Posted in consulting, environmental, health and safety, mining, Tailings, tagged black swan, complex system, emergency response, risk resiliance, tailings failure on May 2, 2013 | 2 Comments »
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Risk resilience is a term that I heard for the first time today. The people who used the term assure me that it is not new, just not recognized in mining for its power. There was a conference last year in South Africa on risk resilience in mining. There is a successful consultant on the topic in Australia. (more…)
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, environmental, People, Tailings, tagged andy robertson, EPA, extreme environments, mine water solutions, Pebble Mine on April 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Just available at this link is the PowerPoint presentation made by Andy Robertson at last week’s conference in Lima, Peru on Mine Water Solution in Extreme Environments. As always, it is fascinating & provocative and informed by his deep understanding of the topic and his international experience looking at mines & tailings dams worldwide. (more…)
Posted in acid mine drainage, brandy, consulting, decomissioning, environmental, Geology, Geotechnical, Human relations and mining, Tailings, tagged categories, decision making, pre-feasibility study. feasibiility study, Tailings on April 27, 2013 | 3 Comments »
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Categories are constructs of our imagination. We define categories to aid our thinking, analysis, and decision-making. It is easier to respond immediately if a stimulus fits a preconceived category, than to analyze afresh. A rustle in the brush fits the definition of the category “Tiger in the woods; the tiger could kill us; therefore flee.” Why analyze the situation to decide that the wind is merely blowing through the trees and making a nasty sound? (more…)
Posted in About the news, consulting, Global Warming, Gold, Investing & Finance, Latin America, Law (Mining), Peru, tagged Barrick, Chile, conference, court, lima, mine water solutions, pascua lama on April 15, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Posted in consulting, environmental, mining, tagged chemical mass balance, enery use, mine watr management, optimization, systems analysis on April 11, 2013 | 4 Comments »
We have just completed the nine-hour EduMine webcast on Mine Water Management. In my opinion—a highly biased one–it was a success. We had high attendance and managed a first for EduMine of seven speakers. All were excellent–again in my opinion. I certainly learnt from them. (more…)
Posted in acid mine drainage, consulting, Enviromental, People, Tailings, Underground, Waste Rock, tagged best practice guidelines, DWA, edumine, mine water management, South Africa on April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Browsing the web earlier this week I came across the site of the South African Department of Water Affairs. There I found the following Best Practice Guidelines relevant to mine water management: (more…)
Posted in brandy, Church, Global Warming, Mining history, opera, tagged easter, euridice, eurydike, Global Warming, gluck, lower seymour conservation area, opera, orfeo, orpeus on March 31, 2013 | 2 Comments »
On the mines of South Africa, a long time ago, Easter was a special occasion. It was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn; it was a long weekend when even the miners did not work; it was a family time; and we went to Church to pray for lives lost and redeemed. For through the year, there were always deaths and distress. After Lent, this seemed an appropriate time to reminisce. (more…)
Posted in acid mine drainage, British Columbia, mining, Open Pit, People, Peru, Software, Tailings, tagged bc guidelines, bernard brixel, edumine, groundwater. modeling, mines, mining, soilvision on March 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Live today on EduMine is a new course: Introduction to Groundwater Modeling for Mines and Mining. The authors are myself and Bernard Brixel. Murray Fredlund and his folk at SoilVision contributed good computer models. (more…)
Posted in blogs, brandy, British Columbia, environmental, opera, tagged attila, mining, opera, porn, Verdi on March 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a picture of a child’s play ground in Iowa. Better we revel in the games of children than contemplate the outcome of these games: tribes, battle, war, death & devastation, or at the least indulgence in opera & brandy. Here are some thoughts from today on these topics, blogged lest the demons of Hades torment our sleep. (more…)
Posted in acid mine drainage, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged bc guidelines, edumine, groundwater. modeling, mine water management, surface water on February 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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