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Rum Jungle, Australia. Failure of Uranium Mine Closure Works

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Mining history, Reclamation, Uranium, tagged , , , 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. 

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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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Perpetual mining: what does long term mean? Confounding Pebble Mine, the BP oil spill, and nuclear energy.

Posted in consulting, environmental, Geology, Global Warming, Mining history, Uranium, tagged , , , , on May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

        This posting is intended as a small contribution to the debate about the Pebble Mine in Alaska.  This posting is prompted by the oil in the sea from those who prefer oil to uranium.  That is the miner in me talking.  Sorry to the oil and gas men.  And to the birds and [...]

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Sustainable Mining revisted: what happens to old tailings impoundments, aka slimes dams?

Posted in California, Gold, Mining history, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, Uranium, tagged , , , , , , on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Most people like to talk about the benefits of sustainable mining.  Seldom, however, do we see a concrete report on successful sustainable mining.  By way of quick admission: I am a sceptic of the concept and have frequently written critical blog postings on the abuse and mis-use of the term.  Let me, then, take a [...]

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Junior Mining Companies as Investment Opportunities

Posted in feasibilty studies, Uranium, tagged , , on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

   The past three days have been in Denver.   My travels took me into the company of consultants to the financial side of the mining industry–those folk who consult to the titans of the industry who broker the mergers and take-overs, the resource estimations and high politics in world capital cities where the deals are [...]

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Uranium mining and uranium mill tailings disposal sites anew and renew

Posted in environmental, North America, Uranium on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

With fights about new uranium mines sprouting up all over the country, we note with interest a fight about to erupt over the uranium mill tailings disposal site south of Grand Junction,  Colorado.

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The Color of Australian Mining

Posted in About the news, Uranium on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Why is it considered so fashionable to tour Australia in preference to touring the United States or Canada?  That question has perpetually confounded me as one friend after another proclaims in high tones that, while they have never seen the southwest of Colorado or the Canadian Rockies, they desire with all their hearts to go to Australia. 

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Diamonds & Brickbats: If McCain had been president?

Posted in brandy, Copper, Diamond, Uncategorized, Uranium on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

What if John McCain had become president?  That is an intriguing question to ponder over copious beer, brandy, and wine.  Sure there would have been more diamonds on the First Lady and that would have been good for diamond sales, which now are in a slump.  Maybe six big cars would still be a symbol of [...]

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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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Mountaintop Mining

Posted in Coal, mountaintop mining, Uranium on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Somehow it is almost un-American to imagine that one man, at the top, can solve all the nation’s problems. I refer to recent reports that environmentalists are disappointed that Obama has not already banned mountaintop mining. So too gays who believe he should have permitted universal marriage. And that uranium prospecting near the Grand Canyon [...]

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