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The Olympic Dam Story
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January 1, 2012
This was a really hard book to get a hold of (as in I think I waited about 8 months for it to ship from OZ), but it was well worth the wait. Written very accessibly, the story of the discovery of Olympic Dam was an easy and enjoyable read.
After a few chapters I was taken aback that they had really discovered the world's biggest mineral deposit on some psuedo-science...there was a very sketchy model driving the exploration as well as a lineament study that sounded a little more like water-witchery. A few chapters later, Upton addressed that I wasn't the only one who was surprised by the science employed to find this monster. But overall, he played the left-field science pretty lightly, and concentrated on Western Mining being an innovative company....which they were...but innovative and lucky. Actually this is exactly the type of story I was looking for. I hate when companies try to cover up their true discovery stories, just to make them look more professional. So hats off to WMC for coming out and telling the truth, even though in many people's estimations, it might make them look a little like blundering geologists, albeit, freaking lucky blundering geologists, with a lot of vision, creativity, drive, and passion.
After a few chapters I was taken aback that they had really discovered the world's biggest mineral deposit on some psuedo-science...there was a very sketchy model driving the exploration as well as a lineament study that sounded a little more like water-witchery. A few chapters later, Upton addressed that I wasn't the only one who was surprised by the science employed to find this monster. But overall, he played the left-field science pretty lightly, and concentrated on Western Mining being an innovative company....which they were...but innovative and lucky. Actually this is exactly the type of story I was looking for. I hate when companies try to cover up their true discovery stories, just to make them look more professional. So hats off to WMC for coming out and telling the truth, even though in many people's estimations, it might make them look a little like blundering geologists, albeit, freaking lucky blundering geologists, with a lot of vision, creativity, drive, and passion.
January 9, 2014
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