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Oil Sands and Other Tailings Trafficability

Posted in Oil sands, People, Tailings, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Rummaging through old papers this weekend, I came across a short hand-written piece that I penned in 1982.  I repeat it here with no edits.  This piece is interesting in light of the muddle made by the Alberta ERCB in demanding an oil sand tailings strength of 10 kPa so that the deposit can be [...]

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CIDA Supports Canadian Mining: The Pros & Cons of a Rising Debate

Posted in About the news, blogs, Enviromental, Human relations and mining, People, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Soon after the fall of the Berlin wall, we descended on Wismut, East Germany with proposals to help them cleanup the old uranium mines, mills, and tailings impoundments that the Russians left behind.  The large American consulting firm that I was working for at the time, believed that with our UMTRA Project experience, we were [...]

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Sunday Sermon: Norma, Opera, and Mining Imperialism

Posted in brandy, Mining history, opera, tagged , , , , , , on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Alternative titles for this posting include: Free Gaul; All Romans Out Abandon the Alter and Flee the Native Land Canadian Mining Imperialism

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Is Sex Necessary?

Posted in health and safety, Mining history, tagged , , , on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Today was cold, mainly as a result of last night’s snow which left a wet slush on the sidewalks of the townhouse complex.  I trudged through the slush to dispose of garbage in the common shed from which it is collected at irregular intervals.   Lying in the shed was a yellowed copy of an old [...]

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New Mining Investment Resource: Featured Mining Investment Opportunities

Posted in Investing & Finance, tagged , , , , , on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The quantity of information that is needed to make rationale mining investment decisions is immense.   It is near impossible to read all the daily emails or go to all the conferences and meetings on mining that have as their ultimate gold-goal the provision of advice to help you make profitable mining investment decisions.  Now there [...]

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New Zealand Mining Debate: Lamb vs Lignite?

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, mining, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Growing up in South Africa, we ate a great deal of mutton.  It was cheap & available.  I knew nothing of steak and salmon until I got to Vancouver, where salmon is cheap & available.  Yet I still long for the gamey taste of mutton.  I found it once in Mexican Hat in the Navajo [...]

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Barrick’s Beyond Borders Blog

Posted in blogs, Human relations and mining, Latin America, Law (Mining), mining, Peru, tagged , , on January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »

On the right-hand side of this posting is my blog-roll.  Here I list all the blogs that I have found that are true blogs or reasonable facsimiles of a blog about mining.  I have just added a new one to the list.  It is called Beyond Borders.  It is run by Barrick and subtitled Responsible [...]

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Social Responsibility in Mining

Posted in British Columbia, First Nations, Human relations and mining, mining, tagged , , , on January 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »

A short note to share with you a site that I came across today.  Here is the link to the procedings of the First International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining held in Santiago, Chile in October 2011.  I have not had time to download and look at all of the PowerPoint presentations.  Those I [...]

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Mining in Brazil. Vale Lauded. Omissive & Peccant Mining.

Posted in environmental, mining, Mining history, tagged , , , , , , on January 23, 2012 | 3 Comments »

     Seldom on a Sunday is there a good book about mining to read.  Today I hit the jackpot.  I read Understanding Mining Around the Quadrilatero Ferrifero.  A formidable title, but an easy and pleasant read.   Three authors are listed: Paulo Tarso Amorim Castro; Herminio Arias Nalini Junior; and Hernani Mota De Lima. 

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The MET’s Enchanted Island Opera

Posted in opera, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »

In a word, the Met’s new opera The Enchanted Island is enchanting.  We saw it today on the big screen at the Coquitlam movie house.  The audience gasped and clapped in emotional response.  I am almost convinced that watching opera in a comfortable movie house, at reasonable price, and with popcorn at interval, is the best [...]

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