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On the right-hand side of this posting is my blog-roll.  Here I list all the blogs that I have found that are true blogs or reasonable facsimiles of a blog about mining.  I have just added a new one to the list.  It is called Beyond Borders.  It is run by Barrick and subtitled Responsible [...]

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In a previous posting on this blog, I made my mining predictions for 2012.  One of them was that we would be regaled by a continuing plethora of articles saying mining will be detrimentally affected by a shortage of workers.  Here is one comment on that posting (I edit for spelling and punctuation): 

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No blog postings this past week.  I have instead taken four long flights and three days of hard work at a new mine in Guatemala.  On the plane, I read many books; on the site, I met many fine miners; on the site, I saw fabulous geology; on paper, we sketched designs for things that [...]

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A casual conversation in the parking garage involved this question: “What are the five tailings failures that set the course of history?”

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Greed, speed, and engineering carelessness all led to the massive failure of the Bellavista heap leach pad in Costa Rica.  The failure of the pad led to the closure of the mine and bankruptcy of the company.  The massive failure is now the subject a major law suite: all parties ever involved are suing and being sued.  [...]

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Bombing Libya and the opera Ariadne Auf Naxos both force us to confront the questions of what is good and what is bad, what is moral and what is amoral, what are gods and men to do in the face of comedy, farce, & tragedy, what to do when the choice is life or death, [...]

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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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  Last month a baby died in Guatemala near the Marlin Mine. The baby died because of the actions of protestors come to disrupt mining operation.

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Have NGOs taken a backseat to narco traders and terrorists in opposition to mining in South America?  This radical question arises as I read the following from a much longer report that I recommend you read in full–it is part of Wikileaks at work: 

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A week of wonders.  Here are some:

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