Monday and to serious mining topics. Today’s topic is mining impact benefit agreements. I received an email from somebody asking me what I knew of the topic. Very little in truth. I sought help and this is the reply I received:
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Mining Impact Benefit Agreements
Posted in First Nations, Jobs and Salaries, North America, mining, British Columbia, tagged aboriginal, Ekati, First Nations, mining, PDAC, impact benefit agreement on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Xstrata & Glencore: Wits & Opera Make Mining History
Posted in Africa, mining, Mining history, opera, People, tagged glencore, Goldcorp, opera, university, Witwatersrand, Xstrata on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The news at this link is that Xstrata and Glencore are going to consummate their marriage. Analysts will write about the impact another mega-mining company will have on share prices, competition in the mining industry, and the impact of South Africans who fled the country. I will blog below on some of the more obscure aspects of the [...]
Mine Safety: Historic Admissions From Greens Creek
Posted in safety, North America, People, mining, consulting, tagged Greens Creek, srk, syd hillis, drilling on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the past, we have all done silly things at mines that constitute safety violations. Here I record a drilling program I worked on in 1981 and 1982 at the then-proposed Greens Creek mine in Alaska. I post with only minor edits what I found last weekend amongst some old papers in the attic.
New Zealand Mining Debate: Lamb vs Lignite?
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, mining, tagged lamb, mining, mutton, new Zealand, straterra on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Growing up in South Africa, we ate a great deal of mutton. It was cheap & available. I knew nothing of steak and salmon until I got to Vancouver, where salmon is cheap & available. Yet I still long for the gamey taste of mutton. I found it once in Mexican Hat in the Navajo [...]
Mining in Brazil. Vale Lauded. Omissive & Peccant Mining.
Posted in environmental, mining, Mining history, tagged Brazil, ferrifero, mining, omissive, peccant, quadrilatero, Vale on January 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
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.
National Mining Association Announcement
Posted in About the news, mining, tagged jamie caswell, national Mining Association on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To repeat an email from Jamie Caswell of the National Mining Association—seems like a spark of good news in an otherwise contrary scene: Last year, our Minerals Make Life program raised awareness about the contribution of minerals to economic growth, innovation and national security in America. Thanks to these efforts, we saw the momentum around [...]
Project Objectives for Management of Tailings, Waste Rock, and Heap Leach Pads
Posted in communication, Heap leach, mining, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged hepa leah pad, project management, projective objectives, Tailings, Waste Rock on January 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Today I was criticized for failing to clearly set out the project objectives. Damn me, I know what we are setting out to do. “But the rest of us do not,” was the reply. And so I wrote out the project objectives in deliberate detail. And that set me writing the rest of this posting. [...]
Boomerang: Chance Mining Encounters in Vancouver
Posted in British Columbia, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, mining, People, tagged bold, boomerang, Canadian, michael lewis, proud, the big short, Vancouver. junior mining company. investment on December 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A chance encounter in the gloomy streets of gloomy Vancouver today resulted in a brief conversation about the new book by Michael Lewis called Boomerang, Travels in the New Third World.