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A webinar is when you log your computer into another website and make a phone call to a conference call. Then the webinar presenter talks via phone and shows figures on your computer’s screen. Much easier than fighting security at the airport to get to a strange city for a conference. But now I have [...]

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It is hard to believe that a 23-meter high wall of an open pit coal mine in Maryland can just fail and “cover” two miners.   Is this another instance of human hubris?  I know the old adage that a slope is stable on the morning of the day it fails.  But was there no monitoring [...]

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The California State Water Resources Control Board by Resolution 92-49 adopted a policy that an area of contaminated groundwater where cleanup cannot be achieved may be designated a Containment Zone. To date no mine in the state has been designated a containment zone, but such a designation would bring clarity and closure to many of [...]

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Stuck in the warm sun besides the beach in southern California this week, I still had time to look up some papers on mine open pit lakes.  This was done a part of an ongoing debate about sustainable development.   I debate as follows:  obey the law in spirit and verse–and if the jurisdiction is too [...]

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