Can you help a Russian mining engineer? I often get personal emails from readers of this blog seeking advice or help. I cannot help them all; but I try to answer them all and give my opinion that might help them.
Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category
Russian Mining Engineer Seeks Advancement
Posted in Europe, Jobs and Salaries, tagged engineer, russia on April 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Mining Subsidence and Loss of Water to Mines
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, environmental, Europe, Mining history, North America, Underground, tagged Coal, mining subsidence, woronora on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” comes to mind when you look at the above photos. I was talking to a colleague about his trip to Timmins, Ontario for an Undergraduate Geological Engineering field trip to visit the old gold and base metal mines. I too had to share a few [...]
Cover Technology in Mining: Wismut to Suncor’s Pond 5
Posted in Europe, North America, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged covers, pond 5, Suncor, Tailings, wick drains, Wismut on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Clap! The sound a big volume of mining proceedings made when it landed on my desk this morning. Dropped from on high, this volume is the collection of technical papers from an International Symposium on closure of uranium mines at Wismut in Germany. If you haven’t heard of Wismut, then I suggest you get a [...]
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 »
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. [...]
Wismut uranium mining reclamation conference in May
Posted in environmental, Europe, Mining history, Tailings, Uranium, tagged chemnitz, Tailings, Uranium, Wismut on April 26, 2011 | 1 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 [...]
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