American Thanksgiving is upon us. This is my favorite holiday and to celebrate I have come to Huntington Beach to be with a small part of the family and many friends.
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Fraser Institute’s 2010-2011 Mining Survey: The Judgement of Paris?
Posted in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, British Columbia, California, Investing & Finance, Latin America, North America, tagged Fraser Institute, fraser institute. judgement paris, judgement paris, mining on March 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Annually the Fraser Institute comes out with a survey of mining countries and ranks them according to how good a place it is to try to find an ore body, to open a mine, to operate a mine. The Institute gives you a good guide about where to invest. I pay considerable attention to what they say. For this [...]
Entertaining Kids on Main Street
Posted in California, People, tagged entertain, Huntington Beach, kids, main street on March 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Every town and city has a main street. Often they are called Main Street. Not the mall: those dreary places designed for shopping for necessities. Main Street is a road lined with fountains, nooks & crannies to explore, shops of unusual goods, and a fascinating place to entertain kids.
Mine Closure by Way of The Girl of the Golden West, MET Opera, and Puccini
Posted in California, Gold, opera, Reclamation, tagged angle camp, brothel, frog jumping, girl golden west, met opera, mine closure, opera, puccini, sacramento, san francisco, whiskey on January 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today we watched the MET Opera broadcast of Girl of the Golden West by Puccini. It is an all-American, out-of-Italy tale of a mining camp at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California in the old days of the gold rush. Minnie, the owner of the local pub falls in love with the [...]
New Year Reflections on Mining, Altruism, and Good Food
Posted in California, Church, consulting, People, tagged altruism, altruism. george price. price of altruism. owen harman, Darwin, george price, mining, oren harman, price of altruism on January 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Day one: 1/1/11 if you count by day, month, year. Or 11/1/1 of you go by year, day/month, month/day. Etc. A rainy and cold day in this part of California. And a supper party with old friends who live just across the road. She is the best cook in all the world. We ate home-made [...]
Mine Closure Myths: Walk-Away Closure
Posted in California, Enviromental, environmental, Mining history, North America, tagged bicycle, Huntington Beach, mine closure, myth, Silver chair, UMTRA on January 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today was another perfect Southern California sunny and warm day. We rode our bicycles around the Huntington Beach neighborhood, took a long swim in the solar heated pool, and wallowed in the hot tub. A large chicken-based lunch at Boston Market was the high point of gastronomic indulgence. Now the kids and grandkids are watching the [...]
The People of Mine Closure: Inspiration from the Getty Center, Los Angeles
Posted in California, First Nations, Human relations and mining, North America, Reclamation, tagged getty center, Los Angeles, mine closure, People on December 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today we took the kids to the Getty Center in the mountains of Los Angeles. The architecture is superb; the art work terrible–a testament to money in the absence of taste. The only piece that brought a smile and that captured the interest of the kids was the outdoors sculpture pictured here.
More Mine Closure Issues: California Redux
Posted in California, environmental, First Nations, Investing & Finance, Mining history, North America, Reclamation, tagged angle camp, brian fagan, mine closure, san francisco, skyrocket, yamana on December 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some forty miles east of San Francisco is an old mine. It operated for about five years and never made a profit. Then it was closed. It has been “in closure” ever since and millions have been spent on lawyers, lobbyists, consultants, and actual works to make dilution the solution. It will never be [...]
Huntington Beach Christmas
Posted in California, Church, tagged bicycle, christmas, hauntington beach, Huntington Beach, new year, oil, oil rig, power on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Enough of Christmas trees; they are everywhere. Instead, I took a bicycle ride down the beach to see where it all begins and ends.
More California Storms, Floods, and Mining Dreaming
Posted in California, consulting, environmental, mining, North America, tagged California, flood, grandson, mining, palm tree, storm on December 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is not great photography. For sure it is not art. It is a simple photo snapped by me this evening as I waited outside the karate class my grandson attends a few nights a week in southern California. I paste the photo here to augment the post below on the multiple-aspects of the state [...]
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