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The Mining Week in Review

Posted in About the news, Africa, California, Global Warming, Gold, Mining history, tagged , , , , on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

  
As the week winds down, here are some of the more way-out postings I have encountered this week on the subject of mining:

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Julius Malema pushes nationalization of South African mines

Posted in About the news, Africa, Investing & Finance, People, racilism, tagged , , , on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today’s report on the battle to nationalize South Africa’s mine states in part:
De Beers, which mines diamonds in Botswana and Namibia in partnership with the governments of those countries, “seems to be refusing that the people of South Africa benefit from mining of diamonds,” the ANC Youth League said in a statement yesterday.

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Nationalize South Africa’s mines demand the young

Posted in About the news, Africa, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), racilism, tagged , , , , on February 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The headline in the Star, a venerable old Johannesburg newspaper, is about the fight between the Minister of Mines who says “No nationalization in my lifetime,” and the young bucks calling her a liar and accusing her of telling them one thing in private and another in public. 

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Pacific Rim Mining killings, Canadian decency, and the heart of darkness

Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Latin America, People, tagged , , , , on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

  
The time around Christmas and New Year is as good a time as any to kill an opponent.  Most folk are off with family or on holiday and are less likely than normal to be around to comment or protest.  Thus this is a good time to kill, assassinate as some call it, an opponent of mining.  [...]

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The best and worst mining stories of the weekend, 2009, and the decade

Posted in About the news, Latin America, Law (Mining), People, opera, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

     
Christmas begun in earnest this weekend.  I braved the minus thirty-four degrees of Edmonton to attend The Nutcracker with mining folk.  Then supper at a fancy restaurant and much talk of the past decade—the first of the 2000s and soon to be over and done with.  On Sunday night to a party to sing carols and [...]

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Does the religion & crusade of global warming impact the mining industry?

Posted in About the news, Church, Global Warming, Investing & Finance, opera, tagged , , , , , on December 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Sunday and time to contemplate on religion.  Not necessarily the church type, rather the secular. 

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Bill C-300 In the spotlight and gaining ground in Ottawa to the concern of the mining industry

Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining, Law (Mining), racilism, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »

    The bill that may determine the future of Canadian mining is called the Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries—Bill C-300 for short.  

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PDAC fights Corporate Acountability Bill: a New Star Chamber at stake?

Posted in About the news, First Nations, Gold, Law (Mining), Oil sands, racilism, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

    Is the Canadian mining industry loosing the battle of public opinion, and if so, why?
This question is prompted by the news that the president of the Alberta Enterprise Group said “the Alberta government and energy industry must step up their listless defence of the oilsands and better fund their PR battle against environmental groups.”
Meanwhile two [...]

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Mining laws and regulations that promote good reclamation

Posted in About the news, California, Law (Mining), tagged , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

    President Obama lectures the Chinese on censorship and they censor him on Chinese media as hand-picked “students” ask polite questions and avoid the truth—whatever that is in a goon-dominated place.  The saddest and scariest part is that such tight control of people and the truth leads to a commercial behemoth that is seeking to take [...]

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Socialist Mining is good for socialists but not for the environment

Posted in About the news, Investing & Finance, Oil sands on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

  We may laugh at Gadaffi’s United Nations speech and his call to divide Switzerland into three and then to unite each linguistic region with its linguistic equivalent in France, Germany, or Italy respectively. 

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