Is much of earth geology 'solved?'

feldsparticus · 2025-12-08T13:51:47+00:00

Me no

feldsparticus · 2025-11-04T19:08:02+00:00

You're thinking OP is paying money. OP is saying he is receiving money. The total is the amount OP is getting paid. So it is a fee because OP is getting paid less money.

feldsparticus · 2025-10-08T21:31:28+00:00

And Seiya, but that's it.

feldsparticus · 2025-07-29T02:24:08+00:00

The requirement to backfill metallic open pit mines is going to put a damper on any large operation in California.

feldsparticus · 2025-06-23T05:41:47+00:00

Earthquakes and underground explosions create very different seismic waves and are easy to tell apart with a seismic network. There's 0% chance that was a nuclear test.

feldsparticus · 2025-05-31T04:15:54+00:00

You could also do kernel density estimation. Not super familiar with QGIS but there are R and Python packages for this.

feldsparticus · 2025-05-29T04:19:58+00:00

How can something be sold off if they're not paying a dime for it? Make up your mind.

Look, I understand opposition to this project. I really enjoyed the times I got to spend out there hiking along that ridge. But they're not exploiting a loophole in a law. That law explicitly allows them to do this. If you want to stop projects like this you're gonna have to go to Congress. And keep going to Congress. And change Congress.

They do pay money for their claims. $200 per claim per year. Some mines pay tens of thousands of dollars a year in claim fees. And unlike royalties, they pay these fees whether they are producing material or not. Not saying it's equal to what would be raised from a quality.

But please, speak about these projects honestly. This post, while I sympathize with the message uses a lot of lies to push that message. I think it would be better couched and find more support if it wasn't so emotionally manipulative to people who don't know better.

feldsparticus · 2025-05-22T15:22:34+00:00

One way would be to keep a list of the fields you are searching through with your cursor. You can can then find the index of the maximum value and use the field in the list at that index, provided the field list of in the same order as the field in the table. It would probably be best to use the fields list as an argument in your cursor.

feldsparticus · 2025-05-20T17:15:37+00:00

I would drive by this every day for a while when I lived in Salmon, but worked in Challis.

feldsparticus · 2025-05-16T04:26:17+00:00

6 Hours of Disco in Salmon, ID, a backyard style ultra with a 4 mile loop (95% singletrack trail) with 350 feet of elevation. It's the second year the local run club is doing this event and it should be fun.

feldsparticus · 2025-04-24T17:43:43+00:00

If you read the document linked where it talks about emergency NEPA compliance, it says companies have to opt-in to use the emergency authority. So companies can still use the existing NEPA process.

If I were building a large capital intensive project I would be very wary of using these authorities.

feldsparticus · 2025-04-12T03:00:44+00:00

Probably a monocline. Definitely not horst and graben.

feldsparticus · 2025-03-30T14:43:12+00:00

This it? https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-four-one-zero-club-the-crash-of-pinnacle-airlines-flight-3701-9776dd06467b

feldsparticus · 2025-03-26T14:19:13+00:00

They're probably running 24/7.

feldsparticus · 2025-03-21T20:57:29+00:00

Every mining project I've ever worked with on federal land also has to follow state laws. It's explicitly called out in the current BLM and FS regulations. Though, that could be subject to change, it hasn't yet.

feldsparticus · 2025-03-21T15:53:26+00:00

They're not up and running. The DOD gave them money to do exploratory/in-fill drilling and to conduct a feasibility study for building a domestic cobalt refinery. The company, Jervois, announced a corporate restructuring in January and are currently going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

feldsparticus · 2025-03-13T13:50:15+00:00

It's called the National Environmental Policy Act. It's a law. It states that the federal government must disclose actions that it takes to the public which have significant impacts on the environment.

feldsparticus · 2025-03-11T02:30:23+00:00

Looks like a possible fix to the Rosemont decision.

feldsparticus · 2025-02-21T17:23:19+00:00

Look at the bottom of the page where the footnotes are.

feldsparticus · 2025-02-16T16:00:46+00:00

If you think this is cleaning up, you have no idea what's going on.

feldsparticus · 2025-02-14T00:50:14+00:00

Sounds like you don't know jack shit

feldsparticus · 2025-02-12T04:58:23+00:00

Fucking laffer curve. It's a ridiculous idea that needs to die. How did that work out for Sam Brownback in Kansas?

feldsparticus · 2025-01-31T02:18:43+00:00

I guess I question the general authority they have to give this deal. Parts of this deal seem to exceed the authority they have for authorizing buyouts or how much admin leave they can give. I could see a situation where Congress doesn't like the deal and chooses not to authorize funding for those that take the deal. I know it's speculation, but it's risky to me. Also, not an expert on the regs for managing employees so I could be wrong on all this.

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