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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Opera, dictators, and Wismut uranium tailings cleanup: untold stories for the ages
Posted in Europe, Mining history, opera, Uranium, tagged Fidelio, Il Corsaro, opera, remediation, Tailings, Tristan and Isolda, Uranium, Vancouver opera, Wismut on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A weekend of opera. Saturday morning’s five-hour-long Tristan and Isolde live from the Met by high definition satellite to the local cinema. A feast of splendor about love induced by lust and potion–with all the emotions that betrayal and adultery attend. Dreseden Opera House – Photo by By Uncle Budda — see flickr.
PDAC blog blah; but earthquakes from Germany
Posted in About the news, Coal, Europe, Underground, tagged earthquake, Hagee, ICMM, McCain, mining, mining-induced seismicity, Northridge earthquake, PDAC, porn, responsible mining, sustainable development on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not much is happening at the PDAC to judge from their “Blog.” Yesterday’s profound entry is two sentences long. The first reads: “Chilean Minister for Mining, Santiago Gonzalaz, hosted a Mines and Wines event to launch their country’s first ever attendance to the Convention.” Why would you bother with the second sentence? In fact why [...]
More on Bill & Frank in Kazakhstan: a mere sop for Hillary
Posted in Europe, Investing & Finance, Uranium on February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Media Matters for America notes the following about the Bill & Frank Kazakhstan mining show: In an article about former President Bill Clinton’s September 2005 trip to Kazakhstan with Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra, The New York Times suggested that Giustra was able to secure agreements giving his company the right to buy into Kazakh [...]
Bill & Frank versus Hillary re Kazakhstan uranium mining: what the bloggers are saying
Posted in About the news, Europe, Human relations and mining, People, Uranium on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra visiting Kazakhstan to enjoy a midnight banquet with its president has the bloggers running eloquent. Here are a few of the choice comments:
Bill and Frank corner Kazakhstan uranium mining: did anybody tell Hillary?
Posted in About the news, Europe, Investing & Finance, People, Uranium on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the New York Times, we learn of Clinton having greatly helped Giustra sew up the rights to mine uranium in Kazakhstan. In return Clinton got $31 million. The story is long and involved and everybody denies everything. Just witness this typical quote: A spokesman for Mr. Clinton said the former president knew that Mr. Giustra [...]
Post-Mining Alliance sets out to “regenerate” orphan & abandoned mines
Posted in Community relations, Europe, Reclamation on December 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Somewhere in Cornwall, England is a site called Post-Mining Alliance. Whoever they are, they have set themselves an unprecedented set of objectives (I would say un-achievable, but that is for you to decide and them to prove me wrong.) Here is how they say what they are and what they will do:
Kennecott, the US EPA, and Kisladag: can the US teach Turkey?
Posted in About the news, Enviromental, Europe, Gold, North America on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency have announced that Kennecott Utah Copper, the second largest domestic U.S. copper producer, has agreed to abide by the terms of a federal consent decree to continue to implement a comprehensive cleanup of groundwater contamination from past mining operations related to the massive Bingham Canyon copper [...]
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