Here is a comment on a previous posting on this blog about the failure of tailings impoundments:
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Who Is Responsible for Mine Tailings Failures?
Posted in Law (Mining), mining, Tailings, tagged failure, innocent, mine, Tailings on May 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
1872 Mining Law Again Under Attack
Posted in environmental, Gold, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), Mining history, North America, Uranium, tagged 1872 mining law, bristol bay, Grand Canyon, joshua tree, Pebble Mine, pew environmental group on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To end the week, a link to a posting attacking the 1872 Mining Law. This is kind of an old topic and one that is opposed by powerful forces in the mining industry. Nonetheless, here is part of the most recent attack:
Mine Closure Criteria–Mere Pebbles in the Wind
Posted in decomissioning, Law (Mining), mining, tagged criteria, mine closure, Pebble Mine on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here to end the week are a few ruminations on closure criteria for mines. Not definitive, nor exhaustive, but fascinating. I wonder which ones they will adopt for the Pebble Mine?
2011 Top 10 Mining Legal Issues. From Borden Ladner Gervais
Posted in Law (Mining), tagged 2011 issues, borden ladner gervais, law, mining on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back in Vancouver to soft rain, as compared to the heavy, torrential rains of Southern California. The e-mail box is full. Here from one of them is an edited version of an e-publication I found interesting—I have edited to focus on mining-related issues. The publication is from a law firm, Borden Ladner Gervais, and they call their “publication” BLG’s [...]
Mine Closure Criteria: Thoughts from Narnia
Posted in British Columbia, environmental, First Nations, Law (Mining), tagged aslan, c. s. lewis, closure, dawn treader, God, mining, narnia on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today we took the California grandkids to see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third in the Chronicles of Narnia. Then we went to Barnes & Noble and bought Prince Caspian, which we had not hitherto seen. We watched Prince Caspian this evening, and so I am now satiated with Aslan, Caspians, Narnians, [...]
Bill C-354: New Threat to Canadian Mining Companies
Posted in British Columbia, Law (Mining), tagged Bill C-300, bill c-354, mining, NDP, peter julian on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just when you thought that Bill C-300 had gone away, a new bill pops up. This one is numbered C-354. At least I think it is.
HudBay Minerals, El Estor, the Fenix Mine, and the Death of Adolfo Ich Chaman
Posted in feasibilty studies, First Nations, Latin America, Law (Mining), mining, tagged adolfo chaman, el estor, fenix mine, Guatemala, hudbay, klippenstein on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps a Canadian court is the only place to sort out the mess that is the story of HudBay Minerals, the Fenix Mine near El Estor in Guatemala, and the death of Adolfo Ich Chaman.
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 [...]
Republic of South Africa Tailings Impoundment Regulations
Posted in Africa, environmental, Law (Mining), Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged dump, impoundment, residue deposit, slimes dam, South Africa, Tailings, Waste Rock on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More on slimes dams, tailings impoundments, and processed geological materials residue deposits. Here is an extract from a recent e-mail setting out the regulations that govern tailings dams in South Africa.
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