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When I first came to Canada, I was told by proud Canadians that the country is unique: “Everybody is polite; no protests; and no class action law suites.  Not like across the border.”  Yet this week I have been contacted by Canadian lawyers seeking a technical specialist to help them start a class action law [...]

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On Saturday I posted a piece on the Pebble Mine.  Here is one of the comments on what I wrote—the commenter takes me to task for consulting to the EKATI Diamond mine, while questioning the need for and the practicality of opening the Pebble Mine.  First the comment and then my reply, which is an extended essay on [...]

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An ordinary weekend preceding a Monday holiday.  And yet extraordinary if you think hard about it.

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The draft report by the EPA on potential mining impacts on Bristol Bay by the Pebble Mine or any of the other seven potential mines in that part of Alaska is published.  Here is a link to one report thereon—there are hundreds of news items, so maybe look for others as well if the topic [...]

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Here from the CostMine report 2011 Survey Results, U.S. Coal Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits ae some wages earned by U.S. coal miners. First wages at surface coal mines.  In US$ per hour, here are minimum, average, and maximum wages for the 28 reporting mines:

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Always on the lookout for mining scams, I came across the news report repeated below.  This Californian scammed an elderly couple of $5 million promising to extract gold from abandoned mines.  I can never quite understand how somebody who is smart enough to accrue so much money, can be so stupid as to part with it [...]

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There are conventionally 2,080 work hours in a year.  Thus somebody earning a wage of $20 an hour gets the equivalent of a salary of about $42,000.  Considering the mine manager makes about $100,000 to $150,000 a year, it is interesting to take a look at actual wages paid to miners in the United States [...]

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Being a Sunday I took long walks through the city.  Here are some pictures of things that caught my attention.  A typical street scene with public clock and advert.   The copper man–indeed a live human all dolled up in copper.  The spires of the cathederal in the main square.  This is the statue of [...]

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Before coming to Santiago, I had thought of Chile as a place of copper mines.  Today I learnt that gold was and is a major mined product of Chile.  Today I lunched with two young geologists exploring the hillsides above an old placer deposit which, they tell me, financed the founding of Santiago and ultimately [...]

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Mining has brought me to Santiago, Chile and will take me north to the great copper mining district.  This past week, I have met with civil and mining engineers working on a new mine.  Their challenges are water and energy to make the mine profitable.  Both water and energy are in short supply up north and [...]

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