Integral to any new mine or expansion of a mine is the preparation of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). If you seek to significantly expand the mine’s tailings, waste rock, or heap leach facilities, you may have to prepare a new or supplemental EIA. Here are references to and extacts from some documents that we [...]
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More on EIAs for Mines, New, Expanded, or Closing
Posted in consulting, Enviromental, Environment, Human relations and mining, mining, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged eia, EIS, environmenal impact, mining, Rosemont Copper on March 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sustainability in Mining
Posted in California, Enviromental, Environment, People, tagged continuous conference, environment, mining, Pebble Mine, sustainability on March 14, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Go on to any of the large mining companies websites and you will undoubtedly see images of green fields, expansive boreal forests, and still lakes seemingly touched only by the rays of the sun. This is the image of a company with the environment and people at its core. It is the vision of sustainability [...]
Sage Grouse, Mine Rehabilitation, and Government Deficits
Posted in About the news, Enviromental, environmental, Reclamation, tagged blm, karlsruhe university, Ontario, rare earth, sage grouse on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The proposed 2013 U.S. Federal budget includes $1M “to support research on rare earth elements.” Compare this to the 2013 budget request for the Office of Surface Mining of $140.7M. Compare this to the Bureau of Land Management request for $15M to “implement sage grouse conservation and restoration to help prevent the future listing of the [...]
Groundwater Irrational Decision Making Affects Mining Too
Posted in acid mine drainage, Enviromental, tagged decision making, groundwater, irrational on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The journal of the scientists and engineers division of the National Groundwater Association, is called simply enough groundwater. No capitals that I can find. The contents are learned and often obtuse. Here is the abstract of a paper Rationales Behind Irrationality of Decision Making in Groundwater Quality Management in the January-February 2012 issue. It does [...]
Does Every State Need Its Own Grand Canyon and Its Own Uranium Mine?
Posted in blogs, Colorado, Enviromental, environmental, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, Uranium, tagged Grand Canyon, Pebble Mine, Saskatchewan, uranium mining on January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The news is that the area around the Grand Canyon is off-limits to uranium mining for the next 20 years. The Obama administration has banned new mining near the Grand Canyon, an area known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves, the Associated Press reported.
Frivilous Mining Conundrums: WalkAway Sustainable Solutions
Posted in acid mine drainage, British Columbia, decomissioning, Enviromental, Reclamation, tagged donlin creek, Huntington Beach, wlak away closure on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The sun is shining bright and the day is warm here is Huntington Beach, California, where I am spending time with kids and grandkids. Somehow or other, the pressures of taking the kids to McDonald’s and other diverse hamburger places for lunch, riding the bike down to the beach, being nice at parties to old & [...]
Oil Sands, Conspiracy Theories, and the Keystone Pipeline
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Enviromental, feasibilty studies, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), North America, Oil sands on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a picture of Jacob fighting with the Angel: a fight of good versus better; of logic versus instinct; of theory versus philosophy; of family versus God; and the ultimate biblical story of submission to higher powers.
Another Bottle of Water For Failure at China’s Sichuan Mines
Posted in About the news, Asia, Enviromental, environmental, health and safety, tagged bottled water, China, lafarge, longmen moountain, mianyang, sichuan on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From the ChinaDaily.com.cn a report that “Residents of Mianyang, a city in Sichuan province, have begun buying bottled water in a panic after authorities announced that the chief local water source had been contaminated by residue washed away by floodwaters from a local manganese plant.”
Mine Closure Myths: Walk-Away Closure
Posted in California, Enviromental, environmental, Mining history, North America, tagged bicycle, Huntington Beach, mine closure, myth, Silver chair, UMTRA on January 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today was another perfect Southern California sunny and warm day. We rode our bicycles around the Huntington Beach neighborhood, took a long swim in the solar heated pool, and wallowed in the hot tub. A large chicken-based lunch at Boston Market was the high point of gastronomic indulgence. Now the kids and grandkids are watching the [...]
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