The sun is shining bright and the day is warm here is Huntington Beach, California, where I am spending time with kids and grandkids. Somehow or other, the pressures of taking the kids to McDonald’s and other diverse hamburger places for lunch, riding the bike down to the beach, being nice at parties to old & [...]
Archive for the ‘decomissioning’ Category
Frivilous Mining Conundrums: WalkAway Sustainable Solutions
Posted in Reclamation, acid mine drainage, decomissioning, Enviromental, British Columbia, tagged Huntington Beach, donlin creek, wlak away closure on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mine Closure: 10 things that go wrong
Posted in acid mine drainage, decomissioning, environmental, Human relations and mining, Mining history, Reclamation, tagged andy robertson, mine closure, Pebble Mine, Witwatersrand on September 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The mine closure conference is underway in one of those tourist towns in the Rockies of Alberta. I am not there; somehow the event snuck up on me and I just could not bring myself to go to another conference where I would snooze unceasingly through dull talks in hushed and dark rooms. It is [...]
Is British Columbia failing to plan for and close mines responsibly?
Posted in British Columbia, decomissioning, Human relations and mining, mining, tagged British Columbia, mine closure, Victoria environmental law centre on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mine Closure in any jurisdiction is fraught with difficulty. There are as many rules, and as many different systems of regulations, as there are mining locales. Yet, mostly nobody seems to be getting it right. The failure to fully provide for and implement responsible mine closure arises from the tension between what the miners want [...]
Slimes dam (aka tailings storage facility) failure and what it meant to my mining midset
Posted in blogs, consulting, decomissioning, Heap leach, Latin America, Mining history, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged Bellavista, Costa Rica, divorce, failure, geowaste, Heap leach, slimes dam, Tailings on April 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A casual conversation in the parking garage involved this question: “What are the five tailings failures that set the course of history?”
Alaska Miners Association Spring Meeting
Posted in blogs, decomissioning, health and safety, North America, Reclamation, tagged alaska mining association, edumine, Greens Creek, Juneau, Kensington mine, mine closure, spring meeting on February 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Alaska Miners Association Southeast Spring Meeting is in Juneau from March 15 to 18, 2011. A preliminary agenda can be found at the link. Topics for sessions include: training, safety, and exploration. On the Saturday following the conference are field trips to Greens Creek or the Kensington Mine. I know Greens Creek well, so [...]
Mine Closure Criteria–Mere Pebbles in the Wind
Posted in decomissioning, Law (Mining), mining, tagged criteria, mine closure, Pebble Mine on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here to end the week are a few ruminations on closure criteria for mines. Not definitive, nor exhaustive, but fascinating. I wonder which ones they will adopt for the Pebble Mine?
The Residual Value of a Diamond Mine: Towards a Secure Philosophy of Mine Closure
Posted in Africa, Community relations, decomissioning, Diamond, Jobs and Salaries, Reclamation, tagged Botswana, closure, Diamond, mine, philosophy, value on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The art, or is it science, of mine closure is still a youngster. There is no agreed fundamental philosophy or even technical approach. This is strange when you consider that mining has been around for a long time and many mines have been worked out. Most have been abandoned as the many abandoned mine [...]
EPA to make miners pay for cleanup of bankrupt mines
Posted in About the news, decomissioning on July 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It is hardly a secret in the mining industry that no mines have the money to cleanup the site after mining ends. See the past proceedings of the Australian Center for Geomechanics on Mine Closure if you doubt me. With AIG and their crazy insurance mania down the tube, it is unlikely any of the insurance [...]
SME uranium mine tailings reclamation
Posted in About the news, decomissioning, Software, tagged BRS, Carlson Natural Regrade, Hutson, mine, Reclamation, Riverton, SME, Tailings, Uranium, Wyoming on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another paper from the SME CD Preprints that I enjoyed and recommend is Application of Best Available Technology to Reclamation Design and Integration with Mine Planning by H.J. Hutson of BRS Inc. in Riverton, Wyoming.
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