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13.07.2025 709It all started innocently enough. I was preparing a piece on geologists' salaries - I was looking at vacancies, collecting…- 03.06.2025 749Most of the large and easily accessible deposits have already been explored. Simple methods - find a magnetic anomaly or…
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30.12.2025It has been a very busy year for our young media outlet. We published 35 big articles - we talked…
31.07.2025When I was offered to become an information partner of the Geological Exploration Case Championship, at first I thought: "Cool.…
13.07.2025It all started innocently enough. I was preparing a piece on geologists' salaries - I was looking at vacancies, collecting…- 27.06.2025I recently received a strange reproach from the PR department of an institute: "Why did you interview our expert without…
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