Just added to the blogroll near the bottom left-hand side of this screen is a site that will reward your attention: Mining Towns in Canada is a blog posted by littlepatti. Seem this blog has been up since May 2007. I have only today come across it. It is a gentle place, full of reminiscing, and and glimpses [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Mining Towns in Canada: a new blog find from littlepatti
Posted in About the news, Mining history, North America, People on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The virtue of constancy in mining: from Pebble Mine, Alaska to uranium in Ontario
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Gold, People, Uranium on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing new on this blog since Thursday. The least serious reason is an aria, the first verse of which is:
Ethical mining undermined by companies that simply obey the law: what it takes to rank up there with Anglo American
Posted in About the news, Environment, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, People on October 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Geneve-based Covalence ranks these mining companies for their 2007 performance. Best EthicalQuote Score and Best EthicalQuote Progress are given by confronting positive and negative news. Best Reported Performance is calculated by quantifying positive news only – it shows how companies report on their ethical performance without considering criticisms and demands.
Government support for mining magazines and naked ladies
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Human relations and mining, North America on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Canadian government provides $68,298 a year to the Northern Miner to help pay the costs of posting the magazine out to subscribers. This is a pretty trivial sum by comparison with the $2.6 million the general interest magazine Canadian Living received to help post copies of the magazine to subscribers. These sums are disbursed [...]
China’s mining Trojan horse versus Christian missionaries
Posted in About the news, Africa, Community relations, Investing & Finance on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the November 2007 issue of Harper’s Magazine is a short note by Robin Fox The Kindness of Strangers. His thesis is captured by this observation: Since Laocoon’s warning to his fellow Trojans went so tragically unheeeded, the course of history has been strewn with the corpses of ungrateful nations which, despite the misery that [...]
Raise worker wages and empower trade unions to solve mining labor shortages?
Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A brief challenge to those who earn a living writing dire predictions about the shortage of workers available to work in the mines. Explain how the following fits in with your predictions. The Wall Street Journal describes the changing income patterns in the United States since 1979. Stephen J. Rose, notes: “While the percentage of U.S. jobs [...]
“Queens University” a new Colorado mining school to increase your salary!
Posted in About the news, People on October 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
No sooner had I posted the piece below on e-learning opportunities for the mining industry, than my attention was drawn to a long article entitled Back to School in the October issue of Mining Magazine. There Mr. Dave Porter writes about the Queens University of Brighton (QUB) in Aurora, Colorado. Seems Mr. Porter had an interview [...]
Solving the mining manpower shortage: start with multidisciplinary e-learning
Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries on October 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Almost every time you pick up a magazine or open a webpage, there is another article warning of dire shortages of mining engineers. Whole careers are made and new companies kept going on the issue. On measure of the direction things are heading comes from New Zealand: graduating mining engineers start at nearly $100,000 per year. Informally [...]
Atlas Mining Corporation sued over halloysite mine fraud: Supercapitalism in action
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, North America on October 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Over the weekend I wrote of the pressures on mining companies to perform or face loss of investors or customers or both. Here is a story of pressure that can be brought for non performance by employees and class-action law suite lawyers. The website LawyersandSettlements reports in dry tone: Atlas Mining Company has been accused of [...]
Supercapitalism: what is means to the mining industry
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Enviromental, Investing & Finance on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Rain has kept me indoors this weekend reading Robert B. Reich’s new book Supercapitalism. He mentions mining but once, noting in passing that New York City public employees via their pension fund own some $37 million worth of shares in the Freeport Mining Company’s gold mine in Papua. He does not decry this, saying that, like [...]
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