One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series....
Resources and mining have carried a number of economies over the past few years post GFC (and to the cynics pre GFC”2”)….none has relied on this sector more so than Australia. The world’s largest continent is a veritable treasure trove of precious, dirty, radioactive, caustic metals and minerals. Australia boasts the largest deposits of uranium, iron ore, gold, diamonds and bauxite found anywhere else on the planet. You literally stick a shovel in the ground and strike something in Australia….there literally is gold in them there hills….
In bauxite, Australia alone accounts for 30% of the world’s production and Australia’s bauxite mining industry generated volumes of 9 million tonnes valued at A$1.91 billion in 2011. More than 85% of the bauxite mined globally is converted to alumina for the production of aluminium metal. Australia also happens to be one of the world’s largest aluminium producers. Mining bauxite is a grubby affair but with these kinds of volumes and the fact that the bauxite industry accounts for over 12,000 direct jobs in Australia it is very serious business.
Today’s cuff links are in the 70’s “kitsch” category and were a gift to your scribe from a major player in the bauxite game. They are bauxite pebbles set in resin and housed in….you guessed it aluminium! Worn with a Brooks Brothers shirt they are beautifully off set with a copper toned Gucci silk neck tie.
Our honorary Link Person of the day is of course Mae West, who with her cleavage showing off her greatest assets, in a slow murmuring purr looking down her low cut dress and said…”There’s gold in them there hills”…..
Enough said........
ONWARDS
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series....
Resources and mining have carried a number of economies over the past few years post GFC (and to the cynics pre GFC”2”)….none has relied on this sector more so than Australia. The world’s largest continent is a veritable treasure trove of precious, dirty, radioactive, caustic metals and minerals. Australia boasts the largest deposits of uranium, iron ore, gold, diamonds and bauxite found anywhere else on the planet. You literally stick a shovel in the ground and strike something in Australia….there literally is gold in them there hills….
In bauxite, Australia alone accounts for 30% of the world’s production and Australia’s bauxite mining industry generated volumes of 9 million tonnes valued at A$1.91 billion in 2011. More than 85% of the bauxite mined globally is converted to alumina for the production of aluminium metal. Australia also happens to be one of the world’s largest aluminium producers. Mining bauxite is a grubby affair but with these kinds of volumes and the fact that the bauxite industry accounts for over 12,000 direct jobs in Australia it is very serious business.
Today’s cuff links are in the 70’s “kitsch” category and were a gift to your scribe from a major player in the bauxite game. They are bauxite pebbles set in resin and housed in….you guessed it aluminium! Worn with a Brooks Brothers shirt they are beautifully off set with a copper toned Gucci silk neck tie.
Our honorary Link Person of the day is of course Mae West, who with her cleavage showing off her greatest assets, in a slow murmuring purr looking down her low cut dress and said…”There’s gold in them there hills”…..
Enough said........
ONWARDS
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