From the ChinaDaily.com.cn a report that “Residents of Mianyang, a city in Sichuan province, have begun buying bottled water in a panic after authorities announced that the chief local water source had been contaminated by residue washed away by floodwaters from a local manganese plant.”
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Another Bottle of Water For Failure at China’s Sichuan Mines
Posted in About the news, Asia, Enviromental, environmental, health and safety, tagged bottled water, China, lafarge, longmen moountain, mianyang, sichuan on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Turkish Tailings Dam Failure: All OK According to Authorities?
Posted in About the news, Asia, Cyanide, environmental, Human relations and mining, Tailings, tagged eti silver corporation, fialure, Kutahya, mine, silver, Tailings, turkey on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Barely another day, and another failure of a tailings dam. And a slew of denials and lies from those responsible. Here is part of the longest report I can find on the incident:
How to Invest, and not Loose in Mining Gold
Posted in About the news, Asia, Gold, Investing & Finance, tagged Entree Gold, Fort McMurray, Gold, journalism, Mongolia, profit on May 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Is it possible to loose money mining gold? Nobody wants to loose money mining gold. In the sphere of lose journalism, it is possible to loose money mining gold. Here is a part of one report on a company that “lost” money mining gold.
Why Dams Fail in Mining and Civil Projects
Posted in Asia, health and safety, Mining history, Tailings, tagged bakun dam, blondin, dam, quality control, sinhoydro, verwoerd on April 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes tailings dam fail because of the poor quality of the construction. Sometimes mine geowaste facilities fail because of poor design. On the basis of today’s events, I conclude that they may fail because of poor concepts, poor understanding of the theory, and plain simple incompetence.
Fraser Institute’s 2010-2011 Mining Survey: The Judgement of Paris?
Posted in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, British Columbia, California, Investing & Finance, Latin America, North America, tagged Fraser Institute, fraser institute. judgement paris, judgement paris, mining on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Afghanistan mining and the U.S. Navy versus opium and agriculture
Posted in About the news, Asia, blogs, tagged Afghanistan, drugs, mining, navy, opium, SME, U.S. on June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sitting in the 8:30pm sun of Fort McMurray reading e-mails, I saw this one from my son, who is in the U.S. Navy station in the Pentagon in Washington, DC–he states: “Interesting…maybe it will change the course and purpose of the war!”
Mining and demining Afghanistan
Posted in Asia, Copper, Investing & Finance, tagged Afghanistan, Copper, karzai, mining, Taliban on April 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The idea is so unusual that we must pause to consider it: could mining (the extraction of metals from the ground) help in the demining (removal of explosive devices from the ground) in Afghanistan?
Papua New Guinea mining update as Ramu Mine gets downdate
Posted in acid mine drainage, Asia, environmental, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, Tailings, tagged Chinese, frieda river, nickel, PNG, ramu mine on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Papua new Guinea is an area of renewing mining interest. Xstrata is looking to develop the Frieda River Mine, described thus on their website:
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