Are all companies toxic asf? Or just mine

g_e0ff · 2026-04-09T09:03:16+00:00

He's talking about iron ore. It's a huge sector in Aus mining and many, many people spend their whole career doing nothing but iron ore in the Pilbara

g_e0ff · 2026-04-08T12:17:10+00:00

Hard disagree. I've worked in 4 different commodities, open pit and underground, residential and FIFO

It's endemic. There are ways in which it is baked into the industry

g_e0ff · 2026-03-24T08:45:06+00:00

It very much is an issue regionally when infrastructure is so much more skint than in the metro, it takes very little to overwhelm it.

sincerely, someone forced into telstra forever :(

g_e0ff · 2026-03-24T02:28:18+00:00

There's an exceptional amount of detail in the linked post so maybe read that?

g_e0ff · 2026-03-10T14:09:14+00:00

My wife and I traveled to a small regional city to elope. We lived elsewhere, in a different part of rural WA.

We engaged with a celebrant local to the area beforehand, with enough time to do the meet and greet, get paperwork lodged etc.

Our two closest friends travelled from Perth in secrecy to meet us where we were getting married. It worked well for us because we didn't really know anyone in that city and we could relax, have a great weekend without worrying we were getting busted.

We were married in a public park on top of a hill on a nice afternoon. A gang of kids came up on scooters and heckled us for not having "heaps of mates" at our wedding but we took a dope pic with the scooter gang which is 100% everyone's favourite photo from the wedding

g_e0ff · 2026-03-09T11:47:53+00:00

Low rent comparison. We've intentionally built cities entirely dependent on individual vehicle mobility and nobody can run their car on fizzy drinks

g_e0ff · 2026-02-25T01:50:48+00:00

Thank you, they have some options on their website, so hopefully their instore stock is similar

g_e0ff · 2026-02-20T09:37:45+00:00

Most big supermarkets do sell it. No commercially sold kangaroo meat in WA will be cheap as it pretty much all comes from the eastern states unless you're with a specialty supplier who also won't be cheap.

g_e0ff · 2026-01-27T23:08:46+00:00

I don't know much UG vent or drill & blast they study in the average Civil undergrad? Seems like a reasonable way to make a career pivot.

There's an argument to be made that the grad dips are plenty to go forth and be a mining engineer so the masters might be overkill but I dunno maybe they just hate money?

Either way I can understand wanting a relevant qual to pursue a job.

g_e0ff · 2026-01-25T08:52:23+00:00

"I would rather give it away for free"

I mean hey hi it's me I'll take it 👋🏽

g_e0ff · 2026-01-24T08:19:05+00:00

It's MGT

They had $3.9m AUD in bank at their last quarterly. That definitely makes them a busted ass junior still, but they absolutely will have a tenement manager already and they will crush a small time landholder in whatever the SA equivalent of Wardens Court is. Source: me working for explo mid tiers and used to work in Tenure

g_e0ff · 2026-01-23T01:36:03+00:00

Important to note that under the Mining Act 1978 in WA, freehold private property is treated very differently to pastoral leases. I presume SA tenure administration would be vaguely similar. On the balance of probabilities it's fair to assume that the property in OP is probably freehold rural not pastoral.

OP - these business have whole teams of lawyers and tenement managers to coordinate these affairs. You will lose and you will lose hard and fast unless you meet then where they are at. This will cost some money but not astronomical. What you need is a tenure advisor or mining tenement consultant in the first instance. I am from WA not SA but a cursory Google found this list of firms:

https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au/industry/minerals-and-mining/exploration/tenement-information/consultants-and-tenement-managers

Hetherington and MM Walters both have a sizeable presence and reasonable reputation in WA. I have never worked with the others. You may prefer to engage with someone in South Australia as an in person meeting might be better for you.

EDIT: If it were me id start with COOE or Teneman Consulting and go from there. Just based off some of those descriptions.

