Every underground manager has one rule they would paint on the crib room wall if the site would let them.
Ours is two words long: always look up.
Some background on who is writing this feed. Codi Busson, our Manager Underground, holds a First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency and got there the long way — operator, drill and blast, planning, and up through the statutory roles rather than around them.
That rule has survived every commodity, every roster, and at least one board presentation. It is also the standard this page gets held to: not what the textbook says, but what actually holds up underground.
When you look up, what are you looking for?
