These past two days we have been in sunny Vail, Colorado at the conference on tailings and mine waste. Sadly you will have to buy the volume from the organizers to read the papers. With a bit of patience, we will post some of the presentations on InfoMine in the near future. Meanwhile let us urge [...]
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Tailings and Mine Waste 2010
Posted in Enviromental, environmental, Heap leach, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged Directive 74, ERCB, mine waste, Morgenstern, Oil sands, Sobokowicz, Tailings, Vail on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Finding Far Away by Lisa Wade: A Tale of Mining in Peru
Posted in Enviromental, environmental, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, People, Peru, tagged finding far away, Goldcorp, Guatemala, lisa wade, Peru on July 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is a review of the book Finding Far Way by Lisa Wade. Book reviews tell as much about the reviewer, and maybe more, than they tell of the book and its author. This review is highly colored by the fact that I have consulted to Lisa on a project in Guatemala where she [...]
Afghanistan & Australian mining and other weekend thoughts
Posted in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Enviromental, Investing & Finance, tagged Afghanistan, Australia, investment, mining on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Friday is upon us, so here are a few idle thoughts to ponder over the weekend. Re Afghanistan mining, I refer you to this link where we read: A Chinese state-owned firm has already been awarded the concession for a copper mine in eastern Afghanistan. Many mining industry executives say they expect the Chinese [...]
Sunday Sermon: Family and the Faith & Fury of Mining. Or impious reflections on Guatemala, Marlin, and Goldcorp
Posted in Church, consulting, Enviromental, First Nations, Gold, Investing & Finance, Latin America, Mining history, opera, tagged ballet, coyote, drugs, el salitre, Goldcorp, Guatemala, Gunoud, marlin, opera, Pentacostalism, religion, Roman Catholic, Romeo and Julie, Romeo and Juliet, sermon, United Church of Canada on May 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Tomorrow is Sunday, so we might as well write a sermon on truth.
Central America mining redux: Costa Rica and Guatemala
Posted in British Columbia, California, Enviromental, environmental, Heap leach, Latin America, Mining history, tagged Bellavista, bleak house, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Pebble Mine on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am in Guatemala as a consultant. You can probably work out for yourself where I am. Right now the reason for being here is confidential; hopefully the reports will soon be public and we can comment on public documents.
David Suzuki swims the oil sands mining streams
Posted in Enviromental, Oil sands, People, tagged david, Fort McMurray, keg, Oil sands, Suzuki on May 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Another week earning an honest living working for the mining industry, in this case the oil sands of Fort McMurray. On evening we wondered into the pub part of the Keg, arguably the best and certainly one of the most expensive restaurants in Fort McMurray. I looked around in frustration for there was no free tables, all taken [...]
El Salvador – Gold, Guns, and Choice
Posted in Enviromental, environmental, feasibilty studies, Gold, health and safety, Latin America, tagged corruption, el salvadro, mining, murder, pacific rim on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The title of this piece, El Salvador–Gold, Guns, and Choice, is the title of a report that recently came my way. If you are interested in the issues of social justice, mining, and death in Central America, I recommend you follow the link I provide to the full document. It will repay your time, although [...]
Avatar as a criticism of mining or a reflection of deep cultural memory
Posted in blogs, Church, Community relations, Enviromental, First Nations, Human relations and mining, Latin America, Mining history, tagged avatar, Bill C-300, james cameron, nonobtainium, Pebble Mine, sustainable mining, tribe on January 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
My grandson, four-years old, and me went this afternoon to see Avatar. This is the billion-dollar-grossing movie from James Cameron that is now all the rage.
Mining professor denies global warming and espouses evolution
Posted in Church, Enviromental, Global Warming on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The heat is bringing out the nuts. The low hanging fruit are the professors who are doing silly things and making asinine statements. We all know about that Harvard fellow who got the President into a pickle—or was it the president who blundered into another misjudgement of old men who sound profound, but who in [...]
SME, climate change, and mining risks & challenges
Posted in About the news, Enviromental, Global Warming, tagged Diavik, Ekati, fire, floods, Global Warming, mining, Rio Tinto, SME on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
SME is over and now we have time to slip the CD of Preprints into the computer to read the technical papers. The sad part is that most of those who presented talks did not bother to prepare a paper. And no provision has been made to collect, disseminate, or archive their PowerPoint presentations. [...]
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