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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The National Mining Association on Mining Jobs
Posted in About the news, blogs, environmental, Global Warming, Jobs and Salaries, tagged bill wilson, jobs, national Mining Association, nma, obamaccare, taxes on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Durban, Koyoto, Mining, and Global Warming in Perspective
Posted in About the news, Global Warming, Mining history, tagged durban, Global Warming, koyoto, miing on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For no good reasons that need detain us here, I recently had occassion to go back through old I THINK MINING blog postings. I was surprised to see how much I had written on the topic of global warmining in 2007 and thereafter. The surprise is how little things have changed in those years since I first took [...]
Ethical Mining: Oil, Gold, Platinum
Posted in About the news, blogs, British Columbia, Church, Global Warming, Investing & Finance, tagged ehtics, Gold, mining, Oil sands, responsible mining, sustainable on July 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
One of the privileges of being Canadian and American is that we can ask the question: What is ethical mining? Forget those trite old questions about sustainable mining and responsible mining! One of the privileges of being South African and a blogger is that we can answer the question: What is ethical mining?
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 [...]
UMTRA, INAC, and a New Canadian Mine Closure Criterion for Global Warming
Posted in British Columbia, Global Warming, mining, North America, Reclamation, tagged A, Canada, Faro Mine, Giant Mine, Global Warming, INAC, mine closure, North West Territories, UMT on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a small Japanese restaurant near the office, we discussed global warming’s impact on mining. The Environmental VP of an auspicious mining company said that their mining company’s policy was to exhort each mine to come up with their own plans to deal with the issue. Fat chance!
USA Election 2010: What Will It Mean for Mining?
Posted in About the news, California, Coal, Global Warming, Gold, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, mountaintop mining, North America, People, tagged 2010, Alaska, Democrat. Republican, election, gays, Libertarian, military, mining, Palin, politician, ron paul on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today being election day in the USA, we speculate on what different outcomes may mean for mining. Beware: this posting may offend. It is, however, pure bloggery: speculative and prevaricative.
Mining Travel & A Broad Mind
Posted in Global Warming, Human relations and mining, Mining history, tagged broad mind, mining, navy, travel on August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today, we travel for work, escapism/pleasure, and information. In the past, the only travellers were soldiers, sailors, warriors, merchants, and crazy adventurers. Today old ladies go to Turkey to see the sights; in the past only society’s misfits would venture that far. Think of Alexander and his belligerents travelling from Macedonia to India. Think [...]
Perpetual mining: what does long term mean? Confounding Pebble Mine, the BP oil spill, and nuclear energy.
Posted in consulting, environmental, Geology, Global Warming, Mining history, Uranium, tagged bp oil, design, Pebble Mine, perpetual, uranium mill tailings remedial action. UMTRA on May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This posting is intended as a small contribution to the debate about the Pebble Mine in Alaska. This posting is prompted by the oil in the sea from those who prefer oil to uranium. That is the miner in me talking. Sorry to the oil and gas men. And to the birds and [...]
The Mining Week in Review
Posted in About the news, Africa, California, Global Warming, Gold, Mining history, tagged California, Global Warming, mining, South Africa, wine on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As the week winds down, here are some of the more way-out postings I have encountered this week on the subject of mining:
Does the religion & crusade of global warming impact the mining industry?
Posted in About the news, Church, Global Warming, Investing & Finance, opera, tagged conference, copenhagen, Global Warming, mining, Rio Tinto, Uranium on December 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sunday and time to contemplate on religion. Not necessarily the church type, rather the secular.
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