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 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 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 About the news, environmental, Europe, Gold, Investing & Finance, People, tagged andujar, astur gold, cary pinkowski, eia, gold mine, salave gold mine, sapin on November 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Spain was a major source of gold to the Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago. Today a Canadian mining company seeks to reopen or at least extend these old gold resources. (more…)
Posted in environmental, People, Tailings, tagged 2013, andy robertson, belo horizonte, dragons, paste, Tailings on November 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The following is an “article” that I repeat as is from a recent ACG newsletter. Andy Robertson of InfoMine and Robertson GeoConsultants wrote this. The “article” is at its simplest an announcement of an upcoming conference. But at its most complex this is a scary story of potential dragons let loose on the world to scare the populace into non-mining. Here is what he wrote: (more…)
Posted in blogs, brandy, environmental, Latin America, Mining history, Tailings, tagged Arizona, bello horizonte, cement stabilization, New Mexico, paste 2013, Tailings on November 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Drive through the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico and see those magnificent red sandstone cliff, standing proud in spite of thousands of years of erosion. It is one of my favorite sights. It is spectacular to behold. It tells me that landscapes can be the same for very long times. (more…)
Posted in blogs, brandy, California, environmental, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged California, conference, desalination, makeup water, quarry on November 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Another day of webcasts on mining and yet another long argument over the future of mining. We opined in the webcast that filter-pressed tailings is the only way to go with the future of tailings: if a mine cannot afford the costs, they should not begin, for they will not be able to end. Unless they can afford an embankment dam of compacted, durable rock and closure to a site that becomes a place where the rich may recreate like at Cannon Mine that is now a riding stable for the rich. (more…)
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, decomissioning, environmental, Global Warming, Gold, mining, People, Tailings, tagged bristol bay, EPA, Kemess, morrison mine, Pebble Mine, peer review, perpetual management, perpetuity, UMTRA on November 11, 2012 | 7 Comments »
The report by the peer review group brought together to review the EPA report on Bristol Bay and the potential impacts thereon from the Pebble Mine (or other mines that may be developed in the area) is out. (more…)
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