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Stunning 3D 'Fly-In' aerial views of mines and properties are
now available from InfoMine db, our comprehensive companies and
properties database. Access to this new feature is free to all
users and only requires the installation of the Google Earth application,
which is also free. The link to the 3D 'Fly-In' for a specific
mine or property is located on the Satellite Image page of the
property. Simply click on this link after you have installed the
Google Earth application and you will 'fly' to the property location
using Google's impressive 3D interface. The satellite image and
3D 'Fly-In' view is available for all properties where we have
latitude and longitude information, approximately half of the
10,000 properties listed on InfoMine db. To quickly find a property
use 'Quick Search by Property' - on the home page of the Companies
/ Properties section. Try 'flying' to a mine or property today
- it's FREE!
 
View these examples:
Highland
Valley Mine (Teck Cominco)
Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP)
Chuquicamata
(Codelco)
Red
Lake Mine (Goldcorp)
Cortez
(Placer Dome)
Anybody with ambitions to be anything in the mining world will
already have booked a trip to Beijing in November for CHINA
MINING 2005 . It will not be just those who have an interest
in projects in that vast, and largely unexplored country, but
also anyone who want to meet potential buyers for product. Again,
this does not just mean buyers of bulk minerals such as iron ore
and coal, but any other metals and minerals for which there are
no organized end markets such as cobalt, tungsten, molybdenum,
tantalum or beach sands to name but a few.
Nor does it end here. The Chinese have shown that they are interested
in investing in primary production. Maybe the surplus dollars
generated by trade with the US can fill that vital role in funding
capital development of mines without recourse to Western banks
with their one-eyed focus on hedging.
China has never been as focused as it is today on strategic
co-operation opportunities with the international mining community,
both at home and abroad. China's large resource market, excellent
business opportunities, as well as potential for new partnerships
and financial arrangements are increasingly attractive to world
wide mining enterprises together with their supporting financial
and consulting services.
As His Excellency the Vice Premier of the People's Republic
Of China, Zeng Peiyan confirms, "We wish to develop further co-operation
opportunities in the international mining industry at all levels
and areas of the value chain, in varying manners and approaches,
in order to establish a stable, economical and safe supply of
resources."
Last year CHINA MINING 2004 hosted over 1,500 delegates at the
Beijing Hotel. This year it is moving to the Beijing International
Convention Centre where Asia's premier mining congress and exhibition
will be hosted by the Ministry of Land and Resources. Over 2,000
industry and government leaders are expected from the international
and Chinese mining community.
If you haven't booked yet for November 14 - 17, get your skates
on! For details click here.
Custom vs. Standard – Demystifying the Debate-Eric
Leclair
The push for standards in today’s marketplace certainly does
have its advantages. Using standard components makes it easier
to manage inventories, and helps facilitate technical support
and customer service. For example, if you have only one type of
screw in your assembly, and a customer calls to say he is missing
one, you’ll know what to send him without forcing him/her to guess
what the TPI (thread per inch) is. It can also help streamline
your parts vault, because let’s face it; nobody enjoys the task
of controlling revisions. more...
Contract buyers are not the key driver for steel prices--Jeremy
Platt
Buying just four times a year, as do many major steel mill customers,
can be extremely beneficial to consumers when the market is trending
upwards. In contrast, it can be detrimental in the downturn. more...
The DUX DT26 low profile end dumps are a hit-DUX Machinery
A total of eight DUX model DT26's with 28-ton (25.4 metric tonne)
payload capacity were purchased in 2005 alone by a client in South
America. The last two are scheduled to leave the DUX plant by
the end of this month. more...
Mining Education Forum at the CAMI Conference in Banff
An open discussion on the role of continuing education on the
Internet in the context of the looming human resources crisis
in mining will be held on October 31. This forum is part of the
next Computer Applications in the Mineral Industries (CAMI) conference
in Banff. Anyone with an interest or experience of continuing
education, distance learning, online learning or engineer-in training-programs
is invited to attend and contribute. The forum will be moderated
by Malcolm Scoble, Professor and Head of Mining Engineering at
the University of British Columbia , and Simon Houlding from EduMine
More...
Second Course in the Mill Operating Resource Series now Available
The Mill Operating Resource is for people who need to understand
and operate the equipment used in mineral processing. It comprises
a set of highly practical courses developed from the author's
30 years experience of supervising and directing mill operations
and from his own training needs. The Mill Operating Resource -
2: Mineral Recovery is the second course in the set ... it covers
classifiers, pumps, flotation methods, leaching and other methods,
thickeners, filters, driers and mill safety
More...
 
InfoMine has added two new sections to its collection of commodity-focused
sections.
The Coal section provides extensive information on news, events,
careers and publications about coal mining. This will shortly
be supplemented by information on coal mining companies and their
projects. Check out the new Coal section here.
