Env. Mining

It’s very useful when you’re trying to design a pit slope. The dark brown lines in the yellow column to the right are the fractures in the borehole wall. 

Drill rig, Alaska.

Midnight sunset. Gold mine in Alaska in June.

“A” shaft head frame. Old dominion mine, globe Arizona.

Install installing a telemetry system in the jungles of Ecuador.

This is a timber frame mining processing facility from the late 1800s in the town of Conception del Oro Zacatecas Mexico. The whole place is remarkably well preserved.

This is the tomb of the unknown soldier in St. John’s Newfoundland; they recently repatriated remains of someone whose DNA matched the Islanders. I was recently there for mining conference.

Closing this old tailings facility in Mexico today.

100-year old drawing of a rabbit on the walls of an underground gold mine made with carbide lamp carbon. From the las chispas mine, Sonora, Mexico.

This is acid rock drainage. As an environmental engineer in the mining industry, this is what I try to prevent.

I’m in the mining industry. I will post unusual photos of my unusual life. This is some of the highest grade molybdenum ore in the world. Molybdenum is an essential element in high grade steel, it’s also I think, the only metal that we use as a lubricant.