A standard Sunday bike ride: down the hill, along the treed lanes, and to the Lonsdale Quay for lunch. There along the pier was the USS Lake Champlain and thousands of people in line to get closer to see it. (more…)
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Stromer–The Electric Bike I Want
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Enviromental, tagged electric bike, lonsdale quay, stromer, uss lake champian on April 28, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Mine Energy (Mass) Balance: Old Hat or a Missed Opportunity?
Posted in consulting, Enviromental, mining, tagged balance, mass, mine energy on April 18, 2013 | 5 Comments »
This is a picture of the electric car charging station at the local MEC store. Never seen a car here, in spite of the many outdoors-men who shop for expensive clothes and gear to climb mountains, ride bikes, and hike in the woods.
Here are the four e-resources that I found in a search of the first twenty pages of a Google-search using the terms mine energy balance: (more…)
Mine Water Management Best Practice Guidelines and EduMine Webcast
Posted in acid mine drainage, consulting, Enviromental, People, Tailings, Underground, Waste Rock, tagged best practice guidelines, DWA, edumine, mine water management, South Africa on April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Browsing the web earlier this week I came across the site of the South African Department of Water Affairs. There I found the following Best Practice Guidelines relevant to mine water management: (more…)
Tailings Conferences and Guidelines to kill the Black Swan
Posted in Enviromental, People, Tailings, tagged black swan, FLSmidth, ICOLD, MWH, rob williamson, tailings storage facility on January 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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The picture above is of the Black Swan causing havoc. I once wrote a paper that claimed the Black Swan causes tailings failures. The EPA picked the paper up and used it in their report on the Pebble Mine and Bristol Bay to conclude that tailings dams fail. So here as an act of contrition are three reports on recent and upcoming tailings activities aimed at killing the Black Swan. (more…)
Gullbridge Tailings Dam Failure, a failure of oversight and action
Posted in About the news, consulting, Enviromental, Tailings, tagged gullbridge, newfoundland, stantec, tailings dam on January 25, 2013 | 2 Comments »
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In December last year the Gullbridge Tailings Dam, somewhere in Newfoundland, failed. Here is a link to the “best,” i.e., most comprehensive report that I can find. Seems like an engineering report prepared about a year prior to the failure resulted in a total lack of action and, as predicted by the report, the dam failed. Here is a link to the engineering report that lead to inaction. (more…)
Paste 2013: Abstracts Review
Posted in Enviromental, Latin America, Oil sands, Tailings, tagged 2013, belo horizonte, conference, paste on November 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Today I looked through the abstracts submitted for Paste 2013 in Belo Horizonte in Brazil next year. Here is what I wrote—it will be all over InfoMine soon enough. (more…)
Pebble Mine: Politics vs Science & Engineering
Posted in consulting, Enviromental, North America, People, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged Anglo American, jeremy haile, Knight Piesold, Pebble Mine, Tailings on October 2, 2012 | 9 Comments »
The debate–or is it a battle—over the Pebble Mine is becoming so intense that real wounds are being inflicted. Reviewers are resigning and being fired. The Pebble partnership is pressuring Jeremy Haile and his fellows at Knight Piesold into publishing tomes on past tailings failures. Politicians demand full reports on secret deliberations. And the EPA experts are, no doubt, still polishing the prose of their findings. Leaving bloggers to blog. (more…)
Long-Term Covers for Tailings Facilities, Waste Rock Dumps, Heap Leach Dumps
Posted in brandy, Enviromental, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged cover, geomembranes, long term, Tailings, waste rock dump. hjeap leach on September 21, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Almost every day I am asked or confronted by this question: what is the best cover for a tailings facility? (more…)
PDust Control at Mines
Posted in Enviromental, environmental, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged dust. control, mines on June 18, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Home at last after nearly three weeks away in places where mining is flourishing. Too much going out delayed blogging. Here is one piece of advice I got while working and partying. It pertains to control of dust on mines. (more…)
Groundwater and Mining
Posted in acid mine drainage, consulting, Enviromental, Tailings, tagged groundwater, miining, Tailings on June 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The seventh flight of the week in pursuit of mining. From Vancouver to the airport of many names: Santa Ana, John Wayne, or Orange County, California. Call is what you will. The sun is shining, the sea sparkling, and the grandkids lively and curious. (more…)
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