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Mercury mummies, mining, UFOs, and District 9

Posted in blogs, health on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

   It is Canadian Thanksgiving day and USA Columbus day.  Let us indulge then in one of the stranger blog postings of the past week on mining.  The crux of the story is the find of many mummies in Chile–all dead from mercury poisoning.

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Murray Energy, Faro Mine, and the illusions of mining evolution for the truth

Posted in About the news, Church, Coal, health, tagged , , , , , , , on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

  The world looks different from different places.  I am in Huntington Beach, California where it is raining harder and longer than ever seen in Vancouver.  They are amazingly optimistic here.  The couple who entertained us last night have just completed a $200,000 renovation to the house they bought 20 years ago for about the same [...]

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Bring sexy back to mining

Posted in About the news, Church, Jobs and Salaries, health, tagged , , , , , on January 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »

In the latest issue of The Prospector, fellow blogger and professional journalist Kevin Barker makes a plea to bring sexy back into mining.  He writes:
There are lots of fascinating angles to mining.  There’s exploration, geology, travel, geopolitics, risk and reward…..I happen to think a fully mineralized hanging wall is very sexy, all that glittering metal winking [...]

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Diamonds & Crowns as the ICMM issues new AIDS Good Practice Guide

Posted in Africa, health, tagged , , , , on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Let us turn our gaze from the political conventions in the USA to Africa.  If you can keep your eyes off those $300,000 diamond studs that Cindy McCain is wearing.  Now that is a triumph for mining. 

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Zen and the Art of Rock Bolting

Posted in People, Underground, health, health and safety on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

What sixties hippie could resist a DVD called Zen and the Art of Rock Bolting?  Here is my opinion about a NIOSH health and safety DVD: I wax lyrical and enthusiastic for a minor masterpiece I recommend to all who seek to understand mining and miners.
Last night I settled down in front of the TV with [...]

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How to get LA on the backs of the coal mining industry: make them pay for mine deaths

Posted in About the news, Coal, Community relations, Human relations and mining, Law (Mining), North America, health, health and safety, safety on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here comes a mining-related law suite that will expose the best and worst of the mining industry and the litigation industry.  Attorneys for heirs of seven of the miners killed last August at the Utah Crandall Canyon Mine filed suite Wednesday against the Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) and the Los Angeles Department of Water and [...]

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Western Canada mine exploration health and safety deconstructed

Posted in North America, drilling, exploration, health, health and safety, safety on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

A sobering set of conclusions from a volume called Safety Guidelines for Mineral Exploration in Western Canada published by AMEBC.

Twenty-three years of data compiled by the Health & Safety Committee focuses attention on the most common causes of exploration accidents. The following observations reflect this experience and are provided for the benefit of present and future [...]

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Theologians attack mining from a base of ethical and economic ignorance

Posted in About the news, Community relations, Cyanide, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, North America, People, communication, decomissioning, due dilligence, exploration, health, health and safety, quality, safety, water resources on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Christopher Lind, a theologian at some Toronto University writes a try-to-feel-good attack on mining entitled Mining Companies Challenged by Demands of Ecojustice.  Because he attacks without substance, I feel it fair to counter with vigour.  The good Anglican starts by asking a perfectly reasonable question: 
Is social justice compatible with environmental justice? If social justice requires [...]

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