The dike of a waste-holding pond at a power plant fails, moving houses off their foundation and spreading sludge far and wide. Here is a quote from one report: The 40-acre pond was used by the Tennessee Valley Authority to hold a slurry of ash generated by the coal-burning Kingston Steam Plant in Harriman, about [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Tenessee radio-active coal-ash slurry pond failure not a mining incident
Posted in About the news, Coal, North America, Tailings, Uranium, tagged coal ash, failure, Kingston Steam Plant, pond, radioactive, sludge, Tenessee, TVA on December 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Mining memories and Christmas for young and old
Posted in About the news, Mining history, tagged California, dragon, Iowa, memory, mining, politics, Queen, speech on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The snow is still deep and the car is still lost in the drifts; but it is Christmas day so there is no concern or urgency to dig it out. The daughters are preparing the large-meal. Up until now I have pretty much done the cooking as they fussed the kids. But just for this meal, [...]
SEASONS GREETINGS & MERRY CHRISTMAS & GOOD FAMILY TIME
Posted in About the news, tagged christmas, season, snow on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The snow continues unabated. All the kids are in town—except for one spouse who choose to come up late and is now faced with a long drive along snowy roads. It truly is a white Christmas, and so I say HAPPY CHRISTMAS, HOLIDAY SEASON, Celebration, or just family-gathering time according to your instincts, beliefs, and [...]
Gold mining thieves with vacuums seek goldens sands
Posted in About the news, tagged Bullard, forster, Gold, Merced County, mining, sand, thief on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As the holidays progress and people get to their destinations in spite of snow and ice, we pause to enjoy this story –OK we should not glorify the thief, but these two are so inept, we can but relish the comedy: Merced County sheriff’s deputies took two Chowchilla men into custody early Sunday on suspicion [...]
Oil sands tailings reclamation a 2008 mining success
Posted in North America, Oil sands, Reclamation, tagged conference, Gord McKenna, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One final triumph from the First International Oil Sands Tailings Conference: a link to the presentation by Gord McKenna of BGC Engineering on Landscape Design for Oil Sands Tailings.
Weekend Snow
Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, tagged depression, economics, snow, winter on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The weekend has been snow and more snow. We cannot get out of the townhouse and to the sights of the city. And the kids from Iowa cannot get in from Dallas where they are stranded by non-flights. I spent an extra night in Seattle as the Californians could not leave Long Beach due to [...]
Mining supports Obama’s Salazar
Posted in About the news, tagged colorado. oil shales, Department of the interior, Ken Salazar, mining on December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is good to see support from the National Mining Association for Obama’s pick to head the Interior Department, namely Senator Ken Salazar. I quote: Oil and mining interests praised Mr. Salazar’s record as a state official and as a senator, saying that he was not doctrinaire about the use of public lands for resource exploitation. [...]
Rio Tinto pulls out of Saudi mining
Posted in About the news, Europe, tagged aluminium, Body of Lies, DiCaprio, Mark Strong, Rio Tinto, Russell Crowe, Suadi on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night with the usual crews that likes Hollywood action movies, we went to see Body of Lies. In brief, great acting by Crowe and DiCaprio taking out the bad guys (terrorists) in Iraq and Jordan. It certainly aims to leave you believing that one more dead from that part of the world is a good [...]
Oil Sands Tailings Characterization
Posted in Oil sands, tagged Oil sands, Suncor, Tailings on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A short note to direct your attention to one of thePowerPoint presentations from the First International Oil Sand Tailings Conference. I am grateful to the presenter for allowing us to make this more readily available to a wider audience than will ever see the proceedings. The presentation is Application of Block Modeling to Suncor Tailings Characterizatiionby [...]
Martha Deacon to help Soweto women with Giustra’s mining money
Posted in About the news, People, tagged charity, Clinton, Giustra, Martha Deacon, PDAC, Soweto, women in mining on December 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Breaking the cycle of poverty is a noble aim and a laudable action. The instinct of rich Canadian women to do good is inevitably drawn to such “business” activities as making small loans to the otherwise dispossessed. They call it microlending. Here is the latest report on more noble action by rich ladies [...]
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