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Turkish Tailings Dam Failure: All OK According to Authorities?

Posted in About the news, Asia, Cyanide, environmental, Human relations and mining, Tailings, tagged , , , , , , on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Barely another day, and another failure of a tailings dam.  And a slew of denials and lies from those responsible.  Here is part of the longest report I can find on the incident:

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Colorado Supreme Court overturns cyanide in mining ban

Posted in About the news, Cyanide, Gold, Heap leach, People, tagged , , , , , on January 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

      The Colorado Supreme Court has just restored sanity to mining in Colorado.  Basically the justices decided that the state has a “dominant interest” in the regulation of mining activities and individual counties cannot go doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things to regulate mining. At this link is the report that tells of the [...]

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The Cyanide Test: Joan, Jared, or Will for/against Colorado mining

Posted in Cyanide, People, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Is the Colorado Mining Association just being cautious or coy in not coming to the rescue of a politician who once stood up for the use of cyanide?   Here are some of my thoughts on the scrap to get to Congress between three Colorado politicians who are invoking, or failing to invoke, their past support [...]

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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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Tico Times tells the Bellavista human story; greed, incompetence, and distress

Posted in About the news, Cyanide, Enviromental, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Latin America, Law (Mining), Mining history on January 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »

From the Costa Rica Tico Times comes a long article on the human impact of the closure of the Glencairn Bellavista mine as a result of the downhill sliding of the heap leach pad.  As told in the Tico Time we learn of the joys of a mine bringing money and employment to the locals, [...]

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Costa Rica’s Bellavista heap leach pad continues its downhill slide along with Canada’s reputation

Posted in Cyanide, Heap leach, Latin America on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The Bellavista Heap Leach Pad is failing: the whole mass appears to be sliding down the hill.  Since we first wrote about this situation, things appear to have progressed downhill, both institutionally and physically.  The company that developed the mine, Glencairn, appears to have or is about to: (a) suffer a share value decline; (b) post [...]

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A rare investment opportunity courtesy Mineweb, Haber Gold, Etruscan Resources, and Ghana

Posted in About the news, Africa, Cyanide, Gold, Investing & Finance on August 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »

If this is all true, then we should all be beating a path to their door. The report by that (normally) superb reporting group Mineweb, reads (in part): Haber Inc an Arlington, USA-based scientific research company that claims to have developed a technology for the environmentally friendly processing of gold-bearing ores, will seek gold in [...]

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