Yesterday was a feast of entertainment. With the grandkids to see Shrek 3 in the morning; and to the Los Angeles opera’s Das Rheingold in the evening. The similarities between the movie and the opera were greater than the differences. Both tell tales of human emotion by way of gods, monsters, exaggerated villains, and [...]
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Das Rheingold, Shrek 3, and Mining Opera
Posted in opera, tagged das reingold, das rheingold, LA opera, shrek on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday Mining Sermon: Perth, Gallowai Stanfield, and Bill C-300
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Church, Investing & Finance, tagged Bill C-300, gallowai, perth, ross stanfield, sermon on May 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hence from Perth on a gruelling flight to LAX. A flight designed to tire you out if you need more than four hours a night sleep, even though you theoretically get four from Perth to Sydney and twelve from Sydney to Los Angeles. At least you have plenty of time to contemplate the state of [...]
Aussie mining backflip to tax the mind
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, tagged Australia, mining, rudd, tax on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Still in Perth and fascinated by the fights over taxation of the Australian mining industry. Many pages of the local newspapers continue to be devoted to the fight. Sadly there is little clarity or consensus building. The headline in the national newspaper is Rudd to backflip on mining rate. Rudd is the national prime minister [...]
More Australian Upside-Down Mining Agony
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, consulting, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, tagged Australia, invest, mining, tax on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Another day beating the bushes in Perth, mostly reading the newspapers and talking to consultants to the mining industry about the proposed new 40 % tax on mining. The arguments degenerate into the absurd with government ministers justifying their proposal to impose new taxes on the basis of outdated reports from obscure USA universities, [...]
Australian mining tax: investor advice from the trenches
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, tagged Australia, invest, mining, tax on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A good friend in the Australian mining industry says the proposed new tax on the mining industry will be a good thing. He says it will slow down the mining industry and that will be good, for things are still so hot and there is still such a skills shortage, that anything that gives the [...]
Tax mining, Australia upside down style
Posted in consulting, Investing & Finance, opera, tagged Australia, mining, opera house, sydney, tax on May 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today I arrived in Sydney, Australia. You know this is a strange place immediately: it takes five minutes to get through immigration and one hour and five minutes to get through customs. Enter the USA or Canada and the time is spent getting through immigration and they wave you through customs. Australia seems not [...]
Irony or insight? Oil, gas, mining, poverty, and jails
Posted in About the news, First Nations, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, tagged aboriginal, Fort McMurray, poverty, ripple effects on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Every now and then, I get an e-mail from Ripple Effects Ltd in Fort McMurray. Here is a copy of the latest which is a collection of seemingly unrelated new items. I am not so sure about the unrelated part. As I read it, there is sadness and an insight into why there is poverty [...]
Marlin Mine Human Rights Assessment
Posted in Community relations, consulting, Gold, health and safety, Human relations and mining, Latin America, Law (Mining), tagged crack, earthquake, Goldcorp, Guatemala, houses, human rights, marlin mine on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At this link is the Executive Summary of the Human Rights Assessment of Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine. The full report does not yet appear to be available; although there is a promise it will be when the Spanish translation is available.
Sunday Sermon: Family and the Faith & Fury of Mining. Or impious reflections on Guatemala, Marlin, and Goldcorp
Posted in Church, consulting, Enviromental, First Nations, Gold, Investing & Finance, Latin America, Mining history, opera, tagged ballet, coyote, drugs, el salitre, Goldcorp, Guatemala, Gunoud, marlin, opera, Pentacostalism, religion, Roman Catholic, Romeo and Julie, Romeo and Juliet, sermon, United Church of Canada on May 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Tomorrow is Sunday, so we might as well write a sermon on truth.
Guatemala mining by night
Posted in consulting, Investing & Finance, Latin America, tagged Guatemala, investment, mining, NI 43-101 on May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Any city seen by night from on high is impressive. Guatemala City is no exception, From the ninth floor of the Mercure Hotel you see the mountains to the left and the park and gleaming high-rises to the right with a street and fast, out-of-control cars weaving across lanes of traffic.
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