Don Carlo is the grandest of grand opera. You are hit in the guts by the power of the music. You are assailed by the story: the horrors of theocracy and the glories of friendship and love. You shudder at parental deceit and despair at the folly of youth. You grow angry at the logic [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Make tough mining decisions by watching grand opera, Don Carlo incarnate
Posted in Church, Law (Mining), opera, tagged Covent garden, Don Carlo, EPA, gay marriage, law, morality, opera, RI/FS on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Weekend reading on uranium mining and groundwater
Posted in North America, Reclamation, Uranium, tagged groundwater, mining, southwest hydrology, Uranium on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The December issue of Soutwest Hydrology deals with groundwater and uranium. Here is how they introduce the subject: Groundwater was involved in the formation of many large uranium ore deposits, and increasingly groundwater (fortified with other compounds) is being used to mine them using in-situ leaching methods. Uranium mining in the 20th century left a [...]
Relfections on cuts in mining and elsewhere
Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries, tagged economy, income, mining, poverty, professor on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Has the world really changed that much in the last week, month, year? On Saturday I supped with very old friends, people who like me survived the 1982/3 mining crash, a time when twenty percent of engineers in Vancouver were out of work and everyday brought new cuts in production. Now it seems those times have [...]
Tailings & Mine Waste ’08 PowerPoint Presentations
Posted in Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged conference, PowerPoint, presentation, Tailings and Mine Waste, Vail on November 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Sunday is a quiet time and an opportunity to look at some of the PowerPoint presentations from last month’s conference in Vail, Colorado on Tailings & Mine Waste ’08. Here is a link to a list of the presentations that are now available in the InfoMine Library. We must thank the presenters and the conference organizers [...]
Grassroots attacks on Canadian miners and other untruths
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, Congo, Korea, mining, Natural history museum, Smithsonian, The Dominion on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Dominion, News from the Grassroots is a blog that has just run a month of stories on the Canadian mining industry. They are mostly critical: the usual that the oil sands are dirty, that Canadian mining is to blame for the war in the Congo, and stories about opposition to mining by tribes from [...]
Canadian mining travel becomes easier for thin people
Posted in About the news, Law (Mining), tagged California, fat, gay marriage, mining, plane, two for the price of one on November 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I travel a great deal by plane for pleasure and for mining. Thus I am delighted and dismayed by another of those idiotic rulings by a Canadian court. They truly come up with unique nonsense. You recall the verdict that drug addicts had a right to continue to work in dangerous jobs on mines. Then [...]
Mining in sign language
Posted in communication, Community relations, tagged american sign language, fort belvoir, mining on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fort Belvoir in Virginia is a large army base. Today we drove the fall woods that cover much of the base to a small school for the military kids. In a large classroom, mothers convened for the baby sign-language class. All but one of the ten kids has normal hearing. All were younger than about two-years [...]
New mining research institute in Arizona
Posted in About the news, tagged Arizona, institute, mining, research on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Arizona gets a new mining research insititute. We have been reading about this for the past few days hoping to find out what they will research. Here is one brief description: Mary Poulton, lead researcher at the institute, has identified a wide range of projects to tackle, from water use to simulators for safety training to [...]
Australian mining company sponsors Somalia pirates
Posted in About the news, oil, opera, tagged Penzance, pirate, Puntland, Range Resources, Somalia on November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Miners supporting pirates with cash payments. Seems hard to believe. But the news is out that an Australian mining company is doing just that. Read on. Books on pirates glorify the romance of the free spirit and the rough life. Movies and musicals do likewise. Recall the wonderful Pirates of Penzance, in which it turns [...]
Is MSHA a modern mining Pharaoh or merely Lucrezia Borgia?
Posted in About the news, Coal, Law (Mining), opera, tagged American Coal Company, Kennedy Center, Lucrezia Borgia, mining, MSHA on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two tales of conflict in mining, one from long ago and far away and one from today’s news. The first is of biblical proportions, as the report tells: An international team of archaeologists may have uncovered the copper mines owned and operated by the biblical King Solomon during a dig at Khirbat en-Nahas, an ancient mining [...]
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