Our “Odds ‘n’ Sods” column on this page continues to cover amazingly varied ground. Most, though not all of the columns deal directly or indirectly with mining themes and most, again, relate to an earlier period in the industry’s history — comprising reminiscences of men and women about frequently amusing or dramatic and interesting episodes in their own mining careers.
In just the past three months, for instance, the weekly “Odds” columns have covered such disparate subjects as a violent strike at a South African mine, the fight for jobs in the Dirty Thirties at Ontario’s gold mines, the danger of bears in Yukon exploration camps, mechanical mayhem at a small Rhodesian mine, the luck of the Irish during a 1930s British Columbia gold boom, and a bush pilot’s daredevil aerobatics over Noranda’s smoke stacks in Quebec.
There are thousands more such stories out there, and we know our readers would like to see them in print. We learned, from a survey we conducted late last year, that readers of The Northern Miner give the column a high rating.
The stories come from prospectors, geologists, mining engineers, among others, most with a wealth of experience in mining, and an interest in sharing some of the more off-beat elements of those experiences. We look for many more to come.
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