Thursday, September 6, 2018

Asteroid Mining is Almost Reality

iSN’T THAT COST A LIMITING FACTOR?

It very well could be. Simply put: the pricey part of this isn’t the R&D that goes into working out how to do asteroid mining. Nor is it the launches that take place to actually the achieve the goal. Instead, the really expensive bit is getting the materials back to Earth once we’ve mined them.

What will be mined? Why would anyone want to do this? And who are the main players in this (literal) space? Read on for a beginner’s guide to all things asteroid mining.

Read the whole story here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/beginners-guide-to-asteroid-mining/

Sunday, September 2, 2018

Name A Town LEADVILLE?

I wonder if you could find anyone today to name a new town LEADVILLE
Not if You Wanted Anyone to Live There. Unlikely I suspect. There are many stories about Leadville. Here are some of them from the Aspen Times.
Tony Vagneur

According to The Leadville Daily/Evening Chronicle, as quoted in a chapter of "Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the American West," Leadville had "19 hotels, 41 lodging houses, 82 drinking saloons, 38 restaurants, 13 wholesale liquor houses, 147 lawyers, 12 blacksmith shops, 6 livery stables, 3 undertakers, 21 gambling houses, 4 theatres, 4 dance halls, and 35 houses of prostitution." Nicknamed Cloud City, Leadville in the 1880s had a population of around 50,000 souls — only about 2,600 today.

Thursday, July 5, 2018

An Itty Bitty Experiment, Just For Fun!

Not to sure what this means for you but have a look. Good cartoons.

And it seems like there is a different one every time you click.

Here is a sample...

Not a very itty-bitty link, but I am sure that if I read the instructions it will show me how to make it smaller.
However --- not now. Maybe later?

https://itty.bitty.site/#/?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

It is done with a thing called itty.bitty.site you can make your own little site, give it a try.

Monday, May 21, 2018

They Found ‘thousands and thousands’ Of Nuggets

The guy who started the Pilbara gold rush found 'thousands and thousands' of nuggets - Stockhead:

Campbell says he and wife Zoe stumbled across Purdy’s Reward and Comet Well while chasing wild cattle.
“We were flying over the area doing a headcount for an upcoming muster and we’d seen where someone had been camping pretty well out in the middle of nowhere.
“I said ‘it looks to me as if they’d been prospecting or they’re hiding from the police’ because it was a bit suss where they were.
“I got some hired help and went out there and started looking. I think it was at Purdy’s where the guy was camped. We did our own exploration work and found that it soon stretched over about 8km.”
Thousands and thousands of nuggets
Mr Campbell said he and his crew found “thousands and thousands” of gold nuggets.
“If you turned on a metal detector you weren’t walking anywhere because there was too much gold,” he said.
“So when I found it I spent a lot of time on a four-wheel motorbike and walking and I just started to map it basically – the length and the width.
“We found nuggets up to 10 ounces size-wise, but we found thousands and thousands of 2-gram and 1.5-gram nuggets.
Is the Pilbara gold rush real? “100 per cent,” Mr Campbell says.
“Absolutely undeniably Comet Well will be something big and I’ll tell you why — and this is from a non-geologist’s point of view.
“If I can walk 8km and dig a hole in the ground and find gold, there’s 8km of gold. If I can dig 4m down and find gold, there’s 4m of gold. That’s the way I do it, my mathematics is pretty simple.”
Back to cattle
“My wife and I put a lot of our money into cattle and property. We’re looking to buy a cattle station,” Mr Campbell said.
“I’ve never had gold fever. I just don’t see the romance in gold. I see money in cattle and agriculture.”
Mr Campbell is no longer prospecting and is running the engineering department for the Town of Port Hedland to spend more time with his wife and six boys.

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

A Different Kind of Gold Mining



"RENO — A study released Jan. 4 shows that $22 billion of gold (500 metric tonnes or 16 million troy ounces) was thrown away worldwide in electronics’ waste in 2016, according to Reno-based Itronics Inc.,  a creative green technology company that extracts usable metals from e-scrap.
"Study: $22 billion in gold was tossed as e-waste in 2016 | nnbw.com:




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