Why a Website about Mining Engineering?

I come from a family of professionals and always leave family reunions feeling like the world is a very unfair place. They all get special social status for being in their professions and make tons of money. Yet they are all idiots and don’t contribute very much of anything to the public weal. I, as a mining engineer, am the quintessence of public virtue and altruism; contributing much and asking for little in return. Amazing really.

So this, then, is to set the record straight and shake my fist at a world which prizes “You Ain’t Nuthin’ But a Hound Dog”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “I’m Henery the Eighth I Am” and “Beat It” above the work taken to provide the materials which transported these nitwits around the world. It is my way of saying, “No... the value of sweating it out in a jungle, freezing in the Arctic or gasping for air in the Andes has value beyond that of some young athlete who brags about scoring more off the court (or green) than on. And as I say to my greenie friends who decry all the work I do in the resource extraction industry and call me out for the heinous crime of global warming, “When you come to protest at my mine/quarry/refinery will I expect you to arrive by rowboat or on foot?”

So you can see that I am a little testy and am motivated to speak, that the world may know…

“Mining engineering is the Crown Prince of the Professions. Recognize this and pay me more!”

Ok fine… just recognize this. But all I have said above is true and I hope to demonstrate this on my little website. You will learn what mining engineering is, what mining engineers do (when they aren’t writing websites to whine about life), why geologists are always the bad guys, and some history and biographies of important mining engineers.

I could, of course, be wrong about all this but hey! It’s my website and I’ll whine if I want to.