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Does Every State Need Its Own Grand Canyon and Its Own Uranium Mine?

Posted in blogs, Colorado, Enviromental, environmental, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, Uranium, tagged , , , on January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »

The news is that the area around the Grand Canyon is off-limits to uranium mining for the next 20 years. The Obama administration has banned new mining near the Grand Canyon, an area known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves, the Associated Press reported.

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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 , , , , 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): 

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Mining Starting Salaries: If you believe it?

Posted in Colorado, Jobs and Salaries, tagged , , , on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »

All professors brag about the one lucky student who gets a job offer with a six-figure salary.  This is a medal proudly worn by the bragging academic.  Gives him/her status amongst peers, and the opportunity to recruit more students, the essential currency of teaching.

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Uranium Mining at Uravan, Colorado

Posted in Colorado, environmental, Uranium, tagged , , , on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   We left Juneau this morning, having spent the day yesterday at the Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island.  We were there to observe the filtered tailings placed in a dry stack.  A simple conclusion:  the system works amazingly well. 

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Jobs in mining: hired, fired, retired, and retrained from Australia to Canada

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Colorado, Jobs and Salaries, People, tagged , , , , on April 27, 2010 | 18 Comments »

         Here is an e-mail I received over the weekend.  A typical mother concerned about her son, a mining engineer, who cannot find a job in mining either in Canada or Australia:

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Mongolia looks to Japan to protect its mining environment

Posted in Colorado, People on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Mining reporters with short memories, or selective vision, still write glowing articles about Robert Friedlund and what he will do for Mongolia by opening another mine.  The latest article, however, has a twist that bites.   Seems the Mongolian parliament rejected a deal with Mr. Friedlund and sent the prime minister off to Japan, where he [...]

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Uranium & Blog Mining Vs Organic Vegetables

Posted in Colorado, mining, Uranium on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Montrose, Colorado is up in arms about a proposed new uranium mill. Half the county residents want the mill and the work. Half the county wants to develop the area into a string of organic vegetable farms. The report tells us: The towns of Nucla and Naturita boomed along with the uranium industry,but few jobs [...]

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