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Where our LinkedIn posts become durable and searchable. Every argument traces to peer-reviewed work, and a new piece goes up each month, rotating six themes: scale, carbon, tailings, water, the framework, and the personal why.

WATER
The thickener that paid for itself in eight days

A $350K box of process kit at a Chilean copper mine, an NPV of $178M, and recovered water at negative marginal cost. Here is the full stack.

TAILINGS
We read 50 mining reports. One disclosed what its tailings dam costs.

The biggest number on a dam is the one nobody writes down. Why the standard still does not ask, and what a per-dry-tonne metric fixes.

CARBON
A carbon tax would make mining a net winner. Coal excepted.

Most metals add under 30% to price under a global carbon tax. Steaming coal would be taxed over 150%. Miners are lobbying against their own P&L.

FRAMEWORK
Every mining company has a CFO. None have a Chief Natural Capital Officer.

The measurement gap is the root cause of bad natural-capital decisions. Current accounting literally cannot see natural capital.

SCALE
If Escondida's water use were a city, it would be Chile's second largest

Mining is roughly 90% of all human waste once you count waste rock. One mine, reframed as a metropolis, shows why scale is the whole argument.

THE WHY
The rainy day a flooded apple tree made me quit as a copper-mining CEO

Abundant water at home in Oregon, scarce water in the Atacama copper I was selling. That contrast is where the whole mission started.

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