To avoid the reality of working on Monday, let me recount weekend pleasures. Friday I stayed home home and read through all 299 pages of the Scoble Report. I admit I scanned some parts; who wants to read the full cry of the cement manufacturer? The report in its magnificent entiriety reinforces just how radical and seminal a [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Monday reflections on Kemess mine and mine-own weekend wickedness
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Investing & Finance, North America on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Weekend blog mining for more blogs on mining
Posted in About the news on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Assuming you have the weekend time and interest, here is a series of sources on mining that you may wish to explore.
Global warming, cows, credits, hamburgers and what the mining industy must do
Posted in About the news, Global Warming on September 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (BC) kicked off their distinguished-speaker lunch series today. The venue was one of those hotel rooms with an impossibly high ceiling and walls festooned with gilt-painted plaster curliques and dying-grass-green drapes. The talk was on an issue that is sure to excite the mining industry for years to [...]
Nominations for young mining professor of the future award
Posted in About the news, People on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the bench outside the drinking hole, you see the skeletons of three old marine buildings. Just beyond that are four tug boats bobbing fat and squat on the tide. And beyond that elegant yachts grace the setting sun. I sat quaffing large glasses of draft ale with a colleague from thirty years and more [...]
Scoble’s Kemess Mine Report a “bad day for BC Mining?” or the “ARD Full-Employment Act?
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Hydrology and hydraulics, North America, Tailings on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I had supper with some senior folk in the BC mining industry. Their unequivocal opinion was that Scoble’s Kemess report constitutes a “bad day” for BC mining. When I explained that, in my opinion, the basis of the decisions was that ten years of mining income could not offset thousands of years of [...]
Kemess mine rejection report sets a dangerous precedent in a free society: leave it to the lawyers, not the professors and consultants
Posted in About the news on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These three people will go down as heroes (or villains) in North American mining history: Carol Jones, a soil scientist specializing in mine reclamation; Malcolm Scoble, a mining engineering professor; and Mark Duiven, a natural resource and community development consultant. Their names and memory will, down the ages, be revered or reviled depending on your [...]
Rio Tinto provides a new home for troglobites: at the bottom of the mine’s open pit
Posted in About the news, Enviromental on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The troglobite that held up the mining giant Rio Tinto has been vanquished. AAP reports as follows:
BC Premier Campbell sends nasty letter to Montana Gov. Schweitzer: how not to conduct international mining negotiations; and another mining investment rule
Posted in About the news, Coal, Investing & Finance, North America on September 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Biking around Vancouver yesterday, we dropped into a coffee shop on Granville Island. The coffee was advertised as Organic and Fair Trade. I noticed that four of their major offerings were from Cuba. Baffled by the concept of anything fair trade from Cuba, I asked the young lady behind the counter how coffee from Cuba [...]
Weekend mining games from Caterpillar: TV as a genuine mine-training activity
Posted in About the news, Software on September 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The fifteen-year old, fifteen-inch TV died this weekend. Now I have a major problem: disposing of the hazardous waste supposedly inside. With only a bike to transport things, I will probably have to break the old TV into tiny parts and mix them in with kitchen waste to be sneaked into the garbage container of [...]
Investment Rule 3: Sell when you read news about the mine’s waste rock dump, tailings impoundment, or heap leach pad
Posted in About the news, Enviromental, Investing & Finance on September 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Maybe on a quiet weekend you review your stock portfolio; particulary the one including your investments in mines and mining companies. If this is what you are, inter alia, doing this weekend, here is another of those slightly silly little investment rules I post from time to time. Investment Rule 3. If there is a [...]
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