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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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 »
Responsible mine closure–new toolkits from ICMM and Outokumpu
Posted in decomissioning, Enviromental, tagged closure, finance, ICMM, mine closure planning, mining, outokumpu on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From London and the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) comes their newest publication Planning for Integrated Mine Closure: Toolkit.
Faro Mine as a surrogate for the Pebble Mine 100 years hence
Posted in decomissioning, tagged Alaska, faro Mine Denison Environmental Services, Pebble Mine, water quality Yukon on August 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Faro Mine is arguably the most polluted closed mine in Canada. From what I can work out, they did just about everything wrong, and there is really no way to fix it. The official web site won’t tell you that; it is a master piece of propaganda that makes the mine sound like a make-work opportunity [...]
Gilt Edge Mine turnishes the luster of mining glitter and gold guilt
Posted in acid mine drainage, decomissioning, Uranium, tagged atomic bomb, EPA, gilt edge mine, mining, South Dakota, superfund, Uranium, war on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Gilt Edge Mine Superfund site in South Dakota is the topic of a just published US Environmental Protection Agency proposed plan regarding closure. The mine is also the topic of a longer posting on determination of the site water balance by stochastic methods published at this link. In summary this is an old mine, [...]
Shoppers with plastic bags cause vastly more pollution than even the worst of mines
Posted in acid mine drainage, decomissioning, Enviromental, Global Warming, health and safety, Reclamation, tagged acid mine drainage, Anthropocene, geomorphology, Global Warming, holocene, mining, ocean, Open Pit, plastic, pollution, Tailings, Waste Rock on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Holocene man (and woman and children) learnt to survive melting glaciers, a warming earth, rising seas, and the onset of agriculture, mining, organized religion, and industry. Now the Holocene is ended and we pass into a new geological age. What an extraordinary thought that we have lived through the end of an epoch to enter another. [...]
Successful heap leach pad closure–in California
Posted in About the news, decomissioning, Heap leach, North America, Reclamation on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is good to see a heap leach pad formally closed. In this case the formality is impressive: those most pernickety folk at the California Regional Water Quality Control Board Lahontan Region issuing an Order regarding Glamis Rand Mining Company’s closed heap leach pad. Goes to show you can successfully shut down a heap leach pad [...]
Grants, NM uranium mines to return to make the desert bloom?
Posted in decomissioning, Mining history, North America, Uranium on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Grants, New Mexico is a beautiful setting: blue sky over red rocks and that eternal brown desert. A small, silent town of rugged folk. When I lived and worked in Albuquerque, my youngest daughter took ballet lessons and every Christmas the dance school took their production of the Nutcracker on tour to Grants. Being an able [...]
Theologians attack mining from a base of ethical and economic ignorance
Posted in About the news, communication, Community relations, Cyanide, decomissioning, due dilligence, health, health and safety, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, North America, People, safety on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Christopher Lind, a theologian at some Toronto University writes a try-to-feel-good attack on mining entitled Mining Companies Challenged by Demands of Ecojustice. Because he attacks without substance, I feel it fair to counter with vigour. The good Anglican starts by asking a perfectly reasonable question: Is social justice compatible with environmental justice? If social justice [...]
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