George Bernard Shaw called Rossini ”the supreme master of clap-trap.” Rossini wrote of Wagner: “He has great moments, and dull quarter hours.” No live opera or Met opera this weekend. We took solace in the DVD. First a life of Rossini and then, in anticipation of the Met broadcast, a cheap DVD of Le Comte Ory. [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Diamond Mining and Le Comte Ory
Posted in brandy, consulting, opera, tagged canadian north, comte ory, Diamond, first air, met opera, opera, rolling stone, Verdi, wagner on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Bill C-300 Fails: Reflections on Perfidy
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Law (Mining), North America, tagged Bill C-300, Canada, Liberal, NDP, star chamber on October 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The news is that the private member Bill C-300 failed to pass in the Canadian parliament yesterday. This bill would have allowed any agitator anywhere to accuse a Canadian mining company of anything that irritated the accuser; the bureaucrats in Ottawa would have judged; the mining company would have had no way to defend themselves; [...]
Mining Consultants — Too Small to Succeed, Too Big to Fail?
Posted in consulting, tagged consultant, Geotechnical, specialist on October 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Most mines engage consultants. Even the largest mines do not find it practical or economic to keep permanently on staff people to do those special, one-off projects that lead to new mines, efficient operation of existing mines, or close mines with a skeleton staff. Most mines needs the expertise that consultants have, but which it [...]
AngloAmerican waters Pebble Mine
Posted in acid mine drainage, environmental, Investing & Finance, North America, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged Anglo American, dry stack, filtered tailings, Pebble Mine, tailngs and mine waste 2010 on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The supply of water and protection of water quality are now key issues at mines. The level of activity and focus on water may be gauged by looking at the website of any consultant to the mining industry: without fail they feature a pretty young lady in front of a stream, a pond, or ocean [...]
History of South African Slimes Dam Engineers
Posted in Mining history, Tailings, tagged geoff blight, history, slimes dam, South Africa on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a link to a paper that I and a fellow author wrote for the conference on tailings and mine waste 2010. This is not the version published in the proceedings. Rather it is an updated version, now made more publically available. The paper seeks to record some of the many people who contributed to [...]
MET Opera and Boris Godunov
Posted in British Columbia, opera, tagged boris godunov, met opera, park tilford on October 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The sky was overcast; the chill of fall was in the air. The flowers in the Park & Tilford gardens besides the movie house are still in color and the horse chesnut trees in the Chinese garden are a brilliant orange. A perfect morning to settle into my regular seat, D1, and watch this morning’s projection [...]
Admissions of Mine Tailings Dam Failure
Posted in consulting, Mining history, Tailings, tagged bafokeng, de beers, failure, kimberly, merriespruit, slimes dam on October 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At the conference in Vail earlier this week, somebody at dinner said this: “I am sick of hearing people talk about other people’s tailings impoundment failures. Why can’t anyone stand up and say ‘this is why the dam I designed failed’?” [I hope I get the punctuation right.]
Tailings and Mine Waste 2010: The Conference In Review
Posted in consulting, environmental, Law (Mining), Mining history, Oil sands, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged amec, Ausenco, EBA, srk, Tailings, Vail on October 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Vail, Colorado was once a mining town. Now it is a Disney horror of fake Alpine buildings clinging to an image that is rooted in conspicuous consumption. To survive the off-season, all food prices are half-price. The conference on tailings and mine waste is just ended and we have left this ski resort, newly informed [...]
Tailings and Mine Waste 2010
Posted in Enviromental, environmental, Heap leach, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged Directive 74, ERCB, mine waste, Morgenstern, Oil sands, Sobokowicz, Tailings, Vail on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
These past two days we have been in sunny Vail, Colorado at the conference on tailings and mine waste. Sadly you will have to buy the volume from the organizers to read the papers. With a bit of patience, we will post some of the presentations on InfoMine in the near future. Meanwhile let us urge [...]
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