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Reforming the global mining structure is the solution to green technology advancement and immediate global implementation!
A brand new primary sector understanding indicates that the global mining industry has restricted underground mining in favor of surface mining in order increase metal prices. As can be explained easily over many decades.
This mining intention has been in place for over 50 years and has increased metal prices by 400%.
The difficult thing to understand is that the mining industry is actually unaware of its existence.
So here in this lies the world solution to affordable global green technology implementation, jobs for hundreds of millions of people, a large increase in revenue for governments, and a human development turn around.
All provided by the mining industry and the 400% reduction of all base and rare earth metal prices.
The solution is in the place we last expected it to come from. Mining!
This topic is highly detailed in the publication link below.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109637671/Our-World-the-New-Option
I would love to get the feedback of TED readers involved with Green Tech, Climate Change, Government Policy, Change Leadership, and Human Development.
Brendon Butler
ZX Style 10+
Most people here don't have mining experience nor the argot in which you are talking.
Furthermore this is your second question here on TED i've seen and you haven't replied on the previous question.
And the questions you set up are way too vague to comprehend or react on.
So all of this makes it hard to put effort in you question.
Nevertheless i took a look at your publication.
First thing came to my mind when i saw it was, i don't really get your point.
Are you proving a conspiracy theory?
Are you advertising underground mining techniques.
I mostly found it vague, and i would be more specific in your publication.
In fact i suggest you to use a normal university structure of your publication.
Start with a clear summary and after that give us some background information.
Now i had to read an unstructured staccato list of items you are talking about.
If you are proving conspiracy, i don't buy it.
The mining business is an open free market, with many players and easy to step into.
If a big player like rio tinto refused to dig deeper, another company would dig deeper and made more profit.
So the fact that all mining company's are still using open pit mining, you can assume that it is not paying out to do this deep digging you are talking about.
I think the another reason why open pit mining is still the main practice, is because its paying out immediately.
It requires no or little new and expensive techniques to take the gamble and dig deep underground.
And eventually they come down to the deep pay streak layers. It just takes some time.
But time is on the mining companies side.
Mining companies have advantige by this status quo.
1 open pit mining is profitable enough right now.
2 open pit mining buys time to reach the rich layers of ground.
3 a lot of employment can be guaranteed over a long period of time.
So why all the effort in mining deep down?
Brendon Butler
Firstly, sorry for not responding to you on the other question thread.
I actually agree with your analysis that TED mat not be the best tool for my global system understanding.
I understand my publication is vague and detailed at the same time.
The publication is a series of phases. The reason for these phases has been to gain enough validity to move to the next phase. First was to get truthful responses from mining insiders about their real interpretation of the mining industry. Now if I wrote a too convincing publication I would have scared them off, so I wrote it in the style of a conspiracy theory. This technique proved to be far more valuable than I had anticipated.
1. Proving that underground mining machines and methods are not as efficient as what experienced miners believe they should be. From my own mining machinery management experience and responses from very experienced mining machinery maker insiders.
2. Proving also that miners favour surface mining for economics purposes.
Individually each of these understandings can be easily passed off as “it just happens” and I agree with that.
However, when you put them together it creates a closed-circuit system.
A closed-circuit system creates its own back and forth movements in cause and effect regardless of input from large miners or manufacturers. The fact that a Rio employee states the economic reasons for surface mining over underground mining is not the argument at all. Nor is it the fact that I have proved that mining machinery makers have had free will over increasing metal prices through restricting underground mining efficiency.
It is the combination of the two that multiplies both in to a 50year plus “natural evolution” of a closed-circuit system.
I must admit that for many years I did think that there was a managed force at play. But as time has moved on I can easily say that there is no overarching conspiracy.
So if there is no conspiracy.
ZX Style 10+
I respect you for having the energy to make this detailed publication and the energy you have to battle the big shots and i even did not red it completely.
Would you mind Ted- people for not concerning this issue?
TED people are consumers, not companies who deal with the mining industry.
As long as we can afford a new TV, we are okay.
A mining convention or metal convention would be a better audience.
If i try to rephrase you, you are suggesting a few ways how underground mining could be done more efficient in time and fewer materials and so forts.
This may be true, but i disagree that this price drop that follows would be beneficial for the world or jobs. Why?
Because if the price of metals drops, the value of the assets of mining companies will also drop.
Hence an equal amount of metal for a lower price with a smaller margin.
The first thing which happens is that a lot of investors lose a lot of money because the devaluation of the assets.
The second thing which would happen is that companies are faster trough their material and the mining sites are emptying earlier, leading to fast loss of local jobs.
As a consumer i am satisfied by the current price levels of consumer goods.
I don't see how lower prices will improve my life.
Brendon Butler
The mining industry is not going to change the way they are. They are happy with the way things are like you. Which is fine. But I am not addressing an individual person, company or even the mining sector. I am addressing the global economic system.
Yes investors will lose value in mining specifically, but they will jump ship as they always do when the economics changes. no surprise there.
