This is the first time on this blog that I copy and post in full a piece written by somebody else. Yet I liked the piece so much that I make free to post in full below. The article comes from an e-newsletter that AMC Consultants send out from time to time. I hope [...]
Archive for the ‘due dilligence’ Category
Due Dilligence in Mining from AMC
Posted in consulting, due dilligence, tagged AMC Consultants, due diligence on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Anvil Mining, the Un-DRC, and NGOs Class Action Law Suites
Posted in About the news, Africa, Community relations, Copper, due dilligence, health and safety, Human relations and mining, Law (Mining), People, tagged anvil mining, Bill C-300, CAAI, DRC, impunity, John Sabine, Kilwa, NGO on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We will have to await the course of fighting lawyers to learn how this story plays out; but even now there is plenty to tell and plenty to cogitate. It all relates to helping the democratically elected government of the DCR kill seventy of its own. In short the story, as I pick it up from a number [...]
$720,000,000 the cost of BHPs non-take-over of Rio Tinto
Posted in About the news, due dilligence on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars were spent on the aborted takeover of Rio Tinto by BHP. Just imagine what that would translate to in share dividends. Instead it was directed to Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street folk for services rendered.
Blog adverts for mining due diligence. Wardrop rules the roost.
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, due dilligence, Gold, Reclamation, tagged acid mine drainage, advert, blog, due diligence, Gold, mining, wardrop engineering on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blogs are no longer biographical logs. The software for posting blogs is so easy to use that every e-news outlet and out-of-work consultant now has an e-site which they do not call a blog, but which Google recognizes as a blog. Of course the e-news channels would not call their site a blog. And [...]
Theologians attack mining from a base of ethical and economic ignorance
Posted in About the news, communication, Community relations, Cyanide, decomissioning, due dilligence, health, health and safety, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, North America, People, safety on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Christopher Lind, a theologian at some Toronto University writes a try-to-feel-good attack on mining entitled Mining Companies Challenged by Demands of Ecojustice. Because he attacks without substance, I feel it fair to counter with vigour. The good Anglican starts by asking a perfectly reasonable question: Is social justice compatible with environmental justice? If social justice [...]
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