Thanks for the comments: insight on this blog’s inner workings

Just a short note to those who have recently posted insightful comments on articles on this blog. 

I am “holidaying” with grandkids in California and can barely access the internet.  But the details of the blog, including vetting of the spam comments and posting of the valid ones, are managed by staff at InfoMine in Vancouver.  I owe them a big thanks for so ably keeping the site functional and neat. 

But more, I owe thanks to those who comment. 

I would like, in particular, to mention Rory McIlmoil who wrote a long and informative comment on a piece I posted on mountaintop mining and an alternative windfarm.  Rory, I would love to hear more from you and this situation.  Please keep us informed. 

To those who have fleshed out the issues on a piece on women in mining many thanks for the perspectives, opinions, and stories.  I have just seen my daughter, a civil engineer, off to work.  She was lugging along her two kids taking them to day-care.  Maybe i should have offered to look after them all day—but I really do not have the energy—it is enough to play with them at the pool and read books from five to nine.  How she keeps it all together, I know not.  But a tribute to all the women who have undertaken careers, motherhood, and/or both.  Somehow those earlier weekend spent putting in new stairs, painting ceilings, replacing rotting timbers, and paying university bills now seem worth it. 

Finally thanks to Fred Williams who brought our attention to a second proposed mine in Costa Rica.  Again another story to follow.