The journal of the scientists and engineers division of the National Groundwater Association, is called simply enough groundwater. No capitals that I can find. The contents are learned and often obtuse. Here is the abstract of a paper Rationales Behind Irrationality of Decision Making in Groundwater Quality Management in the January-February 2012 issue. It does [...]
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Groundwater Irrational Decision Making Affects Mining Too
Posted in acid mine drainage, Enviromental, tagged decision making, groundwater, irrational on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Frivilous Mining Conundrums: WalkAway Sustainable Solutions
Posted in acid mine drainage, British Columbia, decomissioning, Enviromental, Reclamation, tagged donlin creek, Huntington Beach, wlak away closure on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 & [...]
Mining Jobs & Careers at and around the Tailings Impoundment
Posted in acid mine drainage, environmental, Jobs and Salaries, mining, Tailings, tagged career, jobs, mining, Tailings on November 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here are some careers in mining working on the tailings impoundment, tailings storage facility, containment facility, or whatever it is called locally.
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 [...]
Acid Mine Drainage threatens Kwa Thema, South Africa. Is this really worse than Global Warming?
Posted in acid mine drainage, Africa, environmental, Global Warming, Gold, Reclamation, Tailings, Underground, Uranium, tagged AMD, East Geduld, Kwa thema, pollution, slimes dam, Tailings, Witwatersrand on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Growing up on the East Geduld Mine, a gold mine at the far east end of the South African Witwatersrand, we often went to play around the slimes dams and the pools of orange, green, and blue waters that dotted the landscape. Our parent forbade us to go there, for there were stories [...]
Mine Closure: EPA on Questa Mine, New Mexico
Posted in acid mine drainage, consulting, Mining history, North America, Reclamation, Waste Rock, tagged chevron, closure, John McCain, New Mexico, questa mine on December 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Looking back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century and what has happened in mining, we cannot ignore the emphasize on mine closure. There have been mine closure conferences, many technical papers, and even a few mine closures.
Burlesque Mine Closure
Posted in acid mine drainage, Investing & Finance, tagged burlesque, EduMine. acid rock, GARD, INAP on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Estimating the costs of mine closure for a feasibility study is much like watching the movie Burlesque. Both involve a certain suspension of belief and a naive faith in the impossible. Or a love of beautiful women and beautiful equations. Perhaps this should be the topic of a breakout session at the September 2011 conference [...]
AngloAmerican waters Pebble Mine
Posted in acid mine drainage, environmental, Investing & Finance, North America, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged Anglo American, dry stack, filtered tailings, Pebble Mine, tailngs and mine waste 2010 on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The supply of water and protection of water quality are now key issues at mines. The level of activity and focus on water may be gauged by looking at the website of any consultant to the mining industry: without fail they feature a pretty young lady in front of a stream, a pond, or ocean [...]
Water in Mining: Use & Abuse of the Conference Vacation
Posted in acid mine drainage, Australia and New Zealand, consulting, Oil sands, tagged conference, mining, perth, water on September 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This is why this is the first blog posting this week: a visit to the oil sands to consult; and a big meeting with a client from the Northwest Territories who is faced with an expensive decision. Along the way, plenty of opportunities to chat and eat with great mining people. I sometimes wonder [...]
Papua New Guinea mining update as Ramu Mine gets downdate
Posted in acid mine drainage, Asia, environmental, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, Tailings, tagged Chinese, frieda river, nickel, PNG, ramu mine on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Papua new Guinea is an area of renewing mining interest. Xstrata is looking to develop the Frieda River Mine, described thus on their website:
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