Not sure how I missed this one: a genuine blog from a major mining company. Goldcorp has a blog at this link called above GROUND ONLINE; Our World of Community Responsibility. (I try to reproduce color and capitalization from the blog.) (more…)
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Goldcorp’s Blog: Above Ground Online
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Giant Mine to Cost Many Billions to Cleanup and Lookafter for Thousands of Years
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Giant Mine, handford, hanford, INAC, yellowknife on April 2, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Bryan Hymel and a Met Opera Triumph: Les Troyens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bryan hymel, deborah voigt, les miserables, les troyens, met opera, paul appleby, susan graham, the hobbit on January 6, 2013 | 2 Comments »
It is infinitely better entertainment than The Hobbit or Les Miserables. Today we spent more than five hours in the glorious production live from the Met of Les Troyens. Also saw The Hobbit and Les Miserables this past week, but today’s Met production proves yet again the infinite superiority of great opera as pure entertainment, however long. (more…)
Gold Fever: a new set of lies from Iowa about the Marlin Mine, Guatemala
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged andrew sherrburne, filmscene, gold fever, Goldcorp, Guatemala, hardacre film festival, marlin mine, tommy haines, university of iowa on January 3, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Gold Fever is yet another in a long line of lies about mining, blasting, and house cracking. Here is a link to the film. I could not raise the sound, but the images are visual enough to let you know that once again this is scandalous propaganda not based on facts or even elementary investigation–just another pastiche of pictures of weeping women and cracked houses attributed to mine blasting. (more…)
2012 in review
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 270,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 5 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
Limestone Mining Petition, Powered by Potatoes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aggregates, Melanchton, mining, ministry, quarry on November 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This week a victory for potato farmers and a reminder that poorly devised mine plans can and should face tough criticism in the public domain. As a native Ontarian, I can’t help but share some perspective and links on the matter.
North Vancouver Art & Graffiti
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, graffti, North Vancouver, statue on October 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A short photo essay from today’s ride. First the pedestrian bridge across the Lynn River just east of the house.
Looking upstream: the river itself.
Then some more graffiti, always fascinating.
A part of a statue outside a store.
Found objects that could be graffiti or art or just a set of things.
Finally an old truck posing as public art.
PS. See this link for last week’s graffiti photos. It is a great art form. Why do people suppress and deny it?
Salaries of Chemists in Canadian Mining
Posted in Copper, Diamond, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, mining, North America, Oil sands, Uncategorized, tagged chemical engineer, chemist, Chile, lucrestius, salary, stephen greenblatt, the swerve on September 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just back from Chile. Long, grueling flights, and airport lounges. The benefits, few as they are, included the chance to read Stephen Greeenblatt’s The Swerve. It is the story of the recovery of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, a long poem in Latin from the BC era. I have ordered both the original Latin version and two translations. For this is of the things I believe. I leave you to read more if you are curious. (more…)
National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Jamie Caswell , Communications Manager for the National Mining Association sent me this email:
I wanted to share an update with you on NMA’s latest progress. Recently, NMA President and CEO Hal Quinn traveled across the country to meet with scholars, policymakers, scientist and CEOs. At the meeting, Quinn and other participants readily acknowledged the importance of minerals to the lives of Americans and job growth in this economy. (more…)
James Cameron and Asteroid Mining has the GOP Worried
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asteroid mining, illegal aliens, james cameron on June 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
WASHINGTON (CAP) – A proposal to begin mining asteroids for natural resources has GOP lawmakers up in arms over the prospect of illegal aliens taking asteroid mining jobs from Americans. (more…)
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