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Archive for June, 2007

Natural history, minerals, museums, and grandkids

Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The plain truth is that today I did not work. Instead I took my two older grandkids to the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. This follows a visit over the weekend to the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in West LA. I have always been fascinated by natural history, dinosaurs, and early mammals. I [...]

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Newmont, Buyat Bay, and Blogs: the truth lies not with NGOs: but does the victory?

Posted in About the news, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Enviromental on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The saddest and yet most inspring blog I have yet seen is that by Eric Ness, son of Richard Ness, the Newmont executive charged and found innocent in Indonesia of polluting Buyat Bay. I am adding his blog to this site’s blogroll so that you can read the past and follow the present and future [...]

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New writings from Michele Murray

Posted in About the news, Geology, People on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

One of the advantages of a blog is the speed with which you can act. Here is a link to some writings that came to my attention a few minutes ago. I do no more than bring it to your attention and recommend it for yuor reading pleasure and enjoyment. And as always thanks to [...]

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Unions versus mine management: a search for improvement or just politics as usual?

Posted in About the news, Australia and New Zealand, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, North America on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Unions and mine management are at one anothers’ throats again; or so it seems reading these two news reports. The one pits workers against management on the issue of safety. The other pits workers against management on the issue of salaries. I can empathize on the issue of safety: who best to decide what is [...]

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Mine-induced seismicity: personal recollections induced by fine writings

Posted in About the news, Africa, Enviromental, Underground on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Mine-induced seismicity is an ever present problem in most mining areas where there are deep mines and local populations. Rock bursts occur and the mining causes earthquake-like events that collapse mine workings, kill miners, and damage structures on the surface. My own interest in the subject of mine-induced seismicity was sparked by a tremor in [...]

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Mine ventilation from Google, SME, and CIM conferences

Posted in About the news, Underground on June 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

A friend informed me that he nevers goes past the first ten listing of a Google search – he says he always finds what he is seeking on the first page. I, by comparison, usually go furher: this past week I examined the first three hundred listing of a Google search of the keywords “mine [...]

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The success of old oil towns from California to Alberta: oil sands under the USA spotlight

Posted in About the news, Enviromental, North America, Oil sands on June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Fifteen years ago I bought a townhouse in Huntington Beach, California for about $250K. The house was cheap by local standards mainly because the surounding area was all old oil fields: an environmental mess. Remediation was in progress by soil vapor extraction, bio-remediation, and other experimental technologies. There were even six “oil islands” within the [...]

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Chinese tomb mining; Egyptian mummies; and babies at El Escorial; a reflection of social conditions or a mere quest for profit?

Posted in About the news, Asia, Human relations and mining on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The most bizarre mining news for some time is this report: Illegal mining is threatening imperial Qing Dynasty tombs dating back more than 300 years, state media reported Tuesday. The Eastern Tombs are the largest imperial mausoleum complex in China, housing the remains of 161 members of the Qing Dynasty royal family, including five emperors [...]

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Uranium mining in the Canadian north: the obvious answer is UMTRA

Posted in About the news, North America, Reclamation, Uranium on June 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »

By now there is probably some agreement or consensus to disagree. I have just read the report of a gathering in “the tiny Arctic hamlet in the middle of the tundra…..Baker Lake, Nunavut,” where folk gathered on Sunday for a three-day debate on “whether uranium mining will secure their future or poison it.” The politics [...]

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Heap leach pad earthquake response: is it an issue?

Posted in About the news, Heap leach, Latin America on June 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Are heap leach pads susceptible to slope instability due to an earthquake? In theory, the most likely failure mode is sliding of the heap leach material along the basal liner in the event of a severe earthquake. Liquefaction of the heap leach material is generally unlikely as heap leach pad materials are generally too coarse [...]

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