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Archive for July, 2007

J. Henry Fair’s photos of Industrial Waste; and other art of the earth

Posted in About the news, Geology on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Click this link: the site to which you will go fills the screen with a series of views of an upstream tailings impoundment. Rather conventional. Then the screen brings up an advert for a larger spread in the current issue of Harpers, that venerable old liberal insititution. Be patient and slowly a series of the [...]

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Costa Rica Bellavisa mine heap leach pad failure a morass of unanswered conundrums

Posted in About the news, Gold, Heap leach, Latin America on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

There are few mines in Costa Rica. Tourism is more lucrative. And it seems so too are displaced Americans and Canadians building houses at bargain basement prices. There will probably be even fewer mines in Costa Rica once the problem at the Bellavista mine heap leach pad becomes common knowledge. Here is an edited version [...]

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How the mining industry should reform Wikipedia

Posted in About the news, Community relations, Human relations and mining on July 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »

In yesterday’s blog posting, I mused about the quality of information on Wikipedia about Canadian mining companies–basically said it is lousy. Then I wondered if the open model of Wikipedia would beat out the closed model of the Encyclopedia Britannica and other sites where you pay a fee to access information. I repeat below an [...]

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Wikipedia muddies & muddles the truth of Canadian Mining Companies

Posted in About the news, Mining history, North America on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Some of my best friends are confirmed hypocrites. They loudly criticize Wikipedia, while proudly praising the Encyclopedia Britannica. Yet on enquiry, I find that none of them owns a hard-copy of the famous encyclopedia, nor are they prepared to pay for a subscription to the encylcopedia’s website. I suspect they have never actually looked into [...]

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Royalty Gold and investing in precious metal mine royalties

Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Stan Dempsey, Executive Chairman of Royal Gold, and Randy Parcel, Attorney, made an intriguing presentation at the 53rd Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Vancouver last week. Intriguing because they spoke of the law of mining royalties as it affects their company Royal Gold. They noted, as is repeated on their website, that they [...]

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Cameco gets the groundwater story wrong again: uranium hexafluoride in the soil puts 420 out of work

Posted in About the news, Hydrology and hydraulics, Investing & Finance, North America, Uranium on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I spent many years wondering around the American Southwest, poking around old uranium mines and mills. I worked around the old uranium production plants of Fernald and Weldon Springs. At these plants and at these old mills and mines, the soil was often heavily contaminated by uranium and its daughter products. Afterall the bombs were [...]

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Yamana stalks Meridian: an “action junkie” goes after the staid Nevadans

Posted in About the news, Gold, Investing & Finance on July 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Yamana Gold has made a hostile bid valued at a reported $3 billion for Meridian Gold. The announcement on the Meridian Gold site is not enthusiastic: “Consistent with its fiduciary duties, Meridian Gold’s Board of Directors will carefully review and consider the offer and will advise Meridian Gold shareholders of the Board’s recommendation with respect [...]

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Religion trumps mining: recent court cases on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Posted in About the news, Law (Mining) on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Mark Squillace is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado. In a masterful summary of recent developments in the law as it affects mining and public lands that he made this mornining at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute meeting in Vancouver, he gave somber warnings of the implications [...]

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Aquiline versus IMA Exploration: how Confidentiality Agreements go right/wrong

Posted in About the news, Law (Mining) on July 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Accolades to Fred Pletcher, an attorney with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, and Anthony Zoobkoff, Senior Council for Teck Cominco, on the best delivery of a presentation I have ever seen at a conference. The topic could be dry and dull: confidentiality agreements in the mining industry. But they got the audience up and interested with [...]

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Law, mining, and water

Posted in About the news, Enviromental, Law (Mining), North America on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This morning at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute conference, I sat in on the session devoted to law, water, and mining. The issues discussed are convoluted, but here is my summary of what I heard–I promise only that I will read the papers and write in more detail about the fascinating issues each presentation [...]

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