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 [...]
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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 »
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:
Kemess Mine & Northgate Mineral rise again
Posted in acid mine drainage, British Columbia, First Nations, Jobs and Salaries on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In 2008, a long report concluded that the proposed Kemess South mine in British Columbia should not be developed. The report concluded that with but ten years of production it simply was not worth killing a local lake with tailings and impacting local water bodies with acid mine drainage from the open pit. The report [...]
Swiss banks run out of space to store gold and we run out of ways to defend gold mining
Posted in acid mine drainage, Gold, Investing & Finance on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The best justification for mining is that it produces the basic materials we need to live: metal for windmills and Prius cars; uranium for power (electric & bombs); talc for toothpaste and face powder. The list is endless. Yet we cannot say the same about most gold. Some gold indeed goes into caps for rotten teeth or connections [...]
Blog adverts for mining due diligence. Wardrop rules the roost.
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, due dilligence, Gold, Reclamation, tagged acid mine drainage, advert, blog, due diligence, Gold, mining, wardrop engineering on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blogs are no longer biographical logs. The software for posting blogs is so easy to use that every e-news outlet and out-of-work consultant now has an e-site which they do not call a blog, but which Google recognizes as a blog. Of course the e-news channels would not call their site a blog. And [...]
Mountaintop mining, oil sands, and the devastation of empires
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, Coal, Enviromental, Global Warming, Human relations and mining, North America, Oil sands, tagged Alexander, Genghis Khan, Global Warming, Harper, mountaintop mining, Oil sands, wind farm on December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The third and final version of the movie Alexander cost only $5 at the grocery store. I imbibed brandy that cost more than that while watching the movie for three and a half hours. From what I learnt watching the movie, I am now qualified to comment on the EPA’s ruling on mountaintop mining. That is [...]
Minnesota mining debate over copper & nickel
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, Copper, tagged Copper, mining, minnesota, nickel, perpetual water treatement, polymet on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The issue is the same as always: Can a Vancouver company come in and mine a vast reserve of copper and nickel without affecting surface and groundwater. The shenanigans are the same as always: miners say yes, opponents say no, and everybody is lobbying everybody else to subvert the process or advance it to [...]
Ballot Measure 4 fails; Pebble Mine succeeds?
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, Environment, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Reclamation, Waste Rock, tagged acid rock drainage, Alaska, Anglo American, Ballot Measure 4, fish, Pebble Mine, salmon, slimes dames, waste rocks on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Alaska remains a mining state. And the salmon will have to rely on perpetual water treatment to keep ‘em healthy. Currently the news is that Ballot Measure 4 is failing. That is the ballot in Alaska that was designed to stop the Pebble Mine without naming the mine. That is the ballot so full of [...]
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