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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, racilism, 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, security, 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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Indian mining battles: baby sacrifice versus forest worship

Posted in Asia, Church, tagged , , , , on July 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »

People in Tucson are asking questions about Vedanta and Sterlite, an Indian/British company seeking to take over Asarco, as venerable an old American/non-America mining company as you would find anywhere.
Now it appears the folk in Tucson are simply doing what an 8,000-strong tribe in India is doing:  expressing concern about Vedanta and Sterlite and their [...]

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Better Cindy’s $500,000 than a Mongolian election for successful mining

Posted in Asia, Church, Investing & Finance, tagged , , , , , on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Small American flags have sprouted on the grass outside each of the 400 houses in our California town-house complex.  They were planted there by the local real estate agent who made sure her card was almost as prominent as the flag itself.   If you ignore the advertising component, the flags look rather nice and add [...]

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US and Canadian soldiers die in Afghanistan so tribal leaders and the Chinese can mine for gold

Posted in Asia, Gold, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Tribes fighting tribes for control of resources, for revenge, and for the shear thrill of being young and vicious.  Here is a haunting picture from the New Yorker that has just published a superb piece by Jared Diamond in which he traces the deeds of Daniel Wemp in the New Guinea Highlands as he goes [...]

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The Vatican’s new warnings: No more mining; don’t dare get rich; and recycle or go to hell.

Posted in Asia, Church, tagged , , , , , , , on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Presumably these bishops have the support of the Pope?  In so tightly controlled an organization, it is hard to believe they speak without official sanction.  This is part of a longer report:

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China mine 2007 fatalities exceed 10 a day–what can be done?

Posted in Asia, Coal on January 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It is hard to know whether to be encouraged or appalled.  It is hard to believe the numbers are real.  And it should remind anybody who gushes about the benefits of China taking over mines in Canada or third world countries that not everybody does everything equal.
I refer to the reports that China coal mine accidents [...]

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