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Coal Black Santorum and His Wealth

Posted in About the news, Coal, Mining history, People, tagged , , , on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Here is one way to make money from mining that I have not hitherto thought of: do what Rick Santorum did.  It is described in a report at this link thus:   “Santorum did not register as a lobbyist, but he aided corporate and other interests as a consultant. He was paid $142,500 by Consol Energy, a [...]

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Santorum, Mining, and Abortion

Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining, People, tagged , , on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Rick Santorum could conceivably be the next president.  I hope not, but it is not my choice. I would prefer Ron Paul; at least I agree with him fifty percent of the time.  Santorum may have a father, or was it grandfather who was miner.  But I find him different from the miners I know.  Miners [...]

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Sunday Sermon: Sex and Ethical Mining

Posted in Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, opera, People, tagged , , , , on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The cost to attend the South African Mining Indaba was R12,000.  So there was another meeting called Alternative Mining Indaba.  A report on that conference is at this link.  The report is long and convoluted.  I have difficulty in working out what their point is, but it is something to do with ethical mining.  A [...]

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Invest? Consider Argus Metals Corp for Guyana Gold, Uranium, and Precious Elements

Posted in About the news, Gold, Investing & Finance, opera, People, Uranium, tagged , , , , , , on February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The golden rule of investing in a junior mining company is to ask and satisfactorily answer the question: who owns & runs the company?  In reality, investors go for juniors because their story is simple; the time-line to profit short; and there is something exotic & mysterious about their ore body.

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No More Thickened Paste Tailings; Lots More Filter-Pressed Dry-Stack Tailings

Posted in People, Tailings, tagged , , , , , , , on February 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »

   On the 31st floor of a Vancouver downtown hotel this afternoon, we attended an open house arranged by Paterson and Cooke.  They presented the opening of their newVancouver office.  And caused me to think a radical thought that I write about here, namely are we entering the era of the end of paste tailings?

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Xstrata & Glencore: Wits & Opera Make Mining History

Posted in Africa, mining, Mining history, opera, People, tagged , , , , , on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The news at this link is that Xstrata and Glencore are going to consummate their marriage.  Analysts will write about the impact another mega-mining company will have on share prices, competition in the mining industry, and the impact of South Africans who fled the country.  I will blog below on some of the more obscure aspects of the [...]

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Mine Safety: Historic Admissions From Greens Creek

Posted in consulting, mining, North America, People, safety, tagged , , , on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

In the past, we have all done silly things at mines that constitute safety violations.  Here I record a drilling program I worked on in 1981 and 1982 at the then-proposed Greens Creek mine in Alaska.  I post with only minor edits what I found last weekend amongst some old papers in the attic.

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Oil Sands and Other Tailings Trafficability

Posted in Oil sands, People, Tailings, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Rummaging through old papers this weekend, I came across a short hand-written piece that I penned in 1982.  I repeat it here with no edits.  This piece is interesting in light of the muddle made by the Alberta ERCB in demanding an oil sand tailings strength of 10 kPa so that the deposit can be [...]

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CIDA Supports Canadian Mining: The Pros & Cons of a Rising Debate

Posted in About the news, blogs, Enviromental, Human relations and mining, People, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Soon after the fall of the Berlin wall, we descended on Wismut, East Germany with proposals to help them cleanup the old uranium mines, mills, and tailings impoundments that the Russians left behind.  The large American consulting firm that I was working for at the time, believed that with our UMTRA Project experience, we were [...]

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Obama, Keystone, and USA & Canadian Mining Jobs

Posted in About the news, British Columbia, oil, Oil sands, People, tagged , , , on January 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The news wires are abuzz with the announcement that Obama has caved into his party’s environmental wing and killed the Keystone pipeline that would have carried Canadian oil to the refineries along the gulf coast.  Obama spluttered some words about reducing car fuel consumption as a way of making up for the jobs the pipeline would have generated.  [...]

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