Thread: Employment Opportunities

I like the man made sand storm

Used to have up to 28 planes a day landing...and in 1 day we had 5 x C17s. One of the busiest dirtstrips in the world. I can only imagine it has become busier since I left last year with the arrival of another US unit supported by 9 helos.

Dusty, yes. It was my job to put back what got blown away...a bit like trying to hold the tide back with a bucket.

How the dust do not affect the engines of the planes it is a mistery to me!
I guess that the air filter on the ground vehicles will be change weekly.

Originally Posted by Chucaro

How the dust do not affect the engines of the planes it is a mistery to me!
I guess that the air filter on the ground vehicles will be change weekly.

Chucaro, the whole of the ISAF/NATO equipment inventory is deteriorating at a rate they would never have expected. It will cause some future budgetary re-thinks.

Originally Posted by BBC

The film 'Blood Diamond' was enacted in Mozambique, a place that I have much direct interest in. Yes, all in all, the people in Ghana live with poverty but, they are well fed and happy people.

Mining business? What type of mining?

Boring stuff like coal and iron ore.

I have not seen 'hand' mining in South Africa like your pictures show but in Indian I have seen pictures of 'operators' running iron ore mines where the mining is done with hand pick, shovel and bucket.

It might be OK to do this with something like gold worth ~900US$/oz but iron ore is worth about 80US$/tonne. Brings new meaning to the term "scratching in the dirt" and shows what you can do with an unlimited labour supply and workers desperate to earn anything.

Originally Posted by BBC

Yes. They crush it down and use leaching (the thought of what chemicals and how they are employed is a little chilling) and/or panning to seperate the gold. You can see the sluice shutes they use there in one of my photos...not much different to what would have been done in the 1850s.

Sodium Cyanide is usually used...

Not exactly healthy or environmentally friendly - especially if you are doing it by hand...

The customer I work to does two things...

1. Mines gold; and
2. Shreds tyres.

This is fairly typical of what and why we are changing most days. In Australia they strive to get to 10,000hrs. These....lucky if they get past 3,000 and, plenty of rock cut failures before then. Aggressive pit floors and the fact that there is now no limit on the supply of tyres, gives them a bit of a 'laissez faire' attitude..a pretty expensive one when the tyres cost as much as they do.



This photo is just to demonstrate that the new Project Manager does get out from behind his desk and goes close to getting some dirt on himself.

Your hands are clean ..........and no globes