posted on
Nov 13, 2011 10:59PM
I've seen guys come out of head frames in body bags and no, it wasn't in china, it was in Ontario. Arguably the safest mining jurisdiction in Canada. It might sound like a tired and cliche line from a guy in an office making day trades and betting shares, but safety and mining should never be taken for granted. Anything can happen, a bad fall of rock, a crippling fire, I invested in some gold mining company in Quebec called metanor a while back. Three guys died while rehabbing a shaft, stock tanked when the news came out.
To me someone who doesn't understand the importance of safety is green when it comes to mining, I don't care how many shares you trade, what do you think would happen to a nice multi million ounce deposit if the mill burns to the ground? Safety is not just people, it's equipment and property too.