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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Elephants Crash at Mining Indaba
Posted in About the news, Africa, Investing & Finance, tagged Cynthia Carroll, Indaba, Malema, nationalization, Susan Shabangu on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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:
Mining History and Cooking to Entertain Grandkids as an Old Mining Consultant
Posted in Africa, Asia, Mining history, tagged cooking, Fuji, grandkids, Japan, U.S. Navy on January 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The easiest way to start kids off in that most entertaining pastime, cooking, is to buy one of those pre-prepared pizzas. Take the kids to the grocery store and let them help choose the frozen pizza. Get them home and get them involved in removing the wrapping, choosing a dish, setting it on the dish, [...]
The Residual Value of a Diamond Mine: Towards a Secure Philosophy of Mine Closure
Posted in Africa, Community relations, decomissioning, Diamond, Jobs and Salaries, Reclamation, tagged Botswana, closure, Diamond, mine, philosophy, value on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The art, or is it science, of mine closure is still a youngster. There is no agreed fundamental philosophy or even technical approach. This is strange when you consider that mining has been around for a long time and many mines have been worked out. Most have been abandoned as the many abandoned mine [...]
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.
Remembrance Day: Lest We Forget
Posted in Africa, People, tagged Brett, marriage, pearl harbor, Pentagon, remembrance day on November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On Remembrance Day, or Veterans Day as it is called in other places, I choose this photo from deep in my files. It shows my uncle on his wedding day, a year or two after the Second World War. He, as had my father and so many of their generation, had just survived five brutal [...]
The Week in Mining: Investing in Chile, Congo, and China
Posted in About the news, Africa, health and safety, Investing & Finance, Latin America, tagged Bill C-300, Chile, China, Congo, investing, mining, NGO, rape on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Watching National Public Radio this evening induces weekend reflections on a week in mining. The good news story is the final rescue of the Chilean miners–now back with family, wives, mistresses, and the press. The bad-news story is rape of villagers in the Congo. The endless story is the death toll in Chinese mines. We [...]
ANC and why South Africa’s mines should be nationalized
Posted in Africa, mining, People, tagged Malema, mines, nationalize, South Africa on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a link to the statement by the ANC on why the mines of South Africa should be nationalized. This is a discussion document prepared for the ANC Youth League at their planned League National Council Meeting on 23 to 27 August.
Why Not? A Personal History of Mining in South Africa
Posted in Africa, Mining history, tagged East Geduld, Evander, history, mining, South Africa on April 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The weekend looms. Nothing serious to say about mining. Thus here is something I found last night in my e-files while cleaning things up. It is a mere set of personal recollections fo growing up on a mine in South Africa in the 1950s. Enjoy it for what it is.
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