A note to end the day: here is a link to a blog on urban architecture where there is a full and fascinating look at the Russian Mirny Diamond Mine. This is new to me and I link to it so that you may read it if it is new to you.
Archive for December, 2008
The Mirny Diamond Mine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Diamond, mining, mirny, russia on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mining bailout from the conservatives
Posted in About the news, Gold, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, tagged bailout, Canada, Conservatives, Cuba, Gold, Harper, mining, nickel, spott, Sudbury on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now that Christmas (Holiday Season if that is your style) and bailouts are synonymous, let us greet the mining bailout with happy bells. No I am not making all this up. That Canadian national rag, the Globe and Mail has a headline news story that promises mining bailout. Well it seems to. Here [...]
Oil Sand Tailings Conference coda and mining ERCB regulations for meaning
Posted in Law (Mining), Oil sands, Tailings, tagged conference, ERCB, Houlihan, Oil sands, regulations, Tailings on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At the First International Oil Sands Tailings Conference held in early December 2008 in Edmonton, Richard Houlihan of the Alberta Energy Resource Conservation Board (ERCB) talked about proposed new ERCB regulations for oil sands tailings disposal. Let me in this long posting comment and offer my perspective. Adult content warning: the following may offend.
Sicilian vespers for Sudbury mining
Posted in Community relations, First Nations, Jobs and Salaries, North America, opera, tagged crisis, Cuba, david leadbeater, mining, nickel, Sudbury on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The boom and bust of the price of nickel is best seen in a chart. My computer skills do not permit me to shown the fifteen-year price of nickel. Try the link or use the many features of CommoditiesMine to produce your own graph. Whichever way you look at it, the price of nickel spiked [...]
Aboriginal involvement in mining EAs and IBAs
Posted in Enviromental, First Nations, Gold, Law (Mining), tagged British Columbia, EA, IBA, mining, Tahltan on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A brief note on a thesis worth reading. The thesis is by Courtney Fidler and was written as part of her degree in master of applied science in mining engineering at the University of British Columbia. The title is Aboriginal Participation in Mineral Development: Environmental Assessment and Impact and benefit Agreements. Here is the abstract:
Jobs in oil sands mining and tailings
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, Tailings, tagged Fort McMurray, jobs, mining, Oil sands, Tailings on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The conference on oil sands tailings is over and the scientists and engineers are back to solving real-time problems. They are at work; the question is do they have work and a job for you? Turning to CareerMine, I find nineteen jobs for the keywords oil sands tailings. There are positions advertised with Suncore, Syncrude, Shell, and [...]
Oil sand tailings seepage to fill more than a Toronto stadium, reports Globe and Mail
Posted in About the news, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, Uranium, tagged exfiltration, Globe and Mail, infiltration, leakage, Oil sands, seepage, Tailings, UMTRA, Uranium on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
During a Q&A session at the First International Oil Sands Tailings Conference currently underway in Edmonton, somebody asked Ed McRoberts of AMEC “Please comment on seepage and leakage from the tailings impoundments.” This morning the Globe and Mail wrote about a report from Environmental Defence that states that leakage from the oil sands tailings impoundments [...]
Oil sands tailings conference and industry advances to benefit the impatient
Posted in Enviromental, North America, Oil sands, Tailings, tagged clay, cyclone, muds, Oil sands, sand, silt, Spain, Tailings, thickner on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A report on this morning’s proceedings at the First International OIl Sands Tailings Conference: good, detailed presentations on the science that controls the engineering and politics of oil sands tailings disposal. Let me try to sketch in layman’s terms the fundamental issues. The soil that contain the oil is excavated and treated to recover the oil. Let [...]
Oil sands tailings conference covers mining, history, and technology
Posted in About the news, Geotechnical, North America, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged ALbion Sands, Edmonton, Horizon, mining, Oil sands, Suncor, Syncrude, Tailings on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At the website www.ostrf.com are (or soon will be) Powerpoint presentations from this morning’s session of the First International Oil Sands Tailings Conference, currently underway in Edmonton, Alberta. I recommend them to anyone interested in the history and development of mining and technology. As a geotechnical engineer, my instinct is to go with Ed McRoberts of [...]
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