second day at work, mine and mill tour

so, today was my second day at work. it went pretty well. it feels really good to actually be at a large scale operations again. the pit is huge, and expanding more, new pits are coming online, its all really great and interesting work. and everyone i met so far has been really nice. so anyways, today we got the pit tour, so here are some of my favorite pictures. having some issues uploading all my pictures, apparently some did not make it thru to…

Big Changes, my first day at my new job

so, yesterday was my first day at my new job, with quadra mining. what did i do on this first day? i woke up at 3:45am for a 5:45am flight to salt lake city, followed by a 3h drive to ely, nevada! driving out of salt lake the salt flats driving up to the mine site old abandoned head frame for underground mine so overall, a pretty exciting first day. we did just a lot of introductions yesterday, to meet everyone. today were going to…

Just me and the hoe

So, i was at brule mine for the week. flew up mon morning and just got back last night. it was a pretty good week, but busy. i didnt really get to do what i planned on getting done while i was there, because this project came up where we are trying to build a new sediment pond, and i had to go survey some areas for it. but more on that in a minute. first, after the first day there, went to bed, woke…