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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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 Grand Canyon, Pebble Mine, Saskatchewan, uranium mining on January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Valley Heap Leach Pads in Cold Climates
Posted in Gold, Heap leach, Uranium, tagged cold climate, edumine, heap leach pad on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
To end the work-week, here is the knottiest problem I faced this week. Maybe the readers of this blog can help solve the problem! The issue: how to design a heap leach pad in a cold climate?
Anti-Mining Madness South Africa Style
Posted in About the news, Gold, People, Tailings, Uranium, tagged ergo, first uranium, kareerand, mariette liefferink, Tailings on October 18, 2011 | 7 Comments »
If you tour by Google Maps that part of South Africa where I grew up (mainly the East Rand around Brakpan and Springs) you will not see the many slimes dams that I knew and played around. They are long since gone—reworked for gold and uranium and consolidated into a mega-slimes dam that I recall is [...]
Rio Tinto Ranger Mine Water Disaster Repeat of the Past of Too Many Slimes Dams
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, consulting, Investing & Finance, Mining history, Tailings, Uranium, tagged Australia, ranger mine, Rio Tinto, slimes dam, Tailings, tom albinese on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here is a picture of a mining disaster waiting to happen. This is a mine in Australia that is shut down because too much rain has filled their tailings impoundment and they appear to have no facilities to treat water hence to release it.
Arizona Mining Statistics
Posted in Coal, mining, Uranium, tagged Arizona, mining, production, statistics on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A quick Monday morning post. Some statistics on mining in Arizona. These numbers are lifted from Arizona Geology, always a good source of information about mining in that state.
Acid Mine Drainage threatens Kwa Thema, South Africa. Is this really worse than Global Warming?
Posted in acid mine drainage, Africa, environmental, Global Warming, Gold, Reclamation, Tailings, Underground, Uranium, tagged AMD, East Geduld, Kwa thema, pollution, slimes dam, Tailings, Witwatersrand on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Growing up on the East Geduld Mine, a gold mine at the far east end of the South African Witwatersrand, we often went to play around the slimes dams and the pools of orange, green, and blue waters that dotted the landscape. Our parent forbade us to go there, for there were stories [...]
Wismut uranium mining reclamation conference in May
Posted in environmental, Europe, Mining history, Tailings, Uranium, tagged chemnitz, Tailings, Uranium, Wismut on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the last week of May, folk will gather at this conference: Remediation of Uranium Mining and Processing Sites – Sustainability and Long Term Aspects. This is the part of the story that I know:
1872 Mining Law Again Under Attack
Posted in environmental, Gold, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), Mining history, North America, Uranium, tagged 1872 mining law, bristol bay, Grand Canyon, joshua tree, Pebble Mine, pew environmental group on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To end the week, a link to a posting attacking the 1872 Mining Law. This is kind of an old topic and one that is opposed by powerful forces in the mining industry. Nonetheless, here is part of the most recent attack:
Rum Jungle, Australia. Failure of Uranium Mine Closure Works
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Mining history, Reclamation, Uranium, tagged mine closure, rum jungle, UMTRA, Uranium on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It is crass to take pleasure in the failure of arrogant people to achieve what they once bragged they would do. Yet I cannot suppress a faint, incorrect spark of a smile when I read of the failure of the closure works at the Rum Jungle Uranium Mine, near Darwin, Australia.
Uranium Mining at Uravan, Colorado
Posted in Colorado, environmental, Uranium, tagged energy fuels, naturita, pinion ridge, Uravan 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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