We’re 15 Years Old!

Ladies and gents! Today’s topic is going to be unexpected and a little out of the ordinary… I know this won’t be of much interest to all my dear readers, but for some of you, it might bring on a wave of nostalgia – and maybe even a tear to a wrinkled (or, on the […]

Hi folks! Krasnoyarsk Krai industrial-site tour series of posts: done. Coming up – my Altai summer vacation series of posts… But in-between – here’s a long post that’s kept being put on the back-burner for this (perhaps its length) or that (I’m always so busy?!) reason, the title to which is introductorily self-explanatory. First – […]

Elephant in the room alert!… Did you notice how at the Nazarovsky open-pit mine we saw zero… coal? Like, we visited this massive coal-mining operation, but didn’t see a single chunk of the black stuff?! What?! Here’s the deal. The insanely massive mechanism that moves sandy rock from one spot to another was the main […]

Still back in July, still back in Krasnoyarsk Krai, next up on our tour of our dear heavy-industrial customers’ operations (after the Vostochny Gold Mine, the Boguchany Aluminum Smelting Plant, and the Boguchany Dam) – another two industrial giants – the Nazárovsky and Beryózovsky coal mines, which both belong to Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK). […]

In yesterday’s post, I told you all about the operations at the Boguchany Aluminum Plant and its herculean appetite for electricity. I mentioned hydroelectric power in passing yesterday too – and not without good reason: for it’s this that satisfies this appetite at the aluminum plant. So off we popped, next door, to the Boguchany […]

Ok – you’ve had the gold post. Now for a post about another metal. But first – let me back up on the gold topic before segueing to today’s metal… Two questions… 1. How much gold has humanity extracted in all of history? 2. How much gold‘s left in the Earth’s crust? I’ll answer :)… […]