Just received word of another conference on tailings to be held in 2013. The new one is the First International Seminar on Tailings Management. It is planned for 28 to 30 August in the Sheraton Hotel in Santiago, Chile. (more…)
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Tailings, tailings & mine waste, paste, thickened tailings, managing mine waters, and heap leach 2013
Posted in mining, Oil sands, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged heap leach 2013, mine water solutions 2013, paste and thickened tailings 2013, tailings 2013, tailings and mine waste 2013 on December 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Paste 2013: Abstracts Review
Posted in Enviromental, Latin America, Oil sands, Tailings, tagged 2013, belo horizonte, conference, paste on November 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Today I looked through the abstracts submitted for Paste 2013 in Belo Horizonte in Brazil next year. Here is what I wrote—it will be all over InfoMine soon enough. (more…)
Salaries of Chemists in Canadian Mining
Posted in Copper, Diamond, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, mining, North America, Oil sands, Uncategorized, tagged chemical engineer, chemist, Chile, lucrestius, salary, stephen greenblatt, the swerve on September 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just back from Chile. Long, grueling flights, and airport lounges. The benefits, few as they are, included the chance to read Stephen Greeenblatt’s The Swerve. It is the story of the recovery of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, a long poem in Latin from the BC era. I have ordered both the original Latin version and two translations. For this is of the things I believe. I leave you to read more if you are curious. (more…)
Stop Enbridge. Save the Salish Sea. Sail Wind.
Posted in British Columbia, First Nations, Global Warming, Human relations and mining, Oil sands, tagged enbridge, North Vancouver, protest, salish sea on September 3, 2012 | 8 Comments »
On yet another sunny day in a record-breaking streak of dry weather, I rode down to a park here on the North Shore where they we demonstrating to stop pipelines from the oil sands to the coast of BC and hence to China. (more…)
Weekend Mining Roundup: 63 Highways to Health and Words
Posted in blogs, brandy, health, Oil sands, tagged alberta, Edmonton, Ekati, fly-in, fly-out, fort mcmuray, highway 63 on July 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The weekend looms, so here is a roundup of the items I have saved for bogging about and that I know I will never get to unless I summarize now: (more…)
2012 Survey Canadian Mine Salaries
Posted in Diamond, Jobs and Salaries, mining, North America, Oil sands, tagged 2012, Canadian, mine, salary on June 28, 2012 | 7 Comments »
The CostMine 2012 Survey of Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits is the only factual source of information that I know of on the salaries of technical, managerial, and administrative folk who work on Canadian Mines. The data come from fifty-six metal, industrial mineral, and fossil fuel mines. Fourteen are underground operations; thirty-three surface mines. Size ranged from one million to five million tonnes ore or product mined annually. (more…)
2012 Survey of Canadian Mine Wages
Posted in Diamond, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, tagged Canada, fossil fuel, non-union, union, wages on June 27, 2012 | 5 Comments »
CostMine’s newly published 2012 Survey Results of Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits is now available. It is expensive; most individuals probably cannot afford it; you will have to get your union or human resources staff to order it if you want to see all the data. Thanks to the folk at Cost Mine, I can give some numbers that interest me and that may interest you. (more…)
Canadian Dutch Disease: Not In Oil Sands Mining or Canada
Posted in About the news, Oil sands, People, tagged dutch disease, mining, Oil sands, thomas mulcair on June 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The name of the new leader of the Canadian opposition party,the NDP, is Thomas Mulcair. He is rather naive: before visiting the oil sands mines he said they are the cause of a plague of the Dutch Disease in Canada. On seeing the oil sands mines, he is reported to have exclaimed: “They are big.” Which of course they are by any standard. (more…)
NDP on Oil Sands & Mining. What Thomas Mulcair says about coolies is not cool.
Posted in About the news, Oil sands, People, tagged NDP, Oil sands, tarsands, thomas mulcair on March 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Funny how we all know ever detail of the US Republican presidential hopefuls, yet know nothing about those seeking to head up the NDP, the official opposition party in Canada. Today at this link, I got a taste of who might become the next NDP leader and got a smattering of his attitude towards mining. (more…)
Cover Technology in Mining: Wismut to Suncor’s Pond 5
Posted in Europe, North America, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged covers, pond 5, Suncor, Tailings, wick drains, Wismut on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Clap! The sound a big volume of mining proceedings made when it landed on my desk this morning. Dropped from on high, this volume is the collection of technical papers from an International Symposium on closure of uranium mines at Wismut in Germany. If you haven’t heard of Wismut, then I suggest you get a quick bit of background information from a previous posting on ithinkmining . I have trawled the internet in search of an electronic copy of the preceedings but I can’t seem to come up with any. If anyone has a link, let me know and I’ll repost it. (more…)
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