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Western Copper: Carmacks Copper Project Heap Leach Pad Decomissioning

Posted in Copper, Enviromental, feasibilty studies, Heap leach, North America on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is a pretty serious and technical posting. No scandle here; yet. Hopefully this is all about continuous performance improvement in the world of heap leach pad design; maybe. The Proposed Carmacks Copper Mining Project, Yukon Environmental Assessment Act, Additional Information Requirements asks for ten sets of data about heap leach pad reclamation, namely: 

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Bill & Frank versus Hillary re Kazakhstan uranium mining: what the bloggers are saying

Posted in About the news, Europe, Human relations and mining, People, Uranium on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra visiting Kazakhstan to enjoy a midnight banquet with its president has the bloggers running eloquent.  Here are a few of the choice comments:

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Web-based fun

Posted in Coal on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes a website is just too good not to share.  Here is a link to one I love.  Don’t be alarmed: just click with a little patience on the ladders.  Enjoy.  It is related to mining–I promise. 

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Bill and Frank corner Kazakhstan uranium mining: did anybody tell Hillary?

Posted in About the news, Europe, Investing & Finance, People, Uranium on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In the New York Times, we learn of Clinton having greatly helped Giustra sew up the rights to mine uranium in  Kazakhstan.  In return Clinton got $31 million.  The story is long and involved and everybody denies everything.  Just witness this typical quote: A spokesman for Mr. Clinton said the former president knew that Mr. Giustra [...]

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Republic of Mining: A new mining-related blog from Sudbury, Ontario

Posted in Human relations and mining, Mining history, People on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am delighted to have come across a new blog related to mining.  I have added it to my blogroll, but here is the link. The blog is by a skinny chap about my age who grew up around Sudbury, Ontario, worked awhile in the mines, got educated, and took to writing.  Now he has, [...]

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Power back in South Africa; but what new power to the powerful?

Posted in About the news, Africa, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The good news is that South African mines should be back on line when Escom resumes power supply.   The amazing news is  that the shortages occurred in the first place.  Here is a piece from a friend in South Africa who knows more about what is going on than I do:  Namibia [mining] is doing [...]

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How to buy cheap vacation property in California

Posted in About the news, Global Warming, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance on January 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

There is a foot or more of snow outside my study window.  It has been coming down for over 24 hours.  The hill that leads to the townhouse complex and the local Community College is too steep for buses to negotiate–cars are worse.  So the College is shut down and I am at home snow-bound.  [...]

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Grants, NM uranium mines to return to make the desert bloom?

Posted in decomissioning, Mining history, North America, Uranium on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Grants, New Mexico is a beautiful setting: blue sky over red rocks and that eternal brown desert.  A small, silent town of rugged folk.  When I lived and worked in Albuquerque, my youngest daughter took ballet lessons and every Christmas the dance school took their production of the Nutcracker on tour to Grants.  Being an able [...]

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A subtle knife to cut through the tragedy of human nature: Oberto versus Trial by Jury

Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining, Oil sands, opera, People on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A vast dose of flu contracted in the sun-drenched blue skies and powdered snow of a mine in Northern Alberta brought me down this weekend.  I missed the origami lesson and the local live opera.  Instead I finished the book, started on the small plane flying over white plains from Edmonton, The Subtle Knife, the second [...]

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How to get LA on the backs of the coal mining industry: make them pay for mine deaths

Posted in About the news, Coal, Community relations, health, health and safety, Human relations and mining, Law (Mining), North America, safety on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here comes a mining-related law suite that will expose the best and worst of the mining industry and the litigation industry.  Attorneys for heirs of seven of the miners killed last August at the Utah Crandall Canyon Mine filed suite Wednesday against the Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) and the Los Angeles Department of Water and [...]

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