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Mining jobs a location-specific opportunity

Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries, tagged , , , , on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

   This morning’s Globe & Mail reports on mining job losses at Myra Falls on Vancouver Island. A company spokesman said: While we view this as a temporary suspension, our challenge is that we’ve seen the price of zinc move from 76 cents to 48 cents in a month. Down in Salt Lake City representatives [...]

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No prayers for Arizona copper mining

Posted in Church, Copper, tagged , , , , , on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This quote from prayerbeacon, a blog that appears to list things Christians should pray for regarding the upcoming election.  The site lists statistics and associated “prayer points” by state.  This is a short statistic about Arizona: The state’s per capita income is $27,232, 39th in the U.S. Arizona had a median household income of $46,693 making [...]

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Uranium mining the moon, the Grand Canyon, and Alaska

Posted in About the news, Enviromental, Global Warming, North America, Oil sands, Uranium, tagged , , , , , on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Find the errors in this picture?  The small company from whom we rent offices in Vancouver has recently shut down its uranium mine in Colorado and put thirty miners out of work.  Yet the blogs today are full of news about planned mining of uranium on the moon, besides the Grand Canyon, in Alaska, and besides [...]

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Cannon Mine, tailings, and Wenatchee

Posted in Gold, Mining history, North America, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged , , , on October 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Just a short note to turn your attention to an article extolling the Cannon Mine in Wenatchee, WA and its tailings impoundment.  The article seems to be an attempt to support the reopening of the Idaho-Maryland mine in California. 

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Tractors and hippies in poor farming counties: Iowa, Fairfield, and Allis-Chalmers

Posted in About the news, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The fan in the upper story has been turning at full speed for two years.  In Van Buren County, Iowa I ascended the stairs to the upper story of a double-story house to see this fan spinning away unawares.  The inhabitants of the house have lived their lives for the past two year on the ground floor.  They had not [...]

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Mined metal, corn, and rubber

Posted in About the news, tagged , , , , , on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday in Mt Vernon, Iowa.  Not to see a politician, but to visit a friend who has just moved into a huge, new facility selling John Deere farm equipment.  No mining for miles around, but some of the same issues bedevil the dealership.

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Denver mining accolades for Nilex and Enterprise

Posted in About the news, tagged , , , , , on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Down an icy road from Vail and the conference to Denver where two companies impressed me greatly.   Neither paid me to write the following—in fact neither even knows I am writing the following.

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Tailings Life Cycle Assessment

Posted in About the news, Tailings, tagged , , , , , on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

  The most forward thinking speculation at Tailings & Mine Waste ’08 was by Dirk Van Zyl.  He joked about his fast-written paper that suggests that somebody seeking a PhD in tailings and mine waste management could do no better than apply the concepts and methods of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to tailings impoundments. For those [...]

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Tailing & Mine Waste ’08 Best Paper

Posted in Waste Rock, tagged , , , , on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My nomination for the best paper and best presentation at the conference Tailings & Mine Waste ’08 is Gold Quarry North Waste Rock Facility Slide Investigation and Stabiliization by R. J Sheets and E.E. Bates both of Newmont Mining Corporation at the Curlin Surface Mine Operations, Carlin, Nevada.   Here is the paper’s abstract:

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Tailiings & Mine Waste ’08 Redux

Posted in Geotechnical, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged , , , , , on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The conference on Tailings & Mine Waste ’08 is done.  Two days of technical papers lead one to identify these changes in the theory and practice of mine waste in the thirty years the conference has been held: Liners for impoundments are now accepted as good practice; no longer do we hear how liners are [...]

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