Mining News: For miners, tomorrow is another day

J. P. Tangen

Special to Mining News

The economy is crashing, commodities are down, the White House hates us; but other than that, how do you feel about the future? I wanted the gold and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave; Be it famine or scurvy, I fought it; I hurled my youth into the grave… “The Spell of the Yukon,” by Robert Service

I do love metaphors and aphorisms; there’s one for every occasion. For instance, it is often noted that, on the one hand, it is always darkest before the dawn and, on the other, that the light at the end of the tunnel is another train. It would be folly to believe that in today’s environment, things....