One must admire NIOSH. The quality of their technical work is impressive and the clarity of their conference presentations outstanding. This afternoon in the CIM technical session Innovative Mining Technology, we enjoyed presentations from NIOSH staff on underhand cut-and-fill mining, new support concepts for hard rock mines, dust control for mines, and characterization of nonometer [...]
Archive for April, 2007
NIOSH at CIM: great work as always
Posted in About the news, North America, Underground on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
South African mining on display at CIM Montreal
Posted in About the news, Africa on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How does one make sence of an exhibition hall larger than a football field? I suppose you walk fast and find those companies that supply products and services you need. I started out doing this, until I came across an area marked out “South Africa.” Within a few minutes my American accent subsided and my [...]
CIM Plenary Session
Posted in About the news on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The CIM is to be complimented on organizing an intelligent and informative plenary session to open this year’s conference in Montreal. Here is my first, brief report on this session—compiled from notes taken during the talks, and hence not always comprehensive or collated. The theme of the plenary session was energy and mines and this [...]
Montreal Diversity a Model for Canadian Mine Development: Pre-CIM Conference Thoughts
Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries, North America, People on April 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Iowa spring warmth made for a perfect weekend: I took the grandkids to the Belle Plaine park where we played on the weir as I tried to explain hydraulic jump. They thought I was crazy going on about energy changes in flowing water. So I lapsed into silence as they played on the swings and [...]
A BBC, Iowa, Indonesia, Mining, Newmont Report
Posted in About the news, Asia, Human relations and mining on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The only mining news this week that came to me, came via BBC at the top of the hour on the local NPR radio station. In sober and quasi-analytical style, an English accent reported that Newmont had been found innocent in Indonesia. My heart leapt and I listened intently. The BBC take was that the [...]
Oil Sands politics and silly demands by incompetent governments on the mining industry
Posted in About the news, North America, Oil sands on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Madison Dialogue is a website of breathtaking scope and arrogance. Here is how they described themselves:”The Madison Dialogue was launched at a meeting in New York (on Madison Avenue), in August 2006. Participants in that meeting included EARTHWORKS, WWF, Partnership Africa Canada, Tiffany & Co. Foundation, The Council for Responsible Jewelry Practices (CRJP), the [...]
Mining blog ethics — how to defend the industry and offend everybody else
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Human relations and mining on April 26, 2007 | 6 Comments »
In a recent newsletter from InfoMine I wrote “This blog posting explores the role of passion, politics, law, and powerful men in opening new mines and stopping mine development in it tracks.” In short order, a correspondent took me to task for “alienating potential readers with an opening statement that suggests that only men hold [...]
Old mines as sources of never-ending heat and energy?
Posted in About the news, Underground on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most underground mines involve ventilation systems. You need to push cool surface air down into those hot, deep workings to keep them cool. The right temperature in underground mine workings is not only a matter of pleasant surroundings. I recall reading that the accident rate jumps as the temperature increases: at about seventy degrees things [...]
Outsource IT to Hyderabad, and learn a new language
Posted in About the news, Asia on April 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No recommendations or endorsements implied in this posting. But it is information that attracts my attention and it is information that may benefit a mine somewhere, so I pass it on. Keep in mind I am a semi-retired professional engineer and produce this blog on the basis that I write what interests me, not what may be of [...]
Who owns US mines? Canada of course. Is this good?
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, North America on April 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I do not thinks there is anything wrong or inappropriate about the facts I cite in this article. My Canadian friends bewail the fact that the United States is an imperial power, colonizing smaller nations and exploiting their resources. They deny that Canada is as imperial a colonizer as any. Consider Canadian ownership of United [...]
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