I can no longer resist commenting on the fall in metal prices that seems to be making a liar of every mining investment pundit. Here from InfoMine are some signals that things may be slowing down. We currently have eight geologists who analyze mining company data and post it in a database that is accessible [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Supercycle Bust II: stories from the mining industry
Posted in Church, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, tagged bust, investment, jobs, mining, salaries, Supercycle on August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mining vs cyanide. Obama vs McCain. Jared Polis vs Lincoln Navigator. The SUV always wins.
Posted in About the news, Church, Coal, Gold, Oil sands, Uranium, tagged Alaska clean water, Coal, Cyanide, Gold, Jarid Polis, McCain, mining, mountaintop mining, Navigator, Obama, Oil sands, Pebble Mine, politics, Uranium on August 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What does the November election in the United States hold for mining? There will be a new president, and maybe control of both houses will change. Will this be good or bad for mining? In this posting we look at current trends that hold a clue to the 2008 US mining scene as sculptured by the [...]
Sustainable mining is no longer sustainable–the oil sands verbal slip affects us all
Posted in About the news, communication, Oil sands, tagged ASA, development, Fort McMurray, mining, Oil sands, responsible mining, Shell, sustainable on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The front page of Fort McMurray Today carries a long article on the call by the U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that Royal Dutch Shell’s use of the word “sustainable” to describe their oil sands projects is both misleading and ambiguous. Here is a link to another good web report on the finding. They say:
Pebble Mine, Alaskan mining, and the hidden facts
Posted in Mining history, North America, Tailings, tagged Alaska, failure, Knight Piesold, mining, Pebble Mine, Tailings on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Pebble Mine in Alaska is a blogger’s delight. It is contentious, there is no correct answer, and it is making mining history. I have written extensively about it and collected my writings into a single document. Today another blog posting appeared attacking the the proposed mine. The topic is essentially Alaskans go to the [...]
Landfill mining: urban waste resources for recycling?
Posted in Mining history, tagged landfill, mining, OII, recycling, urban resources on August 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Landfill mining is superficially attractive. But before we get bombarded by articles expounding the virtues of landfill mining, let me burst a few bubbles. The idealistic wax enthusiastic about the amount of metal and plastic in landfills across the country. In theory if we could get at these resources, we would have a bonanza. But [...]
Mining Supercycle crashes? Blame evolution and all that
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, tagged finance, investment, mining, stuart kauffman, Supercycle on August 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Is the mining boom over? Are we descending into another of those times when the mining industry hangs on by the skin of its teeth? A time when miners and engineers and truck drivers loose their jobs and investors their shirts? We have seen it all before. In 1983 and again after that. It is [...]
Responsible mine closure–new toolkits from ICMM and Outokumpu
Posted in decomissioning, Enviromental, tagged closure, finance, ICMM, mine closure planning, mining, outokumpu on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From London and the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) comes their newest publication Planning for Integrated Mine Closure: Toolkit.
Energy savings for mining: inflate your tires?
Posted in Global Warming, tagged energy, Global Warming, Inproheat, mining, SubCom on August 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Everybody from President Bush to John McCain to Barack Obama is saying that you can reduce energy consumption by inflating your car tires. Individually, one car driver may reduce their monthly gas (petrol) bill. Collectively it may indeed result in the use of less gas. But as a way to solve the United State’s energy [...]
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