The kind of day that makes memories: I took my two-and-a-half-year old grandson to downtown Disney today. We ate french fries and watched the monorail pass by. We bought a Jack Sparrow sword and fought the snake suspended from the ceiling of the Jungle Store. We threw coins into innumerable fountains that shot their waters with irregular [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Ralph B. Peck — our respects
Posted in Geotechnical, People, tagged Albuquerque, engineering, Geotechnical, mining, Observational Method, Ralph B. Peck on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aristrocratic down-nose views of Holocene people who refuse to support mining; why the Canadian Mining Journal is wrong again
Posted in Community relations, Mining history, North America, People, tagged Canadian Mining Journal, First Nations, garden of Eden, holocene, indians, mining on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Canadian Mining Journal has just posted online another of those articles trying to “analyze” and negate opposition to mining by some of Canada’s native peoples–i.e., those who have been in the country probably since at least the beginning of the Holocene. Here is the final crescendo of the article:
Like Kosovo, freedom for Quebec and a flourishing mining industry
Posted in Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), Mining history, North America, tagged civil war, freedom, French, independence, Kosovo, mining, Quebec, slavery, tax on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kosovo has declared itself independent and most right-thinking nations have recognized its independence. Except it seems Russia and Canada. Both are scared to recognize the right of peoples (small nations) within their borders to be independent. I have been a Canadian for over twenty-five years and all that time lots of people in Quebec have been [...]
Mining Africa’s mine corruption for profits and pleasure
Posted in Africa, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, Law (Mining), People, tagged Africa, Carnegie Minerals, corruption, Gambia, mining, South Africa, Zuma on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A fine first day in California, although some pretty depressing news and views from mining Africa–but then corruption and incompetence in Africa is so routine I hesitate to write about the common-place, for it is so common. Seems to me if you choose to invest or work in mines in Africa, you must be prepared to take [...]
Leadville spins the acid mine drainage circle–how not to manage a disaster
Posted in acid mine drainage, Mining history, tagged acid mine drainage, acid rock drainade, environmental impact, Leadville, mining, seepage, tunnel, water quality on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday morning free advice: if you are reading one of those books or papers on managment and you see one of those figures involving a circle of activity, I recommend that you put the book down and flee. You surely know the kind of figure I mean. There is generally a circle that is divided into [...]
American Gladiators head across the border to work in the Canadian mining industry
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, North America, People, tagged American Gladiators, First Nations, Glenn Beck. CNN, illegal immigration, jobs, mining, Oil sands, salaries on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Normally I do not watch TV; except for many movies on DVD. But tonight I am somewhere in a tiny town off I5 in California and turned for entertainment to CNN and the Glenn Beck show. I like him as he brings out the worst of my Libertarian instincts. Tonight he suggested a solution to [...]
Movie mining at THOTTBOT: smelt and forge elementium
Posted in Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, People, tagged BHP, California, elementium, mountaintop miniing, Rio Tinto, Thottbot on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Friday morning and the mining-related web is awash with reports of impacts on boreal forests and mountaintops. Or maybe you can still get excited about Rio Tinto versus BHP–or is it still BHP versus Rio Tinto? My advice: forget all that repetitive stuff. Rather go to the mining site call THOTTBOT. Here you can indulge [...]
Death by guns or uranium: in Virginia you can choose
Posted in Community relations, health and safety, Uranium, tagged Coal on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The following news report almost requires no comment. Unless you yield to the temptation and ask the obvious: will guns or uranium kill more Virginians in the future? Here is the report–I promise this is how it reads–all I have done is cut out one redundant word. RICHMOND – The Virginia Senate voted today to approve [...]
Stupid, incompetent, and wicked to the last drop: is Marathon Mining really guilty?
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, drilling, Uranium on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is most un-American to characterize people by group labels. Everybody is supposed to be as equal. The Constitution only says that we all have equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is not the same as being equal. We really must face the fact that many people are stupid, incompetent, or downright wicked. A [...]
An acid test for mining the United Nations for fresh insight and information; do not replicate the International Network for Acid Prevention
Posted in acid mine drainage, People on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few extracts relevant to mining from the recently published United Nations Development Group Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, February 2008.
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