Very little news on the web about the opening of the Kensington Mine, near Juneau, Alaska this week. (more…)
Archive for September, 2010
Kensington Mine, Alaska opens officially
Posted in environmental, Gold, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), Mining history, Tailings, tagged Alaska, greens creek mine, Juneau, Kensington mine, lake, Pebble Mine, Tailings on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
BC Mine Reclamation: Kemess Wins Award
Posted in British Columbia, environmental, North America, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged Kemess, Reclamation, Tailings on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Alberta Premier may say of the Suncor Pond 1 transformation to Wapisiw Lookout that it makes him proud to be an Albertan. I wondered if the BC Premier feels the same about the Kemess Mine Tailings Impoundment. Here is an extended quote from the 2010 Reclamation Symposium Award Speech as delivered in Courtenay BC on 22nd September 2010 by Carla Fraser, Chari, BC Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation. (e-mail me if you would like the full speech.) (more…)
Pledge to America: kill MSHA’s mine tailings study
Posted in Law (Mining), North America, Tailings, tagged MSHA, pledge america, Tailings on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you have not yet sent in your comments to MSHA on how to make dams at metal and non-metal mines safer, time is running out. This hit my e-mail last week: (more…)
Laywers and Immigrants in Mining
Posted in Jobs and Salaries, Law (Mining), North America, Oil sands, tagged Fort McMurray, immigrant, Oil sands on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Flying into Fort McMurray, I chatted to the lawyer sitting next to me. He got his degree at the University of British Columbia, worked awhile for a law firm serving the mining industry, took a post with the Federal Government in Ottawa dealing with Kyoto Treat (“we should never have signed it.”), and was now on his way to investigate implementation of immigration laws as they affect the oil sands mining industry. (more…)
Opera Week in Review: Lillian Alling, La Gazzetta, and La Pietra Del Paragone
Posted in British Columbia, opera, tagged das rheingold, Falstaff, juan diego florez, la gazzetta, la pietra del paragone, lillian alling, oprea, sex, Verdi on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the pre-production discussion of the opera. I subsequently attended the opera and write my views at this link. Nevertheless the following is still interesting and relevant.
CBC radio is trumpeting the premier of a new Canadian opera on the 16th October in Vancouver. The opera is Lillian Alling, the true story of a Russian woman who undertakes to walk from New York back home to Russia. Lillian Alling walked west, came up through Vancouver and went further north, where she was arrested for carrying a gun. In 1927 a woman from New York with a gun no doubt set BC a-fretting. We are told she was last seen boarding a ship across the Bering Straight.
Weekend Mining Reading on Marine Tailings and on European Tailings Management
Posted in Europe, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged disposal, european waste management, marine tailings, Waste Rock on September 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A short posting to recommend some weekend reading. If you go to this link, you will find under the heading New on TechnoMine two newly posted documents: (more…)
Wapisiw Lookout: The First Reclaimed Oil Sand Tailings Impoundment
Posted in Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged Oil sands, reclaimation, Reclamation, Suncor, tailngs, wpisiw lookout on September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For years we have watched as the bulldozers and backhoes laboured to fill in and shape the topography. Today they are done and the landscape is rolling and green, with small creeks meandering amongst boulder clusters and bird-nesting sites. Pond 1 at the Suncor oil sands mine is officially reclaimed and the Alberta Premier today attended the official opening ceremony. He said it make him proud to be an Albertan to see what has been achieved. (more…)
Mining’s Role in the Australian Economy
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Jobs and Salaries, tagged Australia, economy, mining on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At this link is a ten-page paper entitled Structural Change in the Australian Economy. It makes for interesting reading if you care about the role and contributions of mining to the Australian economy. Here is just one paragraph that sums it up: (more…)
Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve
Posted in British Columbia, tagged conservation, North Vancouver, reserve, seymour on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One hesitates to name the place. To do so might make it more popular, thereby making it more busy. Right now it is lightly used and thus one can travel miles without encountering anyone, except maybe another lonely cyclist. I refer to that jewel of North Vancouver, the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. (more…)
Zimbabwe Mining Investment and Other Weekend Highs
Posted in brandy, California, Investing & Finance, mining, tagged dagga, investment, marijuana, Zimbabwe on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes you just have to shake your head in disbelief. You must wonder how can these people say what they say with a straight face.
Let us start with the amazing news that the California alcohol industry is opposing legalization of marijuana, or dagga as we used to call it in South Africa. Part of the report I read goes: (more…)
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