The troglobite will soon be a common mining word, or at least a swear word. Rio Tinto is seeking to expand iron ore mining near Pannawonica in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. They want to develop a new mine to replace the existing mine that will be worked out in the next decade or [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Rio Tinto mine expansion halted by troglobites: sustainable development versus sustainable species
Posted in About the news, Australia and New Zealand, Enviromental on March 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Salary update for US coal, metal, and aggregate mines – are you earning enough?
Posted in About the news, Coal, Gold, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Uranium on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Are you being paid as much for working in a mine as you are worth? Bet somebody, somewhere, doing the same job as you, is earning more. The question is, are you prepared to move to that other place to get a higher salary? Is more money worth the family disruption and settling in to [...]
UN to spend $14M to improve Chinese coal mine safety and attack global warming?
Posted in About the news, Asia, Coal, Global Warming, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, People on March 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
How the world has changed. Can you imagine this: China is letting the United Nations in to launch a project to improve safety for Chinese coal miners. Here are extracts from the Canadian Press report: The United Nations launched a project Tuesday to improve safety for Chinese coal miners, who average 13 deaths a day [...]
Tolukuma mine tailings disposal contamination, condemnation, and conundrums
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Enviromental, Hydrology and hydraulics on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is one of those reports on mining that infuriates the reader because of incompetent brevity and hints of worse to come: AAP reports re the Tolukuma Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea that the mine “dumps its mining residue into the river system…[but]..blood test data ….from village communities [downstream of the mine]…did not show [...]
A new mining investment blog: The Bottom Line
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance on March 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Just added to the Blogroll is a new blog The Bottom Line by Michael Assouline CFA. There are but three posts and no comments. These are the posts: Substance behind the uranium hype. Getting technical with copper To beat the market, stick to the basics. Good luck to him. Good luck to you investing on his advice. [...]
Blog advertising to the mining industry: groundfloor opportunities
Posted in About the news on March 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The conclusions from the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada are pretty obvious: (1) not many blogs have ads, yet; (2) 52% of readers say they trust blogs; (3) blogs could eat into paper and online newspaper ad revenue; and (4) there is still much opportunity to create branded, credible blogs.
More mining opportunities in global warming
Posted in Community relations, Global Warming, Investing & Finance on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How can mines benefit from global warming? Greg Easterbrook, in the April 2007 Atlantic Monthly notes that in economics there are no zero-sum games; somebody will benefit from global warming. His top nominees are the Inuit who rule Nunavut, a place that will change from a frozen waste land to a nice warm place. Then there is Greenland [...]
Technorati and world blog mining
Posted in About the news on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Technorati claims to give you a Technorati Profile and link your blog into the wider world on blogs. I am trying that right now so we can get more exposure. Also maybe I can get hold of more blogs on mining. Stay tuned and I will expand this piece on the larger world of blogs, mining, [...]
Mining equipment, Firwin, and military exploits — support our troops
Posted in People on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Browsing websites can be fun. They open your eyes to details of the familiar that you had not previously noticed. And they can set you off thinking of family and fear. These trivial observations are occasioned by looking at the Firwin site. They make removable insulation systems. Not being sure what a removable insulation system is, I [...]
Oregon mining museums: opportunities for sustainable resource development
Posted in Gold, Human relations and mining, Mining history, North America on March 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There are, or at some time in the past have been, at least 270 mines in Jackson County, Oregon (Mindat) In the Jacksonville District there are the Grace Diggings, Jacksonville Placer, Norlin Mine, Opp Mine, Opp Placer, Town Mine, Williamson Mine, Winchester Housten Placer Mine, and Yellow King Mine. Gold mining in Oregon had its [...]
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