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As a result of the tremendous response to InfoMine's Spanish Section, the Supplier's Section has developed a special package for those companies wanting to sell to Spanish speaking customers. To achieve this goal effectively, InfoMine's new package offers two Featured Listings, one in English and an exact duplicate in Spanish.
The main advantage of this package is that not only will your company have two Featured Listings, but your company's products and services will be found by buyers searching with either English or Spanish keywords in both InfoMine's Site Search and the Buyers Guide Search. In addition, having two Featured Listings will improve your company's potential for search engine placement. Please contact our Spanish representative Marcela Diaz if you have any questions.
InfoMine presente en Expomin 2004
Con la presencia de la Representante para América Latina, Marcela Díaz, y la asistencia del Ingeniero Ronald Guzmán, InfoMine presento sus servicios en ExpoMin 2004, considerada la feria más importante en Latinoamérica, localizada en Santiago de Chile. Con esta presencia, InfoMine pretende llegar con sus servicios en idioma español y portugués a Latinoamérica, consolidando su liderazgo informativo a nivel mundial.
La presencia de Infomine en Expomin sirvió para que clientes conocieran en detalle los servicios que ofrece InfoMine y sus múltiples ventajas dada la cobertura a nivel mundial y cantidad de usuarios que diariamente utilizan InfoMine como fuente de información Minera. Una especial interés hubo por parte de empresas en la base de datos de proveedores, EduMine y CarreerMine.
Adicionalmente, InfoMine sostuvo reuniones con organismos como la Comisión Chilena del Cobre, Ministerio de Minería e importantes empresas mineras, destacando Minera Los Pelambres, Minera Meridian.
InfoMine como líder informativo a nivel mundial, esta consciente de la importancia de Latinoamérica en la Industria Minera, motivo por el cual ya esta generando desde principios de este año, servicios informativos en idioma español y recientemente en portugués.
CareerMine has recently partnered with WHAT Oil and Gas Jobs to bring you a combined listing of jobs for the global resource industries.
You will find extensive opportunities for engineers, geologists, management, and many others shared between the mining, oil, gas and other resource industries. Visit this link regularly to see the latest opportunities in the combined job database.
New Site Enrollment Option is Popular with Mines
The new Site Enrollment option is proving popular ... currently enrolled mine sites include Yanacocha (Newmont) and Antamina (BHP Billiton, Teck-Cominco and Noranda) in Peru, and Ekati (BHP Billiton) and Kemess (Northgate Exploration) in Canada. Other (institutional and corporate) clients include Universities of British Columbia and Nevada, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, and Mintech Inc out of Tucson. Currently EduMine is in discussions with Placer Dome, Newmont, Konkola Copper and others. The Site Enrollment option provides a mine with unrestricted access for reference and learning purposes to all EduMine courses, tools and publications for all mine personnel ... for less than USD600 per year. Deliverables also include a "mine campus" web page and a large corporate discount on enrollment of individuals for certification purposes. Interested? Click here to learn more.
Multi-Lingual Online Courses for Mining
To increase the geographical coverage of its online mining courses, EduMine is converting its courseware template to provide seamless multi-lingual functionality. A prototype Spanish version of the template is currently available ... as well as a small but growing library of Spanish courses.
The XML technology on which the courseware template is based can now be rapidly deployed in other languages as well, such as Portuguese, or French. In fact, the new version of the courseware template can be switched from one language to another by changing a single parameter, please click this link to learn more.
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Story written by and credited to Carly Wickell
 Have you ever seen Orvil Jack turquoise? It's not something that you'll forget, especially the vivid green stones that have become its trademark color. Jewelry collectors who are fortunate enough to have pieces made from Orvil Jack turquoise usually won't part with them. I've been in love with this turquoise for awhile now, and tried to learn about the man it is named for, and his mine, but with little success. Luckily, Carol Weidman, a jewelry artisan who uses the turquoise in her designs, caught my error when I called it "Orville" Jack on a photo caption. She put me in touch with Grace Wintle, Mr. Jack's daughter, who patiently answered my questions about her father and their mine. |
Back to 1956... Orvil Jack and his wife, Bessie, moved their family to Nevada in 1956. Orvil chose a mining site and they staked a few claims in Lander County, naming their mine Blue Ridge. Grace shares this early childhood memory of summertime mining, "Mining was such an adventure... after my father would make a pass with the dozer, I would run over the newly exposed dirt and look for pieces of turquoise. I was probably more trouble than help, but what fun I had!" It's more difficult for smaller mining operations to continue today, due to the expenses associated with strict environmental regulations, mining laws and bonding requirements. Grace feels they are very fortunate to be able to continue to work their family's mine.
How It's Accomplished... Turquoise miners begin the mining process by using a large bulldozer to remove the top dirt, called overburden. The miner watches very closely for the first sign of turquoise, and once a vein or pocket is located, switches to smaller equipment that provides more precise dirt removal. After the turquoise vein is exposed, air hammers are used to drill around the sides of it, bringing the vein more into the open. Finally, the miners use hand picks and shovels to carefully extract the turquoise - and as Grace says, the rest is "good old fashioned hard work." The miner takes the turquoise to another spot to clean, refine, and sort it. During the cleaning process, a saw can be used to cut the turquoise away from its host rock.
Orvil's Favorites... Vivid green turquoise comes to mind when we hear the term Orvil Jack, but Grace says her father's favorite turquoise was always the beautiful blue spider-web variety, like the stone used in a bolo tie owned by her father. In fact, she says that "Growing up, I remember we rarely came across a green piece, and when we did, we were told to throw it down ... it just wasn't good enough to keep." He had a change of heart about green turquoise later in life. In about 1983, in one of the last places he dug for turquoise, Orvil discovered beautiful green stones. Something about them must have impressed him, because he continued to mine the area. He sold only a small amount of this "new" color, keeping the majority of the turquoise himself. Sadly, Orvil Jack passed away in 1986. A few years later, the family heard from Bob Hall and Lee Louden, talented bead-makers who were looking for the "fantastic green turquoise" from the Blue Ridge Mine. They bought the high grade, rough stones that were available, then returned the following year to help the family mine. Grace credits both men for much of the mine's success in the early 1990's.
It's All Natural... The Blue Ridge Mine produces blue turquoise, too, and occasionally the Wintle's find rare, lemon yellow stones. Grace says that Orvil Jack was a staunch believer in selling only natural, untreated stone. He would never have considered treating any of his turquoise, and they maintain that belief, guaranteeing artisans a totally natural product. Grace, her husband Jay, and their sons work the mine and sell rough turquoise to a group of jewelry artists, people they know personally and whose work they respect. They have a close relationship with their clientele, and try to accommodate their needs before accepting orders from others. Orvil Jack is a name that will be known forever to everyone who appreciates turquoise. The man and the mine have made an impact on the turquoise world, playing a huge role in the increased appreciation of green variations. What a wonderful legacy.
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