This website is the product of conception of the twin evils of boredom and ego. It humours me to think that if you read this you will be able to make more informed decisions as you consider how you will develop your mineral property. Having worked in the mining industry most of my life it seemed appropriate to write a whimsical look at the industry with a view to simultaneously humoring and teaching. My goals are not lofty but they do hover. You should understand a few things about the creation of this website. For one thing, most of it was written while listening to CD’s of Yanni so if it gets a bit fluffy in spots that is why. So to whom will this appeal? Lots of folks I hope. If you are interested in developing a mining company but are kept awake with nightmares of the “Son of Bre-X” this will give you some tools to inoculate yourself against innocence. It is intended to give you some useful analytical tools with which to look impressive and there is an attempt to de-mystify both project financing and how to live a life of integrity… that’s the part that hovers a bit.. The website is broken into 5 main topic areas: Exploration, Modeling, Feasibility, Finance and Implementation. Everything you ever needed to know about each of these topics is contained in their sub-sites. Well, perhaps not everything but there is some cool stuff and it is arranged so you gain a sense of the chronological development of mining projects as well as some insight into some of the pitfalls at each stage of the process. The thinking is that an informed company builder is a wiser company builder who increases the odds of building something to be proud of and make some money at the same time. I have included another topic called “First Things” which includes a bit about my credentials - in case you are in need of a really good co-company builder.

• Techniques for assaying mineral samples
• Determining metal content from assays
• Chain of Custody is a quality control process
• Channel sampling for minerals
• Churn drilling to obtain mineral samples
• Separation of coarse gold by gravity methods
• Mine Project Construction
• Cu Flotation is for sulfide minerals
• Copper oxide leaching is an inexpensive way to recovery low grade mineralization.
• Cutoff Grade
• Debt investment from banks to finance mining projects
• Feasibility Study and Design Basis Memorandum
• Diamond drilling is a popular method of drillling mineralized rock.
• Dilution is the unmineralized material added to the mineralized material during mining.
• Drilling
• Mining Project Economics and Quality of Cost Estimates
• Elecromagnetic measurement to discover mineral occurrences
• Engineering a Modern Mining Project
• Environment Impact Assessment
• Gold and Base Metal Mineral and Mining Exploration
• Feasibility
• First Things
• Role of Geophysics in Mineral Exploration
• Geostatistics
• Low grades of fine gold can be separated by leaching methods.
• The engineering, construction and startup of mining projects
• Induced Polarization is a geophysical technique for finding mineral occurrences.
• Mine Infrastructure Design and Cost Issues
• Modeling mineral occurrences using the inverse distance squared algorithm
• Kriging
• Losses occur going from a resource to a reserve estimate.
• Magnetometry is a geophysical method of finding minerals
• Mapping coordinates and datum
• How to Map Rock and Mineral Occurrences in the Exploration Process
• Mineral Concentrate and Commodity Marketing
• Bench Scale Metallurgy Testing
• Calculating Mining Costs
• Financing the Modern Mine Development Project
• Mineral Resource
• Properties of Rocks, Minerals and Metals
• Reserves and Resources
• Models to represent mineral data
• Mineral Ore Body Modeling
• How to name rock formations
• Pb/Zn Flotation
• Private Investment to Finance the Mine Project
• Process Plant Design and Costs based on Process Flow Diagram
• Public Investment from Stock Exchanges
• Recovery is the percentage of mineralized material that is actually mined.
• Table describing mining reserves
• A table defining mineral resources
• Reverse circulation drilling is a method for obtaining chip samples of mineral occurrences.
• Review
• Locating mineral with rock chip samples
• Sampling Minerals and Rocks
• Social Development & Good Neighbour Philosophy
• Locating minerals with Soil samples
• Commissioning the mining project
• Finding Minerals from Stream Sampling
• Tools required for making geological maps
• Variability
• Building a Mining Company