The second thing you mention is that assets will be emptied faster. I disagree. If the efficiency increases then the grams per ton to make the operation profitable drops significantly, meaning the ore body is expanded by many factors of scale. Much more to mine. A geologist will also tell you that.
As a consumer, you should be concerned. If mining takes more than it should then the prices are higher meaning that in the current state of affairs the cash velocity (high price-low volume) is reduced. This means your products, your jobs, your investment returns are all minimized by the single acceptance of "the current mining system".
This is not a mining issue. This is a me, a you, a your next door neighbor issue.
Mining is not going to change itself! So I guess it is up to me and you and manufacturing and government and green technology etc to demand the change instead.
Do you think there is an audience for this type of knowledge?
Good questions! ZX
Brendon Butler
Because it has been going on so long, it has completely integrated itself into the entire global economy and created economies and flow on systems of its very own.
This awareness of the evolutionary development global mining is something that miner CEO’s and even the mining machinery maker CEO’s are completely unaware of. I cannot show in a public forum the feedback I have been getting, but on LinkedIn I have a mixture of 26 VPs, Presidents, CEOs, Chairman and owners from mining companies all over the world. In addition, they are still connected with me after making them fully aware of the systems existence. Along with more than a dozen Mining Machinery Makers of equal calibre. I make sure they are acutely aware of the system also. Added, they have provided private supporting understandings. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=218072230&trk=hb_tab_pro_top
My publication is the beginning of a system response to a system issue no one knows they are a part of.
However, the system needs more than just a mining system response. This is because the price of metals affect every single economic sector in many different ways.
So, the next phase was to get the understanding from leading economists. Which I have but also cannot show in a public forum.
And finally I now have enough to take it to the final phase. Leadership capable of demanding global awareness that brings the change.
Hence my approach to the readers of TED…
So this is where you and I are right now. I do think that TED is a great platform but I am unsure for the practical purpose I require for finding a Leader. A courageous and concerned voice so to say. I no longer need more proof of concept as I have more than enough from many related experts and insiders.
I know I will not make an impact on TED, but I am fishing for Leader.
ZX Style 10+
You allready have done the most work so they have to reinvestigate a little more and this will be published. Once published the ball will be rolling and the revolution you have been waiting for might become reality.
But for the sake of your credibility, try to make your publication more professional.
Try to keep one font and one font size, structured paragraphs and a table of contents.
Also i'd suggest to improve the images, to be more professional and independently readable.
No offence, but sometimes it looks like a kid is stating something, i think spending some time on the lay out will buy you great credibility.
I would take out the first few phases cause they are true as you said yourself.
I would rewrite some
Brendon Butler
The professionalism of the publication was purposefully left out for the early stages to present myself as not being a threat. And someone the mining industry insiders would be more willing to show their hands to. It is a strategy I have used a lot in the past and it has treated me very well in terms of getting the difficult information.
I can not pretend to be a professional when I am only street wise "so to say".
When taking a wild global position like I am. It buys its own niche. Underdog 101.
Nothing of what I have written is business as normal.
It is not really for academics or professionals. But for a person that sees a problem and wants to fix it, take ownership of it. You get the picture. People like to offer help. It is designed to rub all the rest the wrong way. This removes the unnecessary noise.
As for TED I am just dipping my toes. I expected this to get passed off a nonsense.
I am a realist. There are probably less than a handful of people on the planet that would be capable of engaging this. I am very close to a few...
Very best
Brendon
Brendon Butler
I think I need to bring you up to speed of where I am actually at.
Global manufacturing companies have over US$1Trillion sitting on their books they are "desperate" to invest. How much inspiration do you think they need for this?
Governments have large debts on their balance sheets and an obligation to generate millions of jobs.
Global metal commodities are going to be slashed by me and I can do it through any Market, Government, Media Outlet and so on... in a million different forms. I only need one Leader.
When Base Metals and Rare Earth prices drop:
1. Green tech will have no option but to boom.
2. Global manufacturing will boom.
3. Hundreds of millions of jobs created
4. Government debts slashed
5. etc...
I have global unity in the palm of my hand.
So, are there any Leaders in TED?
This is not about mining deep it is about vastly improving the efficiency of shallow 1km-2km underground mining.
You are right in your understanding that this current system is advantageous to current miners. That is why I am not asking big miners to make the change. I am getting the market to demand it. And the market will demand it when it becomes aware of it.
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Brendon Butler
Best regards
Brendon
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Brendon Butler
You are more than welcome to ask me questions.
I understand how my publication can be difficult to understand as it crosses the divide of practical solutions tied into philosophical changes amongst most levels of the economic and human development spread.
I do not know your background, which makes it difficult for me to help you understand how this may affect people in your particular position (if you were actually curious) considering you only wish to provide me with statements.
Metals supply and prices are the foundation to our economy that directly affects many of the humanitarian and development conversations provided by TED. I felt it my responsibility to at least inform members and fellows of TED of these substantial changes. And then to allow myself to answer questions as best I can considering my publication is in the process of global rollout. A rather difficult position you need to understand.
However, if you feel that I have crossed the line for the informational curiosity of TED guidelines, please inform TED and I will abide by their advice.
Best regards
Brendon