The Oil Sands section covers news, events, careers and publications
concerning the unique oil sands deposits primarily in Alberta,
Canada. Links to key oil sand mining companies are also provided.
Check out the new Oil Sands section here.
Attention: Employers and Recruiters
We have a new poll on the Careers Home page – and we really
need your input – the information we gather from this poll will
help all Human Resources personnel – so please take a minute of
your time to fill in the form – it is anonymous – and we will
publish the results:
Jobseeker poll results are as follows:
- Over 68% of viewers look at only HOT and OPEN jobs
- 21 % of visitors look amongst all the jobs for opportunities
- Almost 43% of visitors visit on a daily basis
- Almost 15% of visitors would like email alerts (we are working
on this!)
- Over 13% of visitors submit their resumes to an on-line database
(we have one – consider putting yours up too)
If you would like to take the poll you can do so by clicking
here
and if you have any comments or suggestions the editor
would be delighted to hear your thoughts.
Please visit our Employers
of Choice - there are always new jobs going up.
InfoMine is very pleased to announce the opening of an
office in Brazil specifically to cater to the needs of the local
mining and mineral exploration industries and to act as a local
mining information collection centre. The office, a joint venture
with local partner Pimenta de Avila Consultoria Ltda, is managed
by new local employee Claudia Brant.
Please free to contact Claudia at InfoMine Brazil SA, Alameda
da Serra, 420 - sala 408, Nova Lima, MG CEP: 34000-000, telephone:
+55 (31) 3284-9256, email: cbrant@infomine.com.
InfoMine will be exhibiting at Cambridge House's Resource Investment
Conference in Toronto, Oct 2-3 2005. This annual conference, held
at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, is always a popular one,
featuring leading junior resource exploration, development and
producing companies and presentations from an impressive array
of newsletter editors, analysts and industry professionals. Come
by and meet InfoMine's representative, Wally
Jonsson, at Booth #504.
InfoMine will also be exhibiting at the 16th International Mining
Congress at the World Trade Center in Veracruz, Mexico, October
12 - 15 2005. This conference, held every two years at various
locations throughout Mexico, is one of the leading mining events
in Mexico. Come by and meet InfoMine's Mexican representative,
Carlos
Obregon at booth #345.
Marrying a Madman!
A young bride-to-be was shopping for material for to have a
night gown made for her wedding night. She found the pretty, lacey
material she was looking for and told the store clerk that was
exactly what she wanted for the special occasion. The clerk asked
the bride-to-be how much of the material she would need for the
night gown.
The bride-to-be answered, “I’ll need about 30 yards.”
Astounded at the large quantity for one night gown, the clerk
replied, “Why so much for one night gown?”
The bride-to-be replied, “Oh, I’m marrying a geologist. He’d rather
hunt for it than find it !”
Well Trained!
Three lawyers and three engineers are traveling by train to
a conference. At the station, the lawyers each buy tickets and
watch as the engineers buy only a single ticket.
"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asked
one of the three lawyers.
"Watch and you'll see," answers one of the engineers.
They all board the train. The lawyers take their respective seats
but all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door
behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor
comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door
and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a
single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes
it and moves on.
The lawyers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So
after the conference, the lawyers decide to copy the engineers
on the return trip and save some money. When they get to the station,
they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment,
the engineers don't buy a ticket at all.
"How are you going to travel without a ticket," asks one perplexed
lawyer.
"Watch and you'll see," says one of the engineers.
When they board the train, lawyers cram into a restroom and engineers
cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward,
one engineer leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom
where the lawyers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says,"Ticket,
please."
If you have any humorous stories about mining or just want to
inflict misery on our readers with jokes worse then mine, we would
love to get your input. Please email the
editor with the subject line marked "InfoMiner Jokes".
Every month in the InfoMiner we give you computer tips
that save you time and effort, but what about some computer tricks
that will drive your irksome co-workers insane or leave your tech
department baffled? How about pranking someone with "Clippy" possibly
the most irritating word software assistant ever devised. Or maybe
you want to give someone a start menu that does nothing at all.Or
everyone's favourite classic the fake delete, watch as your colleagues
face contorts helplessly as he sees months of hard work dissappearing
into a vortex. The best part of this is everything is safe and
harmless but looks extremely authentic.Remember to check out the
"how to remove prank software" link to save unnecessary blushes.
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on InfoMine. This is just an example of how our search provides
excellent and pertinent results for any topic you wish to
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This article is copyrighted by and all rights reside with
the author Elizabeth Gibson
 Gold
and silver strikes made millionaires and paupers, settled new cities,
and civilized many parts of the West. But no other strike had more
influence than the Comstock Lode discovered on Mount Davidson in
western Nevada. The Comstock Lode was not a single mine but a huge
geological formation of ore which many shafts sunk into it.
