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Rio Tinto Ranger Mine Water Disaster Repeat of the Past of Too Many Slimes Dams

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, consulting, Investing & Finance, Mining history, Tailings, Uranium, tagged , , , , , on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Here is a picture of a mining disaster waiting to happen.  This is a mine in Australia that is shut down because too much rain has filled their tailings impoundment and they appear to have no facilities to treat water hence to release it. 

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Weekend Sermon: Anglican Bishop Attacks Mining; while BC Celebrates Mining; and Australian Mining Salaries Hit the Roof.

Posted in Oil sands, Australia and New Zealand, Church, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, North America, British Columbia, tagged , , , , , , on May 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Sunday night looking to Monday and a day on the oil sands mines.  Flew from rainy Vancouver to sunny Fort McMurray.  Tomorrow we will deal with issues of surface water management and the failure of sand berms inundated by ponded water.  A salutary lesson in the need for proactive and conservative planning before starting construction. 

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Neil Jagger, Supaflo, and Mining in Cloying Prose

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, communication, Metallurgy, People, tagged , , , , on April 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »

  Hyperbole and inflation in advertizing to the mining industry is an expected standard.  But the prose posted on the web about Neil Jagger reaches new heights of cloying adulation.  This would be forgivable were the prose precise and readable; but when the grammar is suspect and the intent even more suspect, we can but [...]

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Rum Jungle, Australia. Failure of Uranium Mine Closure Works

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Mining history, Reclamation, Uranium, tagged , , , on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

  It is crass to take pleasure in the failure of arrogant people to achieve what they once bragged they would do.  Yet I cannot suppress a faint, incorrect spark of a smile when I read of the failure of the closure works at the Rum Jungle Uranium Mine, near Darwin, Australia. 

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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 , , , on March 6, 2011 | 3 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 [...]

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Mining’s Role in the Australian Economy

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Jobs and Salaries, tagged , , on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »

    At this link is a ten-page paper entitled Structural Change in the Australian Economy.  It makes for interesting reading if you care about the role and contributions of mining to the Australian economy.  Here is just one paragraph that sums it up:

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Water in Mining: Use & Abuse of the Conference Vacation

Posted in acid mine drainage, Australia and New Zealand, consulting, Oil sands, tagged , , , on September 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »

   This is why this is the first blog posting this week: a visit to the oil sands to consult; and a big meeting with a client from the Northwest Territories who is faced with an expensive decision.  Along the way, plenty of opportunities to chat and eat with great mining people.  I sometimes wonder [...]

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Ruddy Australian Mining Tax Kills PM

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Investing & Finance, People, tagged , , , on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

   The end of the story is neat and tidy:  Rudd, the former Australian Prime Minister is out and a new lady is in.  Rudd was outed (or is it ousted) in part by his bungled attempt to foist a 40% tax on Australia’s mining industry.   For the mining industry and shareholders thereof, this is [...]

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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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Sunday Mining Sermon: Perth, Gallowai Stanfield, and Bill C-300

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Church, Investing & Finance, tagged , , , , on May 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »

   Hence from Perth on a gruelling flight to LAX.  A flight designed to tire you out if you need more than four hours a night sleep, even though you theoretically get four from Perth to Sydney and twelve from Sydney to Los Angeles.  At least you have plenty of time to contemplate the state of [...]

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