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The news at this link is that Xstrata and Glencore are going to consummate their marriage.  Analysts will write about the impact another mega-mining company will have on share prices, competition in the mining industry, and the impact of South Africans who fled the country.  I will blog below on some of the more obscure aspects of the [...]

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Today’s MET Opera Satyagraha by Philip Glass, sung in Sanskrit, set in old South Africa, is a mesmerizing theatrical experience.  What there is of a “story” is Gandhi arriving in Natal, then a British colony, finding racialism, leading Indian protests, and twenty years later leaving Natal, by then part of the new (1910) country of [...]

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The news this week has been mainly bad: more crashing stock markets, more idiotic statements from Republican hopefuls, more countries seizing the mines of the country.   The saddest part is that the only idea Republican hopefuls have about resuscitating mining in the US is to abolish the EPA and treat companies like individuals. 

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Here is a conundrum to ponder.  In the posting from yesterday (see posting below this one,) I write of why Vancouver has so many Junior Mining Companies.  Here is part of a private email I received from some-body commenting on what I wrote.  The author of the comment wishes to remain unnamed:

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Here is an advert for a job in Johannesburg, South Africa.  You would be working for an auditing firm (not entirely sure what they do).   Reading the particulars of this job, makes me wonder if there are comparable jobs in the Americas and even Australia. 

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    Growing up on the East Geduld Mine, a gold mine at the far east end of the South African Witwatersrand, we often went to play around the slimes dams and the pools of orange, green, and blue waters that dotted the landscape.   Our parent forbade us to go there, for there were stories [...]

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On a joyous Sunday we would pile into the 1949 Mercury and head for the mine sand dumps. In the boot (trunk) of the car, we had stowed corrugated cardboard cut from old boxes. These precious pieces of cardboard we shaped, as best we understood, like sledges. My father regularly drove us out to those [...]

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Annually the Fraser Institute comes out with a survey of mining countries and ranks them according to how good a place it is to try to find an ore body, to open a mine, to operate a mine.  The Institute gives you a good guide about where to invest.  I pay considerable attention to what they say.  For this [...]

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Canadian academics and free speech advocates are up in arms over two mining multinationals’ use of libel law to bury their critics in lawsuits.  I quote the most indignant part of the report: Canadian academics and free speech advocates are up in arms over two mining multinationals’ use of libel law to bury their critics [...]

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The Mining Indaba is the great South African event on the mining calendar.  Here is a link to a report on the clash of elephants at the conference.  We quote:

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