A short note on another of those mining oddities one finds in a day of surfing Google for serious information.  Form Sinclair Knight Mertz (SKM) is this short piece on Heap Leaching - Limiting Long-Term Environmental Liability.   A nice collection of deep technology and engineering, with an added touch of doubt and concern.  Required reading if you or yours are about to build or approve a heap leach pad. 

What sixties hippie could resist a DVD called Zen and the Art of Rock Bolting?  Here is my opinion about a NIOSH health and safety DVD: I wax lyrical and enthusiastic for a minor masterpiece I recommend to all who seek to understand mining and miners.

Last night I settled down in front of the TV with a stiff drink and a DVD from NIOSH called Zen and the Art of Rock Bolting.  The stiff drink to fortify me against another health and safety video–for we have all seen some of those terribly cloying productions as we sat trapped in yet another health and safety update course.   I had been asked for my opinion on this and seven other NIOSH productions.

The drink went down well, and yet another followed, not from distress, but from admiration and enjoyment.  This is a damn good DVD movie.  Fascinating in fact.  I have recommended it to all my friends and relations and I will get the young kids around InfoMine here to watch it one lunch time. 

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