Random Facts

I'm still doing inductions to different mine sites. Mostly the inductions tell you the samething over and over again, with slight variations depending upon the mining company.

I was sitting through another the other day and up came a random fact. It hasn't been mentioned anywhere else I have been. In amongst the usual "the mine has a million ways to kill you" there was new piece of information for me to process.

Watch out for brown snakes.

Snakes feel vibration through the ground and tend to go away from humans when they feel approaching footsteps. The snakes at this mine have apparently become oblivious to the vibration factor, because so much blasting occurs - there's vibrations in the ground all the time.

Brilliant. They dig a massive hole in the ground to tear out all the coal that has been formed billions of years ago. They carry on about minimising the environmental impact and dust suppression when in the neighbouring towns one in three children has athsma. And now they producing a supersnake.