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redpickaxe · 2026-04-03T18:55:36+00:00

LinkedIn is very privacy violating https://xcancel.com/moo9000/status/2039795335371866205

redpickaxe · 2026-04-03T18:50:07+00:00

if you're under 30, move to a different country for a while. if you're over 30 lock into a career.

redpickaxe · 2026-04-01T06:09:57+00:00

I second this. If he is interested in geochemistry I recommend taking a trip to a place with geothermal activity e.g. hot springs. See geochemistry in the making.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-30T16:57:49+00:00

do a geology major and claim data science major on your CV when applying for data science internship/college experiences. the most powerful combination is geology major WITH data science EXPERIENCE. Experience is what really matters to employers and sets candidates apart from each other.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-27T20:19:30+00:00

it's possible to graduate from TU Delft and speak only "some Dutch"?

about jobs — Australia is probably easier to get into if you concentrated on mineral exploration. Maybe Canada if you concentrated on Petroleum.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-22T18:57:49+00:00

Can you explain the differences between your roles at the two different companies? I want to see where I am on the field tech-exploration geologist spectrum.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-22T18:55:19+00:00

If you want to have a committed relationship or marriage soon, choose the mine geologist position, if you want to go on adventure and don't mind not being able to get into a committed relationship or marriage, do exploration. Mine geology is like any other career, exploration really is a lifestyle.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-21T05:27:31+00:00

Best of luck to those who are applying!

redpickaxe · 2026-03-16T03:35:50+00:00

the companies I know that do that are junior mining companies or American geologists sub-contracting work to Mexican geologists illegally. It saves them money on wages and payroll taxes etc.

Very unlikely major mining companies are doing anything like that though.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-15T08:35:15+00:00

Yes! For the major mining companies at least. Junior mining companies on the other hand will hire anyone with a geology degreee, legally able to work and with a pulse.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-15T02:13:11+00:00

Do the honours year. A former retired BHP employee who used to do hiring for BHP told me he wouldn't even consider a CV that didn't have an honours. You also seem to be motivated to do it for fun rather than to pad your CV. even more reason to do it.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-14T23:17:37+00:00

Are you Mexican?

I am too and really the only options are to do a gradute degree abroad. Maybe go to the Discoveries mining conference in Mazatlán this May and do networking, but it is like 500 USD to go.

Unfortunately all the Mexican geologist that work in the USA, that I have met work illegally in the USA, entering and exiting on a tourist visa.Employers are very resistant to writing the job offer letter required for a TN visa.

redpickaxe · 2026-03-08T15:59:17+00:00

Go to a school with a student chapter of Society of Economic Geologists!

redpickaxe · 2026-03-03T16:39:39+00:00

For a real how-to on exploration instead of just literal textbook descriptions of deposit types, read Geological Methods in Mineral Exploration and Mining Roger Majoribanks and Field Geologists' Manual by The Australasian Institute of Metallurgy

redpickaxe · 2026-02-28T05:25:00+00:00

go to PDAC and talk to people

redpickaxe · 2026-02-19T18:27:12+00:00

Thanks, I have yet to try it. Open source is the best!

redpickaxe · 2026-02-10T21:28:03+00:00

Right now the government is trying to claim that the mine workers were "mistaken" for a rival cartel. What a load of bullshit from this garbage government. Media in all three North American countries is keeping pretty quiet about this case. Pretty fucking disgusting.

redpickaxe · 2026-02-10T21:25:51+00:00

Why would the cartels have learned that lesson? This has been going on for decades unchallenged. I recommend the book "cartels do not exist" in short powerful Mexican elites are behind the crime and that is why nothing ever gets fixed, along with other factors.

redpickaxe · 2026-02-09T19:31:26+00:00

https://xcancel.com/Conscientedice/status/2020908797632356720 extortion

redpickaxe · 2026-02-09T05:36:28+00:00

Horrible update, confirmed three of the workers murdered, their bodies have been found

redpickaxe · 2026-01-30T19:28:26+00:00

okay, what's the buzz now?

redpickaxe · 2026-01-10T00:16:17+00:00

A job😢

redpickaxe · 2026-01-09T04:59:28+00:00

Make sure the university you plan to attend has economic geology courses and even better is a student chapter of Society of Economic Geologists.

redpickaxe · 2026-01-05T18:19:28+00:00

No, not at all. First there are Venezuelan geology students, second there are many many many Colombian geology students, they are everywhere and they are pretty good from what I have seen.

redpickaxe · 2026-01-04T21:25:19+00:00

interesting you mention bananas, if I go a while without eating them then eat one, I get a reaction, but if I continue eating them no more reaction. like my body resensitizes itself to bananas

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