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Afghanistan & Australian mining and other weekend thoughts

Posted in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Enviromental, Investing & Finance, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Afghanistan mining and the U.S. Navy versus opium and agriculture

Posted in About the news, Asia, blogs, tagged , , , , , , 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!” 

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Mining and demining Afghanistan

Posted in Asia, Copper, Investing & Finance, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2010 | 2 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?

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Papua New Guinea mining update as Ramu Mine gets downdate

Posted in Asia, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, Tailings, acid mine drainage, environmental, tagged , , , , 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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China mining: Rio Tinto and more deaths by a thousand cuts

Posted in About the news, Asia, Law (Mining), tagged , , , on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

   We note without comment this statement by Rio Tinto on their web site regarding the conviction of executives for taking bribes: 

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Almost Clinton: China blocks the blogs and kills the miners

Posted in Asia, blogs, health and safety, mining, safety, tagged , , , , , on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

You do not have to be a Democrat to agree with Hillary Clinton when she says that countries that cannot freely access the internet will be left behind.   I suspect that not only will these countries be left behind, their citizens will die in disproportionate numbers.

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Oyu Tolgoi: For Sale, and a new mining scramble begins

Posted in Asia, British Columbia, Gold, Investing & Finance, People, blogs, tagged , , , on January 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

    Oyu Tolgoi, reportedly one of the biggest copper lodes waiting to be mined, is up for sale.  Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines, the majority owner of the Mongolian deposit that has been decades in the “permitting” process, has put itself up for sale. 

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Is wisdom Vedanta’s mining mantra?

Posted in Asia, Church on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

  Does ICMM have a comment on Vedanta and their mining practices in India?   Namely planning to cut down the trees that are sacred to the local tribe and then proceed to mine?   Now the British Government has told British-registered mining company Vedanta, owned by an Indian national turned Brit, that they have been behaving [...]

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Oscar movies make us better miners

Posted in About the news, Asia, First Nations, Human relations and mining, Latin America, North America, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Movies entertain and enlighten.  I love to go out for a drink and then to a movie and to be able to slip back deep into the seat to be totally enveloped in the warm dark and vivid action and emotion of the movie house.  It is just not the same on the TV, regardless [...]

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BP Sonjica woos Chinese mining investment in South Africa

Posted in About the news, Africa, Asia, Investing & Finance, tagged , , , , , on November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Bush started the rot: issuing presidential orders to keep the grumpy (and angry and vicious) old men on his right happy.   Now Obama promises to reverse many of these orders to quickly put his own stamp on things.  Personally, I find all this executive action scary.  And here are some more very scary statements from [...]

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