Word has just come in that the folk organizing the conference Tailings and Mine Waste ’08 have just met. They have extended the deadline for submission of abstracts to this conference until mid-June and they are asking that papers come in by mid-July. This is a conference worth supporting, writing for, and attending. It [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Tailings and Mine Waste in Vail in Fall
Posted in Mining history, tagged conference, InfoMine, Linda Hinshaw, mining, Robertson Geoconsultants, Tailings, Vail, Waste Rock on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How not to earn $100,000 as a mining graduate
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged CostMine, income, journailst, mining, professor, salary, wages on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is it true that the salary of new mining graduates is $100,000 a year? Depends on whom you ask. Bragging professors tell you that it is true. Impressionable young journalists gush about high starting salaries in the mining industry. But those who take time to ferret out the numbers disagree. They say it is no [...]
Mining the colonies to support Queen Victoria—-and drugs and ugly houses
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged earthquake, Goldcorp, liquefaction, mining, Queen Victoria, Vancouver on May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday was Queen Victoria day in Canada. Let me belatedly celebrate the old lady by ruminating on the glories of empire, resource development in the colonies, and the benefits that accrue to the politicians, businessmen, and priests of the ruling class. On Sunday I rode along the dikes of the Fraser River past wealth unimaginable, [...]
Red Chris mine in court to fight MiningWatch Canada–I am off fishing
Posted in Enviromental, tagged EcoJustice, Joan Kuyek, MiningWatch, Red Chris, The Tyee on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday we “celebrate” Queen Victoria’s birthday–how quaint! But is it a holiday and so no more blog posting until Tuesday. Meanwhile one last link to a fascinating article in the Tyee on the Red Chris Mine approval process. No comment from me: just access and read and fume.
If they stop mining in Alaska, is gay marriage next? Ask Bob Gillam.
Posted in Gold, Human relations and mining, tagged Alaska, Anglo American, Bob Gillam, California, gay marriage, mining, Pebble Mine on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Funny the things that get people and societies upset and activistic. The Alaska Assembly, meeting in Juneau, has just passed a resolution opposing the “clean water” initiatives that would in effect kill the Pebble Mine,affect Anglo American’s profits, and eventually turn Alaska into a non-mining state. Alaska would become like Montana: a place for only the [...]
CIM on Innovation in Mining: get the brightest from south of the equator in the room
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CIM. Edmonton, innovation, mining, quality, research, value engineering on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Innovation in Mining was the topic of the last session I attended at the CIM Edmonton Conference. I have written extensively about what was said in the session at this link.
Sausages and holes in the ground: BC Mining Week fairs well on slippery grass
Posted in Community relations, North America, tagged Art Gallery, BC Mining Week, mining, Vancouver on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On wet, squishy grass unlikely to survive the frenetic feet of hundreds of school kids, are pitched the tents of the BC Mining Week Community Fair. In front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. When I visited yesterday, there were kids everywhere: grabbing plastic bags and filling them with rocks, pebbles, mineral specimens, crayons, coloring books, [...]
Billion dollar mining bonanza: Sudbury mines belong to the Whitefish First Nation?
Posted in First Nations, Law (Mining), tagged Atikameksheng Anishnawbek, mining, Petahtegoose, Robinson Huron Treaty, Sudbury, whitefish lake first nation on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At $1.64 billion per person, this is surely the biggest claim ever in Canada. When I returned to Canada a few years back, I was assured that Canada is not litigious like the US. Seems those who told me that are wrong. I repeat, this claim is for $1.64 billion per person. The announcement [...]
Ontario versus the Indians: your law versus my law–and we all fall down
Posted in Law (Mining), tagged Algonquin. Aboriginal, Fight Club, Indian, law, mining, Ontario, philosophy, Robert Lovelace on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From an Aboriginal I know and respect. He forwarded me the e-mail repeated below from the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty: From: dmcguinty@premier.gov.on.ca Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:17:37 -0400 Conversation: An e-mail from the Premier of Ontario Subject: An e-mail from the Premier of Ontario Thank you for writing to me regarding the incarceration of [...]
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