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The State of Mining in India

https://www.streetwisereports.com/article/2018/05/17/the-state-of-mining-in-india.html

Thanks for the added info. Interesting.

Good luck with your exploration RNO. Maybe you’ll find the next “Homestake Mines!” 🙂

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Economy here and in Guatemala has slowed considerably. If tourism falls off, this place will fall flat! All the resorts have been notified of the upcoming sales tax audits. The money grab by sleazy little elected officials never ends. Carpio and I are going into the Pine Ridge area to look for a little gold. Irish (Jack Keane) always planned to go there but never made it.

Maya, keep those volcanoes in Hawaii! Those Californians let the earthquakes move east.

I guess the only surprise today is that pm’s aren’t getting hit harder because of the USD strength

Nevertheless, we’ve seen this movie before – SM comes back, pm’s stay down

https://ceo.ca/@newswire/garibaldi-gears-up-for-drilling-at-nickel-mountain

We indeed are not even pygmies in comparison to mother nature.

1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year and Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death)[1] because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F).[2] This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.[3]

Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies (the largest eruption in at least 1,300 years after the extreme weather events of 535–536), perhaps exacerbated by the 1814 eruption of Mayon in the Philippines. The Earth had already been in a centuries-long period of global cooling that started in the 14th century. Known today as the Little Ice Age, it had already caused considerable agricultural distress in Europe. The Little Ice Age’s existing cooling was exacerbated by the eruption of Tambora, which occurred near the end of the Little Ice Age.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

My friend a retired pilot, 747 cargo. Worked for Fed Ex, and Evergreen Airlines. His plane was the one on TV bringing back soldiers killed in action from Afghanistan I think it was. He has been in every air port in the world. He told me he spent half his life in the sky. With four jet engines spewing tons of diesel exhaust fumes straight into the atmosphere.

I asked him, being he’s looking down on the earth all the time, his view perspective about mans effect on the climate. His opinion? His experience? Volcanoes are the biggest threat. Remember Mt St Helens? It supposedly caused sunlight and heat to be blocked around the world making the earths temperature fall for a little while.

Only political uncertainty and tensions are supporting the gold price.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/global-precious/precious-gold-flat-after-hitting-2018-low-as-dollar-treasuries-firm-idUKL5N1SO4OJ

Desert Gold
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/640785/

I have studied and lived with this volcano for over 40 years.  I was here with TV crews when the eruption phase began in 1983.  This current episode is the first major change in the eruption since then.  With help from the USGS, I have removed a lot of the ‘geological uncertainty’ factors.  This volcano is well studied and the plumbing and it’s behavior are fairly well known… as are the risks.  We (the local residents) know the risks and live with them without all the excitement and drama that an outsider tends to emphasize.  The native Hawaiians always said “These are Pele’s (the volcano goddess) lands, and she can come and take them back at any time.”  Everyone who lives here acknowledges that as a fact of life here.

Those who build homes atop Pele’s house get what they ask for… a visit from Pele.

I do appreciate the kind words from one as experienced and knowledgeable as you.  Thank you.

This morning, predawn, the summit crater belched up a plume of ash to 30,000 ft.  The fissure eruptions continue, and the lava now erupting is thinner and more mobile, so I suspect that the newer lava that has drained from the summit area is now appearing at the fissures in the east rift zone.  This could generate a much larger and more mobile lava flow downslope.  At present the largest flow is heading south… away from me.  But I am not completely safe, either.  I learned that my subdivision was built on the lava flow of 1840 that came from the same area of the rift zone that is now erupting.  This explains the beautiful ropy lava domes I have exposed in my back yard.  I hope Pele lets me keep them.

Red sky glow again tonight, distant artillery booms, and ground shudders from the vents.  But I sleep just fine.  🙂

geological uncertainty has impressed me.  It is uncertain if I would be as cool under similar circumstances.  I have always respected something a geologist said on a TV documentary (do not recall for sure now, but it might have been on a documentary series titled ‘Angry Earth’).  The geologist said something like  ‘We live at various locations on this planet only by geological permission.  And that permission can be revoked at any time’ .  I recall you have mentioned that traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples in your part of the globe also incorporates this concept into daily life and their view of the natural world.   Best wishes.

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