I cannot vouch for its accuracy, but it is worth reading if you like the way-out, i.e., the rugged little by-ways of mining.  Here is a summary to whet your attention to the complete article:

Ed recently bought a piece of land. It’s “contaminated” land, in that it used to be a coal mine, so it’s covered with mine tailings.   So Ed now owns this huge mound of coal dust, and the technology now exists to make it useful. In simple terms, you crush it up and make it into little briquettes. 

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In the first issue of a new e-magazine called Mining.com, is an article about salaries in mining. Here is what one young geologist e-mailed me about my Mining.com salary article: 

Hi Jack: it seems to me that salaries listed in that table at Mining.com - page 8 - are a little bit underestimated - even though we’re talking US. Have a look at the APEGBC Compensation Survey; there is no way that a Chief Geologist would bag a mere 71k in Canada, at least.

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