Mining Monitor: Velvet-Wood, Anson royalties, South32 Hermosa Mine

And some photos

The weather in the Four Corners Country was normal for May, which is to say it was absolutely abnormal. Following a long, hot and dry spell, the winds moved in, whipping the orange dust of the Colorado Plateau into a sand-blast to the face — and the rapidly melting snowpack. The airborne dust turned the sky into an orange veil that captured light. Then …