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The Wisconsin legislature has just posted a proposed new law on mining in the state.  The full document is available at this link.    At 191 pages it is not a short read; but it is a must-read.  And it is a fascinating read.  It is serious and sometimes frivolous.  Consider these sections that caught my eye on [...]

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     Seldom on a Sunday is there a good book about mining to read.  Today I hit the jackpot.  I read Understanding Mining Around the Quadrilatero Ferrifero.  A formidable title, but an easy and pleasant read.   Three authors are listed: Paulo Tarso Amorim Castro; Herminio Arias Nalini Junior; and Hernani Mota De Lima. 

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With Mitt Romney well on his way to being the next president, I thought it time to examine their attitudes to mining.  OK, I know there are a few more pesky elections and attacks on Romney’s for his capitalistic sins (firing excess workers at unprofitable companies) to get through, but still the news snippets are fun.  [...]

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The news is that the area around the Grand Canyon is off-limits to uranium mining for the next 20 years. The Obama administration has banned new mining near the Grand Canyon, an area known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves, the Associated Press reported.

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Once more on the topic of unemployment and the role of mining in giving people jobs.  Today I received the following from the  U.S. National Mining Association, and it is an honor to be asked and to be able to comply.  Jamie Caswell writes as follows:

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Today’s Globe and Mail reports: “The Harper government has approved Canada’s fifth oil sands mine after the project spent six years under regulatory scrutiny, prompting a senior cabinet minister and energy executives to argue lengthy reviews are unacceptable.”

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Here are some careers in mining working on the tailings impoundment, tailings storage facility, containment facility, or whatever it is called locally.

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The conference on Tailings and Mine Waste 11 is ended and we can now sit back and reflect on what it all means.  The easiest way to do this is to look at the PowerPoint slides from Andy Robertson’s keynote address.   They are now on InfoMine at this link.

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From the ChinaDaily.com.cn a report that “Residents of Mianyang, a city in Sichuan province, have begun buying bottled water in a panic after authorities announced that the chief local water source had been contaminated by residue washed away by floodwaters from a local manganese plant.”

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Mining made the metals and money; so today I bought a new bicycle.  I do not need a new bike, but what the hell, it is beautiful and so light that I can pick it up with two fingers.

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