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Pacific Rim Mining killings, Canadian decency, and the heart of darkness

Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Latin America, People, tagged , , , , on December 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »

   The time around Christmas and New Year is as good a time as any to kill an opponent.  Most folk are off with family or on holiday and are less likely than normal to be around to comment or protest.  Thus this is a good time to kill, assassinate as some call it, an opponent of [...]

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St. Barbara, patron saint of mining hard at work in Detroit

Posted in California, Church, health and safety, opera, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

     I collect Disney villians.  On the collection shelf are plastic characters including that nasty lion uncle from the Lion King, the fat lady from the Mermaid, the cruel one who stole the puppies, and many more.  Now there is another, a thin fellow from The Princess and the Frog.  He is into vodoo in New [...]

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Mining the spirit of Lego Christmas

Posted in California, mining, tagged , , , , on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

   The curmudgeon in me says thank goodness Christmas has come and gone.  Now we can return to a sort of normal as we wait out  the New Year.  I am in Orange County with the kids and have just returned from a nine-mile bike ride along the beach.  The sun was setting over the five [...]

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Mining Jokes for full glasses and reserves

Posted in British Columbia, People, tagged , , on December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

   As befits the weekend before Christmas, we attended two parties, one in a West Vancouver and one in Whistler.  Both were well-stocked with people working in the mining industry.  The short story that received the most votes for capturing the feeling of the current times was this one:

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Weekend reading for miners (not minors)

Posted in blogs, British Columbia, tagged , , , on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

    Friday reading recommendations: Anything by Alistair MacCloud.  One or more of the short stories at the Whistler Writers Group.  

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Hawthorne Gold, the Cassiar Gold Project, and Bryan Farbridge, mining engineering student

Posted in British Columbia, Gold, People, tagged , , , , on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

   A fine PowerPoint presentation is available at this link.   I was privileged to be present when Bryan Farbridge, a student in the mining and mineral exploration program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) made the presentation.  In the presentation he shows slides of his 2009 student work at the Hawthorn Gold’s Cassiar Gold Camp. 

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Platinex, $5 million, and the perils of Bill C-300

Posted in First Nations, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), North America, tagged , , , , , , on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

   The Toronto Sun reports re Platinex and a $5 million dollar payout from the Ontario government to settle a law suite:

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The best and worst mining stories of the weekend, 2009, and the decade

Posted in About the news, Latin America, Law (Mining), opera, People, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

      Christmas begun in earnest this weekend.  I braved the minus thirty-four degrees of Edmonton to attend The Nutcracker with mining folk.  Then supper at a fancy restaurant and much talk of the past decade—the first of the 2000s and soon to be over and done with.  On Sunday night to a party to sing carols [...]

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The Mining Blog Australia: Still for Sale?

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, blogs, Coal, tagged , , , , on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

   I have just added to my blogroll a link to The Mining Blog.  It hails from Australia and  looks at the Australian mining industry.  No indication of who writes it.  And not many postings.  But those that are there are interesting.  From last week we have one comparing mining practices in some Australian and some [...]

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Geotechnical software for mining: Novotech at thirty

Posted in People, Software, tagged , , on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

    Still on the theme of thirty-year olds in the work place.  (See my blog posting below this one for an extended rumination on the topic of thirty-year olds in mining.)  This afternoon two thirty-year olds came marketing.  I must admire what they are doing.  They are setting up and marketing a software company that specializes in geotechnical [...]

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