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BC to share mining tax with First Nations

Posted in About the news, British Columbia, First Nations, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), tagged , , , , , , on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   Some things just take a long time to come to fruition.  Some say it has taken one hundred years to reach the historic announcements these past days that the BC Provincial government will share tax revenues on two new mines with the First Nations on whose traditional lands the mines are located.  Here is [...]

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Gold at $52,831 and Other Wet Dreams of Mining

Posted in About the news, Gold, Investing & Finance, tagged , , , on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   Silly articles about the price of gold litter the mining news media.  Mineweb has degenerated into a kind of three-ring circus that each day delivers up at least three more superficial stories on the price of gold.  One article says the price will go up; one says it will stay constant; and one says it will [...]

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Mining.com’s new magazine

Posted in About the news, North America, tagged , , , on July 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »

   I have been slow to write these past few days.  Mainly because the family is in town to celebrate summer’s arrival in Vancouver: beautiful sunny and hot sunshine.

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Guatemala, Goldcorp, Marlin and the White-Man’s Burden of Mining; The Next Earthquake Disaster and Many Dead

Posted in About the news, Church, Gold, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Latin America, health, health and safety, tagged , , , , , , on July 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

  The Goldcorp Marlin Mine in Guatemala is a fascinating case history in the ups and downs of mining, of the license-to-mine, of community relations, of so-called sustainable development, and the role of law in a just system.  Then there is the fascinating aspect of a government that may not be entirely competent or uncorrupt; [...]

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Afghanistan mining and the U.S. Navy versus opium and agriculture

Posted in About the news, Asia, blogs, tagged , , , , , , on June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

         Sitting in the 8:30pm sun of Fort McMurray reading e-mails, I saw this one from my son, who is in the U.S. Navy station in the Pentagon in Washington, DC–he states:  “Interesting…maybe it will change the course and purpose of the war!” 

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Irony or insight? Oil, gas, mining, poverty, and jails

Posted in About the news, First Nations, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Summer is a-coming to mining

Posted in About the news, Coal, Jobs and Salaries, tagged , , , on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

    Summer is a-coming and to mining too.  In spite of the gloom surrounding the West Virginia tragedy and the ongoing fight over the Alaskan Pebble Mine.  I know summer is a coming as my e-mail inbox is filling with applications from students for summer and permanent jobs. 

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West Virginia Mining Deaths: A Black Mark for Mining

Posted in About the news, Coal, North America, Underground, blogs, safety, tagged , , , on April 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »

    We grieve for the miners killed in the recent West Virginia coal mining accident.  And we extend our sympathy to their families. Now let us get angry at the people and the systems that killed them.  As a blogger, it is our right and our duty to say what other may but think.

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China mining: Rio Tinto and more deaths by a thousand cuts

Posted in About the news, Asia, Law (Mining), tagged , , , on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   We note without comment this statement by Rio Tinto on their web site regarding the conviction of executives for taking bribes: 

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Nevada mining tax and fee fight

Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, North America, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

     The details are murky and muddled.  The report at this link explains some of it, the worst part being; The Nevada mining industry is now under pressure from a petition being circulated by labor unions, conservation groups, teachers’ unions and others which would remove constitutional protections for taxation of Nevada mining. A district court [...]

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