A short piece to kick off the weekend. Here is a link to a posting in the Canadian Lawyer Magazine about Lee Harrs who left a standard law firm to work as a lawyer in the mining industry. No comment is needed, other than that this article proves that mining is more diverse than even the [...]
Archive for May, 2008
A tale of a mining lawyer
Posted in Law (Mining), People, tagged law, lawyer, mining. Lee Harrs on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kennedy as mining expert offers advice to Ontario and Indians
Posted in About the news, tagged Indian, Kennedy, mining, Ontario on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shamelessly trading on his famous name, a junior member of the Kennedy clan who is a lawyer working for The Natural Resource Defence Council has sent a “terse” letter to the Premier of Ontario telling him to snap to attention and change the 1800s law that enables Vancouver-based mining juniors to go onto aboriginal-claimed lands to [...]
How to grow rich attending conferences on mining tailings and waste rock dumps
Posted in Investing & Finance, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged conference, Rich Kaiser, silver falcon mining, Tailing & Mine Waste '08, Tailings, Vail, War Eagle on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here is a topic we may not see discussed at the October Vail Conference called Tailings & Mine Waste ’08: Reworking old tailings and waste rock dumps for economic value. The obvious questions is: should we call on them to have a whole workshop session devoted to the topic? I submit that such a session would be far [...]
Would you pay 12% more for non-mountaintop-mined energy?
Posted in Coal, tagged energy, mountaintop mining, North Carolina, Pricey Harrison on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pricey Harrison is a most appropriately named politician: she has just announced a move that would significantly increase the price of energy in North Carolina. There is no word yet whether Pricey’s high-priced bill will get the support of other state politicians. She was prompted to introduce the bill to ban the use in North Carolina [...]
The perfect conference: Tailings & Mine Waste ’08
Posted in Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged '08, conference, Diamond, heap leach pad, Linda Henshaw, mine waste, slimes dam, Tailings, Vail on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To be bold; to dream; to create the perfect conference. Nobody will do that, for perfection is not the goal of conferences. So I dream of the perfect conference on tailings and mine waste. No papers submitted by random authors. Only invited papers. Here are some, I would solicit:
Ecuador’s new mining law lauded–where to find the good news
Posted in Law (Mining), tagged Ecuador, law, mining on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a link to an interesting site I have not hitherto seen. Found it while searching for blog comments on Ecuador’s new mining law. Sadly my Spanish is no where good enough to read the law, but then if you are investing in mines in South American, no doubt you are fluent in that [...]
Mining is risky. Investing is even riskier. And the worst of all is to risk mine! How to avoid the high-flying confidence trickster
Posted in Investing & Finance, tagged fraud, investing, mining, plane, regulator, risk assessment on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A warning for travellers working for mining companies: don’t do important work on your computer in the plane. Yesterday I sat for three hours on a plane from Denver to DC. One row up and across the aisle was a middle-aged man and his computer screen in full, loud view. All the flight he worked on [...]
Appeal court restores sanity to Canadian drug use in mining
Posted in About the news, health and safety, Law (Mining), North America, safety, tagged Appeal Court, drug use, John Chiasson, Kellogg Brown Root, mining, Queen's bench, safety, Syncrude on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Alberta Court of Appeal recently overthrew a ruling by a lower court (the Queen’s Bench) that John Chiasson was the victim of discrimination when he was terminated by Kellogg Brown & Root – basically denied a job at Syncrude, for smoking cannabis. I have previously described the facts of this case and decried the silly ruling [...]
You’re kidding: mining the opposition for art
Posted in Law (Mining), tagged 1872 mining law, Pew campaign, responsible mining, senate on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Pew Campaign for Responsible Mining has three great posters. I downloaded and printed one and now it hangs in my office.
Tailings & Mine Waste ’08: Homer & Virgil for modern mining wisdom
Posted in acid mine drainage, tagged acid mine drainage, ARAR, conference, Hagee, mine waste, mining, Tailings, Vail on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I noted that the conference on Tailings and Mine Waste ’08 has extended the deadline for abstracts to mid-June and papers to mid-July. This being a blog and me being me, let me suggest some topics for papers.
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