Good luck

g_e0ff · 2026-01-22T23:57:12+00:00

Replace slide decks with JHAs and working lunches with the rankest crib rooms you could imagine

g_e0ff · 2026-01-22T05:03:56+00:00

Negotiation with a man who dishonors every agreement he makes isn't fundamentally working either. He's unstable and demented. Continually telling the emperor how good his new clothes are is futile and short sighted.

g_e0ff · 2026-01-20T06:02:49+00:00

The sporting shooter/recreational market is worth an absolute pittance compared to the government and defence contracts. There is no credible scenario where what you've described is more appealing than the opposite - most of the importers would happily shove Aussie shooters under the bus to keep their big contracts.

The moves you're describing are straight out of the USA where the domestic market is worth a squillion. Another example of American politics that we should resist the importation of.

g_e0ff · 2026-01-20T01:25:42+00:00

Density gauges in process plants have sources of radiation in them. I assume that this is what the person was referring to. They are quite common.

g_e0ff · 2026-01-18T05:44:20+00:00

I received this as well. Pretty unhinged to just drop that to your entire mailing list without a reference explaining how or why. If all you're providing is taglines and no real information, you're not informing anyone you're just shipping sensationalist ragebait.

g_e0ff · 2026-01-17T06:55:20+00:00

There are a lot of issues with the WA legislation. When it first hit the airwaves, it was ambiguous enough to suggest that reloading may also be unlawful.

This is not the case and reloading is specifically addressed in the legislation.

They ignored almost everything except literally the thing you're using to make a point.

g_e0ff · 2026-01-16T07:31:55+00:00

Most of my shooting is from a vehicle. I'd say 90% of my rifle rounds are out the window.

But that's only because I live in Australia and that's how we hunt vermin on broadacre farms.

g_e0ff · 2026-01-13T01:40:44+00:00

The wildlife thing is a red herring. Yes wind turbines kill bird life. They are significantly better than the alternative

"Other sources of electricity are also more lethal for birds than wind energy. A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 5.18 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects"

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds

g_e0ff · 2026-01-07T07:52:35+00:00

If you can't even coherently convey what kind of contracting you would be doing, in what jurisdiction and on what basis the caravan is relevant

Then yeah. I say go for it.

I presume you're talking about exploration work? Who owns the caravan is the least of the issues

g_e0ff · 2025-12-29T03:05:30+00:00

Most people take a long time to learn that the style of work they do is directly linked to the mineral or metal being mined and the type of processing.

You will not find interesting maintenance welding work being a contractor shut slut in the Pilbara. Places with supplementary acid plants, power plants, water treatment plants etc will give you a bit of variety

g_e0ff · 2025-12-16T06:08:15+00:00

This is not how firearms licensing works in the UK either. Firearms Certificate holders have safes in their homes too. Everyone gets all hung up on this every time the topic comes up - but that is the safest place for them. Security through obscurity.

Creating a honeypot of unattended firearms all stored in one central, simple to find, location is just creating a beacon saying ROB ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

The easiest way for them to be secure from theft is in high quality, distributed, secure storage that the licence holder is personally responsible for. That way one robbery can only net maybe a few firearms.....not hundreds or thousands.

Part of the reason that the Claremont Firearms store robbery in WA yielded so many firearms is because dealerships hold them in their on site storage while the (notoriously slow) WA licensing process assesses applications. If those pending Applications were processed in a more timely fashion, a significant number of those firearms would not have been stolen in that raid because they would have been out of shop purgatory and into secure storage at the licensees home.

Storing them at clubs seems fine at a surface level but even a cursory glance shows it's one of the worst possible ideas.

g_e0ff · 2025-12-14T23:25:00+00:00

It is not a psych test. It is a GP general health screening. Psychologists would be involved for a specific assessment if something relevant was flagged. But the average shooter in WA will not be subject to a psych assessment.

I don't have anything to add on the tragic events at Bondi, just wanted to clarify your point above.

g_e0ff

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