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Mining Investing from Magazine Hot-Stock-Picks and Reports of Tailings Failure
Posted in consulting, Investing & Finance, Tailings, tagged formulas, mining investment, tailings failure on March 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Why Invest in Australian Mining?
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, blogs, consulting, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, tagged Australia, bubble, burst, invest, mining on March 25, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Right now it seems a no-brainer: invest in Australian mining. Well, maybe this is not good advice. According to a smart young Australian with whom I chatted this week, Australia is headed for decline, decay, and mining investment disaster.
Bill C323 and its implications for mining from Canada
Posted in consulting, Law (Mining), mining, People, tagged Bill C-300, bill c-323, linda duncan, peter julian on March 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Recall Bill C300 which would have enabled the Canadian Federal government to judge Canadian mining companies accused of sins & trespasses abroad? It failed by a small margin. Now a new attempt is being promoted to achieve similar aims, namely enable folk in foreign lands who believe they have been harmed by a Canadian company operating in [...]
Mining the mining wisdom of the old
Posted in brandy, consulting, tagged glasgow, mining, plumbing, wisdom on March 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
His father was a plumber in Glasgow. He is one of the best geotechnical engineers I have been privileged to work with. Here is what he emphasized to me many times as I sought to go to the field to collect data: Old men collect data to prove what they know; young men collect data to [...]
More on EIAs for Mines, New, Expanded, or Closing
Posted in consulting, Enviromental, Environment, Human relations and mining, mining, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged eia, EIS, environmenal impact, mining, Rosemont Copper on March 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Integral to any new mine or expansion of a mine is the preparation of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). If you seek to significantly expand the mine’s tailings, waste rock, or heap leach facilities, you may have to prepare a new or supplemental EIA. Here are references to and extacts from some documents that we [...]
Evaluating Mining Project EIAs
Posted in consulting, Environment, Law (Mining), mining, tagged eia, elaw, environmental law alliance worldwide, Guatemala, marlin mine on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide at this link has a publication all prospective miners and mine investors should read. The publication is free to download. I have, and recommend you do so too. The document is Guidebook for Evaluating Mining Project EIAs. It is available in English, Spanish, and French.
The Past & Future of Tailings Disposal
Posted in consulting, Gold, Mining history, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged george donaldson, golder assoiates, Mike Gowan, slime dam, Tailings on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mike Gowan of Golder Associates in Australia has enabled me to post at this link a PowerPoint presentation of a talk he gave earlier this month in South Africa. At the link is the PowerPoint in pdf format. It is a big file and may take time to download, but persist, for the wait is worth the reward once you [...]
Friday Night at the Bar. Mining Motives, Memories, and Misdemeanors.
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, consulting, People, tagged infidelity, miining, misdemeanors, Pebble Mine, pub, vanvuver on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Scene: A pub in the nether part of Vancouver.
It’s the Mining System. March Not Into the Valley of Death.
Posted in consulting, mining, tagged mining, system analysis on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The individual soldier may fight well. But he too will march into the valley of death if the general’s battle strategy is bad. So it is in mining. The individual miner may be skilled, but he will fail if the mine is badly managed.
My Challenge to SRK to Pull Out of Afghanistan Mining: Leave it to the Taliban
Posted in About the news, consulting, People, tagged Afghanistan, america, Cuba, mining, srk, Taliban on March 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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