom since a new variant of Covid-19 (now called Omicron) was identified in South Africa on November 25….
The View from England: Party time is upon us
The U.S.A. is celebrating this week but Scotland will follow soon after, and there are few nations on Earth that know how to party like…
The View from England: Fuse lit for American ironworkers
Friday November 5 saw fireworks on either side of the Atlantic. Just as the big bangs were fading on Guy Fawkes Night in the United…
The View from England: China analysts remain in the dark
Miners are almost blind to demand trends in the largest consumer of metals and minerals. I don’t know how many Northern Miner readers celebrated October…
The View from England: Time to attack
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, will be held in Glasgow between October 31 and November 12,…