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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Latin America’ Category
2012 Mining Opportunities & Jobs (In Canada?)
Posted in About the news, California, Colorado, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, Mining history, Oil sands, Peru, tagged 2012, Canada, jobs, mining, opportunities on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
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):
Guatemala Mining, Swearing, and the Hunger Games
Posted in Church, consulting, environmental, Latin America, tagged dicitae labdeae, filthy english, Guatemala, hunger games, irrumator on October 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Slimes dam (aka tailings storage facility) failure and what it meant to my mining midset
Posted in blogs, consulting, decomissioning, Heap leach, Latin America, Mining history, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged Bellavista, Costa Rica, divorce, failure, geowaste, Heap leach, slimes dam, Tailings on April 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A casual conversation in the parking garage involved this question: “What are the five tailings failures that set the course of history?”
Bellavista, Costa Rica and the persistence of mining. How to fix mine failures?
Posted in consulting, environmental, Gold, Heap leach, Investing & Finance, Latin America, People, Reclamation, Uncategorized, tagged Bellavista, Costa Rica, failure, heap leach pad, peter tagliamonte on April 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
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. [...]
It’s Sunday: Bomb Libya; Kill Guatemalan Kids; and Ride Bikes.
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Community relations, Latin America, tagged ariadne auf naxos, Guatemala, libya, marlin mine on March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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, [...]
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 Fraser Institute, fraser institute. judgement paris, judgement paris, mining on March 6, 2011 | 2 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 [...]
Infaticide by Guatemalan Mining Protestors
Posted in About the news, blogs, First Nations, Human relations and mining, Latin America, People, tagged catherine nolan, FREDEMI, Guatemala, marlin mine, protest, San Jose Ixcaniche, university northern british columbia on March 5, 2011 | 7 Comments »
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.
Oppose Mining with NGOs, opium, and drugs. Wikileaks at work.
Posted in Church, Investing & Finance, Latin America, tagged drug, NGO, opium, Peru, wikileaks on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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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