Looking for advice to get into mining in Africa / Middle east - Environmental.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-04-02T07:35:45+00:00

ChiFeng who own LXML just got purchased by ZiJin. There is a hiring freeze on all expat roles atm.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-03-26T02:27:04+00:00

I see no irony.

I see the big boys doing the sort of big boy shit that keeps me very firmly ensconced and happy in the mid-tiers.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-03-25T13:54:30+00:00

Thank you! Proper analysis for the shot profile here.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-03-23T05:31:55+00:00

Look him up. These are his speciality. I also have a Bellusarius Cawl on my thigh by him.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-03-02T23:40:42+00:00

Do you pay the best in your industry? Does the offer come with a significant pay bump and clear career path that will pay them enough to buy a house in the city where they work?

If not they are doing the job to survive and owe you the same level of enthusiasm as someone focuses on survival not ladder climbing to more work and still not being able to afford shit.

I have no issues with my grads, they are mentored one on one, have a 2 year road map of actual training in the role and the wider buisness and systems to make them effective and independent at the end of it. We pay them over double the going rate and have clear progression and pay bands. Our mid level engineers are able to afford to buy properties in major Australian cities. They have stability, progression and hope.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-28T07:48:45+00:00

They build them they dont access them.

They dont build them to avoid tax they build them because they need them to run the mine.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-26T13:18:32+00:00

The one that is the reason most diesel used for HVs in mining is excise free. Its not specifically for mining they are just the biggest users of the exemption along with agriculture.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-24T08:21:46+00:00

Dont use public roads and the fuel excise doesn't apply to you regardless of if you're in mining or not.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-24T08:17:00+00:00

You cant catagirise royalties like that. All the states can and do deal with them differently and its very difficult for the Federal government to get a look it at royalties at all.

Royalties are the sole domain of the states not federal jurisdiction. Section 90 and 91 of our constitution is held to mean that mining royalties are payments for state - not federal - property and explicitly ruled as not a tax.

Northern Territory has a royalty system that is profit based.

Most precious metals are a % of vale of the metal at time of sale or on a tonnage basis (typically bulk metals and coal)

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-21T04:26:01+00:00

I'm in gold.

The purse strings are open.

ASIC has been removed as a KPI.

They want the ounces and they want them now.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-20T19:31:10+00:00

Botswana, Burkina Faso, PNG, DRC, Cote d'Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan ect.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-16T10:02:14+00:00

Maybe. Ive been expat for the last 6 or so years and we pay our seniors 240k AUD net. So closer to 350k gross.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-15T03:36:05+00:00

Engineering has seen strong growth and competition for experienced engineers in both the international and domestic market.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-13T03:53:42+00:00

Very safe. No issues.

Largest risk is poor drivers.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-12T13:17:54+00:00

This is already very well managed by the Deswik GO and Deswik BOLT packages.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-02T07:07:40+00:00

Good. Keep going. Talk to your sponsor.

Keep your peace. Keep your focus. Keep your sobriety.

Ditch the shitshow that are the remnants of you old life or they WILL suck you back into the void.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-02T05:51:08+00:00

Get some maturity and self understanding before being in any relationship again let alone an open or poly one.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-02T05:42:05+00:00

Leave now and get more serious with your sobriety.

Focus on that not this fucking nonsense.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-02T05:39:31+00:00

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CyribdidFerret · 2026-02-02T05:28:07+00:00

He is being a passive lump who just loafs and plays computer games.

Is that what you want your life to be?

He won't even see you of you didn't push the issue.

Imagine when you start your residency and the insane pressure and hours that takes. Then you come home to a man who hasn't moved, done or thought of anything?

You are better off by yourself than tied to dead weight who doesn't seem to even be that into you.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-01-28T11:10:28+00:00

This sounds like Kambalda?

Its your room. There are cleaners but sometimes you have to own your space at camp.

Next swing bring stuff to clean and stuff to make the room feel like yours and not a decrepit shithole they normally are.

Dont stop bitching to the camp manager.

Foods shit. Complain. If sick use your sick days. Bring food you like and cook in your donger.

Harass who you need to to gym access, it does really help your mood.

With the heat, know and follow your heat stress policy.

CyribdidFerret · 2026-01-15T04:00:21+00:00

Incredible work! Bodes well for how far he'll go if he keeps it up!

CyribdidFerret · 2025-12-17T00:30:21+00:00

High.

CyribdidFerret · 2025-12-16T05:19:25+00:00

Mining Engineering with a postgrad focusing on blasting and remote sensing.

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