We read of illegal miners in South Africa slipping down the shaft to rework the old workings. Then hundreds die when things go wrong. We read of Zimbabwe police killing illegal diamond miners to get control of the workings for Grace Mugabe. Now we read that the shootings at the Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg Mine are motivated by a fight for control [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Illegal Side-Bar Mining for Procreation
Posted in About the news, Gold on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Color of Australian Mining
Posted in About the news, Uranium on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Why is it considered so fashionable to tour Australia in preference to touring the United States or Canada? That question has perpetually confounded me as one friend after another proclaims in high tones that, while they have never seen the southwest of Colorado or the Canadian Rockies, they desire with all their hearts to go to Australia.
Mining support for the Assembly of First Nations
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Laboucane of Ripple Effects sent me an e-mail in which he raises the interesting questions about who is giving money to the candidates for election as Grand Chief of the Canadian Assembly of First Nations.
EPA to make miners pay for cleanup of bankrupt mines
Posted in About the news, decomissioning on July 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It is hardly a secret in the mining industry that no mines have the money to cleanup the site after mining ends. See the past proceedings of the Australian Center for Geomechanics on Mine Closure if you doubt me. With AIG and their crazy insurance mania down the tube, it is unlikely any of the insurance [...]
Olympic Opera
Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One opera that will not be performed next year in Vancouver during the winter Olympics is L’Olimpiade by Baldassare Galuppi. Dating from 1741 and many performances in Venice, this is the story of two young men who cheat to win at the Olympics. Their win sets off a storm of confused love, shrill berating by girlfriends, [...]
?Sarah Palin to join Giustra, Clinton, and Jean Chretien as mining advocate?
Posted in brandy on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is all over the news channels that the former Canadian prime minister, Jean Chretien, will soon join Ivanhoe Mines as an “international adviser.” Depending on whom you voted for in the old days, you may now elect to increase your shareholding in Ivanhoe, or sell as fast as you can. Of course, your former political [...]
Richard II and lonely mining geologists & farmers
Posted in People on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Somedays just pack more punch. Yesterday began with the birth of my seventh grandchild (tenth if you include those by marriage). She is the forth granddaughter. The day ended with a performance of Richard II at Bard on the Beach. Inbetween, I wrote a report proving you can recover seepage from beneath a tailings impoundment, thereby avoiding [...]
Canadian Mexico Embassy Mining
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a true story. The names, places, and commodities are changed to protect the guilty. Other facts are essentially correct. Two cultured young men, both Canadian geologists, met on a far island. The one, a driving force of energy, worked for the mining company. The other, calm and persuasive, worked for a consultant. They reckoned they [...]
Mining mining-blogs
Posted in blogs on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This repetitive title means just what it says: you can mine (get stuff) from the blogs on mining (the act of getting minerals out of the ground). At my age I don’t much care for getting stuff–I seem to have too much of it already. As one critic put it: “Jack, all you need for [...]
Mining Africa with Obama and the ANC–the tears of the tyrant
Posted in Africa, Human relations and mining on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama is visiting “Africa.” Sort of like visiting Disneyland and saying you saw all of the United States. A few sad tears at the castle fill in for substantive dialogue or statements about Mugabe and Zimbabwe. Or today for the ANC which is debating the nationalization of South Africa’s mines.
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