I recently spent some time at a rather remote gold/silver project, working on some of our equipment and providing my wisdom as I often do, whether requested or not. While there, the staff were called to a conference call. Upon their return they were all shaking their heads as they

Well, it’s storytelling time again, and I got a whopper for you.  An intricate tale of poverty, struggles to make good, successes and plunges into poverty again.  Settle down in your stuffed chair…or more likely skooch your desk chair a little closer to the monitor…. and read on. What are

A couple of years ago, on a rainy Sunday afternoon when I couldn’t play golf, I was scribbling on some paper, thinking of various things, trying to look busy to avoid the Honey-Do list.  I figured out how to determine if the mass of the universe was increasing or decreasing

The Real Heroes of the Mining Industry Introspection time. Recently I spent a week or so in the hospital, and came face to face with the frailty of the human organism. I have always prided myself on being a relatively healthy person, and though I may indulge in the occasional

Some months ago I wrote one of my pieces on the history of the gold market, and in that article I included a paragraph about the association between oil and gold price. I didn’t understand it then, and don’t really understand it now. I understand that commodities go up together

Over the past few weeks, there has been a smoking hot debate over Hillary Clinton and her private email server utilized while she was Secretary of State. R: What did she say in these emails?  Did she turn all of them over last year? D: Of course she did!  You

In late 2013 I uploaded my first ‘Miller Time’ about the “Life and Times of the Gold Industry”. One or two of you may have read it. It’s still on the website if you’re interested. In that article I talked about the current depressed gold prices, and how it impacted