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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National Mining Association Announcement
Posted in About the news, mining, tagged jamie caswell, national Mining Association on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To repeat an email from Jamie Caswell of the National Mining Association—seems like a spark of good news in an otherwise contrary scene: Last year, our Minerals Make Life program raised awareness about the contribution of minerals to economic growth, innovation and national security in America. Thanks to these efforts, we saw the momentum around [...]
Obama, Keystone, and USA & Canadian Mining Jobs
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, oil, Oil sands, People, tagged gore, mckibben, Oil sands, pipeline on January 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The news wires are abuzz with the announcement that Obama has caved into his party’s environmental wing and killed the Keystone pipeline that would have carried Canadian oil to the refineries along the gulf coast. Obama spluttered some words about reducing car fuel consumption as a way of making up for the jobs the pipeline would have generated. [...]
Deloitte predicted the Peru Newmont Cajamarca Debacle
Posted in About the news, communication, Community relations, First Nations, Investing & Finance, Peru, tagged cajamarca, Deloitte, Newmont, Peru on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Deloitte a new report Tracking the trends 2012, The top 10 trends mining companies may face in the coming year. The report starts with this quote:
Gleision Colliery Mining Fatalities Re-examined
Posted in About the news, Coal, health and safety, tagged colliery, gleision, queen elizabeth on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What with Welsh miners in the news and possibly becoming a feature of the presidential election, let us turn to a story of the death of four miners last year in a Welsh coal mine. Here is what Queen Elizabeth said in her Christmas message about the deaths:
The National Mining Association on Mining Jobs
Posted in About the news, blogs, environmental, Global Warming, Jobs and Salaries, tagged bill wilson, jobs, national Mining Association, nma, obamaccare, taxes on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Once more on the topic of unemployment and the role of mining in giving people jobs. Today I received the following from the U.S. National Mining Association, and it is an honor to be asked and to be able to comply. Jamie Caswell writes as follows:
2012 Mining Opportunities & Jobs (In Canada?)
Posted in About the news, California, Colorado, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, Mining history, Oil sands, Peru, tagged 2012, Canada, jobs, mining, opportunities on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In a previous posting on this blog, I made my mining predictions for 2012. One of them was that we would be regaled by a continuing plethora of articles saying mining will be detrimentally affected by a shortage of workers. Here is one comment on that posting (I edit for spelling and punctuation):
2012 Mining Predictions
Posted in About the news, Mining history, tagged 2012, mining, prediction on January 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
What does the new year hold for mining? If we truly knew, we would grow rich; we would buy and sell at the right time; and we would buy the right stock in the right commodities just before the price rose.
Durban, Koyoto, Mining, and Global Warming in Perspective
Posted in About the news, Global Warming, Mining history, tagged durban, Global Warming, koyoto, miing on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For no good reasons that need detain us here, I recently had occassion to go back through old I THINK MINING blog postings. I was surprised to see how much I had written on the topic of global warmining in 2007 and thereafter. The surprise is how little things have changed in those years since I first took [...]
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