If your engineering company is involved in the building of mine works at a central Colorado molybdenum site, you will probably, sooner or later, get a request from a rather sheepish engineering manager that you update the company spam filter to white-list the terms "erection" and "Climax."

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Ahhh, I did not know that you all were involved in the Climax Mine rebuild. Should be fun to see what happens after they spent the past 20 years tying to reclaim the area.

We use a BlueCat appliance that snargs a half-million messages a day. False-positives on spam are a huge problem on campus, often for reasons no one can identify within the message itself.

I've always wondered what we're going to do for molybdenum, chromium, and certain rare Earths when mineral resources become scarce. It's not like anyone is recycling old tools or knives or LED's. We might recycle solar cells someday.

DOF, Moly bottomed out in the 80s and didn't become profitable again to mine for it in the U.S. until last year.

This is more specific info about my employer than I usually indulge in here at DDtB, but the story (which I overheard, as I sit next door to the site IT manager) was too good to *not* tell.

Almost as good as the folks who complained that their e-mails that had text and tables with references to cumulative totals (abbreviated to the first three letters) were being somehow lost in the anti-spam system ...