With Mitt Romney well on his way to being the next president, I thought it time to examine their attitudes to mining. OK, I know there are a few more pesky elections and attacks on Romney’s for his capitalistic sins (firing excess workers at unprofitable companies) to get through, but still the news snippets are fun. [...]
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Mining Obama vs Romney vs Gingrich vs Ron Paul as Supporters of Mining
Posted in British Columbia, Coal, environmental, Europe, Mining history, North America, People, tagged ann romney, coegnant colliery, david davies, Disney, gingrich, Grand Canyon, mining, Obama, romney, ron paul, vancouver junior, wales on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Wismut uranium mining reclamation conference in May
Posted in environmental, Europe, Mining history, Tailings, Uranium, tagged chemnitz, Tailings, Uranium, Wismut on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the last week of May, folk will gather at this conference: Remediation of Uranium Mining and Processing Sites – Sustainability and Long Term Aspects. This is the part of the story that I know:
Sustainable Reclamation of Post-Mining Cartagena
Posted in Europe, Mining history, Reclamation, tagged Cartagena, Global Warming, Sebla Kabas, sustainable mining, Witwatersrand on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A short posting to start the week. Here is a link to the most fascinating presentation at the Tailings and Mine Waste 2010. It deals with reclamation planning in an area of Spain where mining continued for 2,500 years. That is not a typo: I repeat two-thousand, five hundred years. The presentation was given [...]
CBC on Hungarian Tailings Failure
Posted in About the news, environmental, Europe, Tailings, tagged Candian Mining Association, CBC, hungary, marcal river, peer review, tailings failure, TV on October 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This morning a pleasant-voiced lady from CBC TV called me and asked my opinion about the recent failure of a tailings impoundment in Hungary and its impact on towns, villages, and the Marcal river. I am not sure why she called me—maybe this blog and the opinions I express. She asked simple, direct questions and we [...]
Mine Blasting Memories, Chesa-Sticks, and Sensitive European Caps NXbursT
Posted in drilling, Europe, Mining history, tagged blasting, chesa stick, NXbursT on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The more “popular” this blog becomes, the greater the number of e-mails I receive that extol products and mines and that ask that I write about them on this blog. Maybe popular is not the correct description of this blog—maybe I should be precise and say, the greater number of readers, or just simply hits via [...]
Weekend Mining Reading on Marine Tailings and on European Tailings Management
Posted in Europe, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged disposal, european waste management, marine tailings, Waste Rock on September 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A short posting to recommend some weekend reading. If you go to this link, you will find under the heading New on TechnoMine two newly posted documents:
Athenian Silver Mines at Laurion
Posted in environmental, Europe, Mining history, tagged athens, laurion, mining, silver, slaves on August 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Let us bring crashing down another of those myths: the ancient Greeks were nice folk. Seems they got most of the money to support their poetry, philosophy, development of “democracy,” and sundry other habits from mining. It appears that ancient Greece was a society founded on mining, and the money from mining supported a [...]
Cardiff Mining History
Posted in Coal, Copper, Europe, Gold, Investing & Finance, Mining history, opera, tagged cardiff, Coal, finance, gaul, London, mining, sustainable mining on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cardiff was once the coal mining capital of the world. Just besides the harbor was the coal exchange where the daily price of coal was set. Mining in Wales goes back much further than that. The native-born, Welsh-speaking miner who was my host told me that the Romans in the days of the Empire mined [...]
Rio Tinto pulls out of Saudi mining
Posted in About the news, Europe, tagged aluminium, Body of Lies, DiCaprio, Mark Strong, Rio Tinto, Russell Crowe, Suadi on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night with the usual crews that likes Hollywood action movies, we went to see Body of Lies. In brief, great acting by Crowe and DiCaprio taking out the bad guys (terrorists) in Iraq and Jordan. It certainly aims to leave you believing that one more dead from that part of the world is a good [...]
Gold mining until Justinian’s flea
Posted in Europe, Gold, Mining history, tagged Belasarius, flea, Gold, Islam, justinian, mining, plague on December 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
On the plane over vast northern lands, I read Justinian’s Flea. I had picked up this fascinating book at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in DC the week before. And now I seek the answer to this question: where did Justinian mine all the gold he used to expand the Roman [...]
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