Friday morning and the mining-related web is awash with reports of impacts on boreal forests and mountaintops.   Or maybe you can still get excited about Rio Tinto versus BHP–or is it still BHP versus Rio Tinto?  

My advice:  forget all that repetitive stuff.  Rather go to the mining site call THOTTBOT.  Here you can indulge in the beauty of copper smelting, bronze, silver, dark iron, elementium, and other rare substance smelting.  Generally all you need is a forge. 

And if you get tired of smelting rare substances, take a quick side trip to the top of the page and watch one of the mining-related movies.  Now why can the mainstream mining sites not have diversions like that?  Much better than links and libraries. 

Any rate enjoy the weekend.  I am off to California tomorrow and will blog in as the time and tide allow.