The world must have been a scary place when the kimberlite pipes were spouting. In what is now Angola, at least 217 volcanoes were erupting to produce 160 pipes containing diamonds. This scenario, which occurred well before the Cambrian, makes current environmental change seem trivial. But then maybe it took a long, long [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Angola diamond mining as a metaphor for Los Angeles virility
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Angola, Cuba, Diamond, Los Angeles, mining, virility, war on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Angola diamond mining as a metaphor for Los Angeles virility
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Angola, Cuba, Diamond, Los Angeles, mining, virility, war on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The world must have been a scary place when the kimberlite pipes were spouting. In what is now Angola, at least 217 volcanoes were erupting to produce 160 pipes containing diamonds. This scenario, which occurred well before the Cambrian, makes current environmental change seem trivial. But then maybe it took a long, long [...]
1, 300, 500: the law of small things and big consequences in mining
Posted in Oil sands, tagged dead ducks, Obama, Oil sands, priest, Stelmach, Syncrude, the 300, Wright, Xerxes on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Funny how little things can have big consequences. We all know big things can have big consequences, but that is not my current point. Take for example Barack Obama and his pesky priest. How can you make a man president when he sits for twenty years listening to that hateful sermon? One little priest spouting his [...]
Mining the last mining-newspaper for the final nugget
Posted in About the news, tagged American Scientist, American Thinker, Dead Sea, Golbe and Mail, Huffington Post, mining, newspapers, The New Yorker, Tyee on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BlogHerald reports that in the past six months U.S. Newspaper circulation has dropped a further 3.6 per cent. This is primarily because more people are turning to online resources. I do not know the numbers for this blog, but I bet the hits and visitors have gone up by more than 3.6 per cent in [...]
PomsInOz an unhappy hunting ground for mining jobs in Australia or Vancouver
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged forum, jobs, mining, pinhead, Pomsinoz, salary, tin man, Vancouver, Western Australia, work on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The problem with discussion forums on the web is the sheer triviality of it all—unless you are the initiator of the conversation, when the topic is dead serious. Below are extracts from PomsInOz (the English in Australia) and a discussion on mining ruining Vancouver. I repeat the questions and comments without edit. They provide a unique and [...]
World Day for Safety and Health at Work–and in mining
Posted in health and safety, tagged health and safety, International Labour Organization, mining, World Day for Safety and Health at Work on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the official World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The International Labour Organization is the sponsoring organization, as it has been since 2001.
Uranium mining as the only way to limit global warming–still it is pretty cold in British Columbia
Posted in Uranium, tagged 1972 Mining Law, AME BC, British Columbia, Global Warming, mining, moratorium, Saskatchewan, Uranium on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Two ladies suited up to go uranium mining in East Germany. And from the AME BC, a news release worthy of comment: British Columbia’s mineral exploration sector is seeking clarification regarding a provincial government announcement that it will not support the exploration and development of uranium in British Columbia. Safe, environmentally sound uranium exploration is [...]
Bellavisa mine heap leach pad et al. moves again
Posted in Heap leach, tagged Bellavista, collapse, Costa Rica, failure, heap leach pad, mine, Mirmar, Sonia Torres on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bellavista is a common name for beaches, condominium complexes, and estates in Costa Rica. It is also the name of a mine. Above is a picture of a beach by the name of Bellavista. For lots of pictures of the mine and its story go to this link. In Spanish here is a report on [...]
Women in Mining: 2004 Conference Report
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged International Conference, mining Janice Molineau, women in mining on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wish this were just a joke; but it is a fact. Whenever I post anything on this blog about women in mining, two things happen: I get many quiet comments about being sexist; and The number of page views increases dramatically. The number of page views also increases dramatically whenever I use keywords like [...]
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