This is not necessarily the best way to start a sober piece on the topic of women in mining, but what other way is appropriate when last night my older daughter had a baby daughter? Both are well and I am stuck babysitting the older brother, so here goes an attempt at a serious piece. [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Women in mining and industry
Posted in About the news, People on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mine surface water management: some free books chock full of information and practical procedures
Posted in About the news, Hydrology and hydraulics on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These manuals, that are available for free download off the internet, have nothing to do with mining. Yet I submit they may constitute a valuable resourse for the new mines proposed in proximity to the cities for which these manuals are written. I make this submission on the basis that prudent policy dictates that every [...]
Computer models for mine surface water evaluation and design
Posted in About the news, Hydrology and hydraulics on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is some practical advice I cull from Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis (1988) by Philip B. Bendient and Wayne C. Huber. They recommend the following steps in using models to simulate and analyze surface water management problems:
Gully erosion: can it be “calculated”
Posted in About the news on May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A short piece to ask for help from the readers of this blog. I have tried in vain to find a suitable numerical procedure to calculate the onset and development of gullies on the steeper sideslopes of mine waste disposal facilities. I read about some Australian successes with a computer code called SIBERIA. But I [...]
History repeats itself as the Gething project seeks to bring in Chinese to operate a new coal mine
Posted in About the news, Coal, Global Warming, North America on May 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In 1870 the population of the United States was about 30 million–more or less the current population of Canada. By 1900 the United States population had doubled. Gold mining had something to do with this increase. In the early years of the 1900s, Chinese workers came to Canada (and the US.) Is the Canadian population [...]
Drugs in the mine workplace: a silly Canadian court decision clashes with common sense and safety
Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining, Law (Mining), North America, Oil sands, People on May 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We have all heard of those ridiculous US court decisions where some careless woman gets a huge award from McDonalds because she drives away with hot coffee in her lap and proceeds to spill the coffee. Now from a Canadian court we get as stupid a ruling. But this time it is a judge not [...]
Arizona mining and global warming via environmental sensitivity
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Global Warming, North America on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is Friday evening and weekend plans are being formulated for parties and social gatherings. I have just returned from a dinner with three of the most ethical people I know. The cook is the best I have ever encountered: one of those “natural” cooks who make even the ordinary extraordinary. We started with Mexican [...]
UBC Mining is $15 Million richer – how will they improve mining?
Posted in About the news, North America, People on May 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sitting in the luxurious staff restaurant of the University of British Columbia eating fine food and looking out over the best view in the world, I have been honored to meet some of the top professors in the UBC mining department. So I am prejudiced and biased towards their success. Thus I was delighted to [...]
Mining jobs at risk as costs rise and resources dwindle
Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For a while now, we have grown used to the perpetual wails that there are not enough people to do all the mining work that needs be done. We have heard professors call for more money to train miners; we have seen governments fund glossy brochures to lure kids into the mines; we have even encouraged [...]
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