Though others may have known about the silver, it wasn't until
Peter O'Riley and Pat McLaughlin discovered the lode about June
1, 1859, that the silver lode became public knowledge. They were
working a claim along Six Mile Canyon and were just about to give
up. They were digging a hole to store water when they struck a
rich deposit. They knew they had something but they weren't quite
sure what it was. Just then, H.T.P. "Old Pancake" Comstock rode
up. He immediately recognized the value of the strike but did
not let the two men in on the secret. He tried to claim they were
digging on land that belonged to him. O'Riley and McLaughlin insisted
they had a prior claim. Comstock relented, stating that as long
as they added Comstock and his friend Emmanuel Penrod to the claim
then he would be satisfied. After that, Comstock named himself
superintendent and did all the talking. Soon his name became associated
with the Lode.
Unlike the easy placer mining in California, the silver at Mount
Davidson was deep underground. Deep shafts and tunnels had to
be blasted through solid rock. Cave-ins were common. In 1860,
the owners hired mining expert Phillip Deidesheimer to design
a safer mine. Deidesheimer had puzzled over the problem for several
days when he was inspired by watching a bee. He thought he could
build a structure similar to a honeycomb that could be used to
shore up the tunnels. His cubes became known as the "square set."
Soon the square set was in standard use and it was immediately
copied by German and Austrian coal miners.
The incredible heat below the surface caused another problem.
The temperature could reach 130 degrees, and sometimes there was
steaming hot water to go with it. At times, shifts lasted only
one half hour because that was all the men could endure. In between
shifts, the men chewed ice. Each man received a daily allotment
of 95 pounds of ice! They got a little relief when the owners
drilled ventilating shafts, but it wasn't enough. It wasn't until
the late 1860s, that two huge air pumps were installed to blow
forced compressed air through pipes to cool down the shafts.
Soon the amount of silver coming out of the mine reached the
attention of President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln needed the riches
of the Comstock Lode to finance the Union's efforts in the Civil
War. He also needed the votes of another state to pass the 13th
Amendment to abolish slavery. To meet legal requirements, the
Nevada Constitution had to be delivered to Washington D.C. in
person. So Nevada officials telegraphed the entire constitution
to Chicago, where it would be written out in longhand and delivered
to Washington. It was the longest telegraph in history. It took
Frank Bell over 12 hours to tap it out and it cost over $4,000
to send! The requirements were fulfilled, and Nevada became a
state on October 31, 1864.
There was also the problem of transporting the ore off the mountain.
The Virginia & Truckee Railroad was the solution. The new railroad
was built from Virginia City to Reno along the Truckee River.
Construction began on February 19, 1869. The first 21 miles between
Virginia City and Carson City were completed in eight months.
The route traveled through six zinc-lined tunnels. The zinc protected
the timber shoring up the tunnels from the fountain of sparks
that spewed out of the train's smoke stack. Once completed the
train was hauling 500 to 800 tons of ore off the mountain every
day. In return, the train took much needed supplies and timber
back up the mountain.
 Fifty
or sixty miles of the eastern slopes of the Sierras were stripped
of trees to supply the mine and the nearby towns of Virginia City
and Gold Hill. All the closest trees were harvested right away,
so lumbermen were forced to venture farther up the slopes. The
Pacific Wood, Lumber, & Flume Company built a wooden trestle that
floated logs from the shores of Lake Tahoe to the mining site.
The loss of the trees changed the climate in the area; warm weather
came sooner and often melted the snow all at once, causing floods
that swept through Virginia City.
Many men made their fortune here. John MacKay was one of the
first. His good fortune started when he invested some money that
he had earned working for wages and bought shares in the Kentuck
mine. Within six months, the shares were worth $22,000 a share!
Soon MacKay and his partner James Fair held a controlling interest
in the Hale & Norcross Mine. They made so much money that they
were able to buy even more properties. With their partners O'Brien
and Flood of San Francisco, MacKay and Fair also acquired controlling
interest in the Virginia City and Gold Hill Water-Works; several
quartz mills; the Pacific Wood, Lumber & Flume Company; and several
other businesses.
Many houses on Nob Hill in San Francisco were financed by the
mining millionaires. The Palace and Fairmont Hotels, many banks,
and office buildings were financed by Comstock money too. The
foundries and machine shops of San Francisco and other West Coast
towns worked day and night to fill orders for engines, boilers,
pumps, and all kinds of machinery to be shipped to the mines.
Ranchers and fruit growers in California shipped fresh produce
and livestock to the boom towns.
The mines started petering out in the 1880s. The impacts of
the fortunes of the Comstock Lode would long be felt. Innovations
like the square set changed the shape of mining. San Francisco
became a force on the West Coast. Many individuals became millionaires.
And a new state, the state of Nevada was born!
Previously published at Suite101.com by Creative Marketeam
Canada Ltd.
Contact the author Elizabeth
Gibson
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