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The draft report by the EPA on potential mining impacts on Bristol Bay by the Pebble Mine or any of the other seven potential mines in that part of Alaska is published.  Here is a link to one report thereon—there are hundreds of news items, so maybe look for others as well if the topic [...]

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And we went north, to the north of Chile where there is no vegetation and the geology is clear and the beauty is in the rocks and sediment nakedly exposed to the intense blue sky and our curious gaze.  Words cannot describe the power of this landscape which is not on any tourist’s map, for [...]

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In search of books in English, I walked far around the northeast parts of Santiago.  I found a small store at the metro station called Escuela Militar selling books in English.  Before that I had walked past the military school that gives the station its name.  The buildings are forbidding: vast arrays of columns and [...]

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Beaches have a way of attracting attention.  Hoards of curvy North Americans flock each year to ocean-side resorts just to sit in pools and stare at beaches.  Early explorers travelling by sea sought coves with protected sandy beaches to land their parties and fly their flag.  Even whales and sharks, distracted by the bounty of [...]

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Could mining really be this easy?  Cut the ore from the earth like a steady-handed surgeon, and then mend the wound with the salvaged skin of overburden and gangue.  Surely we are not so lucky – we’ve forgotten the tailings – what to do about those pesky tailings?

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With the Paste 2012 conference on mine tailings just a few weeks away in Sun City, I’ve pinched this title from a question posed at the 2008 conference in the paper Surface disposal of paste and thickened tailings – A brief history and current confronting issues.  So thank you to the authors (M. Williams, K. Seddon, and [...]

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Today I tasked myself with finding a different place to look for equipment and new technology in mining. If you Google the title of this piece, TechnoMine have the first set of links that you will be directed to. I decided to view the articles link, as these are the most up to date and [...]

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The night is waning into dawn, and the air is thick with smoke and desperate moves.  The mine mill is still churning off in the distance. The odds are against you – what to do?

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Recall Bill C300 which would have enabled the Canadian Federal government to judge Canadian mining companies accused of sins & trespasses abroad?  It failed by a small margin.  Now a new attempt is being promoted to achieve similar aims, namely enable folk in foreign lands who believe they have been harmed by a Canadian company operating in [...]

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Here is a link to a Licentiate Thesis by Muhammad Auchar Zardari of the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden.  Its title is Stability Analysis of Tailings Dams – Focus on Numerical Modelling.  It is a big document and the connection was slow, but well worth the patience.  I recommend that you download a copy [...]

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