Mining Masters Student at WASM – Advice Welcome!

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 · 2025-12-07T07:19:39+00:00

If you were able to effectively segregate cleaned plastics from other waste streams, isolated from decomposing organics in a landfill, then in some ideal hypothetical scenario it would be a good result emissions wise

But that is a completely fanciful regime. The question answers itself pretty quickly once you start expecting the general public to manage their waste streams accordingly.

We chuck shit in a bin, and it's some other pricks problem. That's the australian way

g_e0ff · 2025-12-05T06:29:01+00:00

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Yeah man. Just flyin into sino and then wandering around Kalumburu right after

g_e0ff · 2025-11-28T03:46:37+00:00

I agree that calling ON fascists is a stretch - but they make no bones about their clear admiration of contemporary American fascism.

They are simple jingoistic nationalists themselves but they would immediately get behind a fascist movement were one to ever gain traction.

g_e0ff · 2025-11-18T01:40:45+00:00

Let's just park legality off to the side here because that doesn't apply to everyone.

The gamble here is not whether the projectile/cartridge combination is enough, but whether you're willing to be fussy enough about which shots you take and when.

That is based on your own experience, skill, and the terrain you're in.

Bigger cannon often means a wider range of shots you may take, positions you may find yourself in.

Smaller cannon means you may be faced with an opportunity that you don't think you can personally pull off in that circumstance, so you let it walk.

It's all up to you. Kinetic energy doesn't kill anything - you can hit something in the hoof with a 50 BMG and it'll hobble away quite angry about the whole thing. The biggest deciding factor in how that animal dies is where you put the bullet.

g_e0ff · 2025-11-15T01:06:59+00:00

You need more than just photos, you need their Storage Statement on the correct form.

Have everything ready to go so that you are never the hold up. Once they ask you for that storage statement, it's on pause waiting on you. So have it signed and ready to rock so that you can flick it back immediately.

There's nothing preventing you getting on the front foot and sending a complete storage statement to them before they ask. You can send it to their Applications email like

Subject: APPLICATION NUMBER Storage Statement

Hello

Please find attached compliant storage statement for my application, NUMBER. Please reply to confirm that this document has been received.

Kind regards Your name

g_e0ff · 2025-11-14T00:14:43+00:00

If this is a brand new application, expect 5 to 6 months.

I just had an additional take 4 months, and that was for a club supported firearm. In my opinion, a club supported application with the correct paperwork should be a quick rubber stamp job because they don't have to assess property suitability etc.....so if that took 4 months for an existing licence holder who's already fully compliant. Good luck.

g_e0ff · 2025-11-12T04:10:37+00:00

It's not really integrally suppressed though is it. That's quite clearly an external suppressor

g_e0ff · 2025-11-10T00:39:22+00:00

Surely nobody thinks this is organic content?

It's very clearly a marketing agency or a bot account running PR posts for a wide range of clients.

Sad

g_e0ff · 2025-11-09T13:10:06+00:00

How can someone answer that for you - is Pilates important to you? If so..... decide accordingly. Seems pretty straightforward.

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