Posted in Africa, Jobs and Salaries, tagged Africa, CostMine, mine, mine manager, mining engineer, salary, South Africa on November 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Just in from CostMine is the 2012 Survey Results for African Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits. This is a first and sure to become a staple of the mining industry and for all those who work or seek to work or mine in Africa. I cannot tell or comment on all in one posting. So here follows a brief survey of the continent as a whole—in future postings I will look at the data for individual countries. (more…)
Posted in About the news, Africa, Investing & Finance, Latin America, Peru, tagged Africa, boart longyear, conga, Malema, Peru, romney, suppliers, Utah on August 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The profit of suppliers to the mining industry is of course tied to the profit of the mining industry. To invest in the mining industry, you may choose instead to average things out, and invest some in those who supply the mining industry. How are they faring? (more…)
Posted in Africa, Human relations and mining, Law (Mining), tagged Africa, alain deneault, Barrick, Mugabe, noir canada, professor, prospectors and developers on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Canadian academics and free speech advocates are up in arms over two mining multinationals’ use of libel law to bury their critics in lawsuits. I quote the most indignant part of the report:
Canadian academics and free speech advocates are up in arms over two mining multinationals’ use of libel law to bury their critics in lawsuits. Alain Deneault, Delphine Abadie, and William Sacher published a book called Noir Canada. Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique that detailed well-sourced human rights abuses by the multinational resource companies Barrick Gold and Banro Corporation. The companies have responded with $11 million in lawsuits, aimed at bankrupting their critics with court fees. Barrick Gold has threatened other publishers on the basis of brief summaries of yet-to-be-published critical books. (more…)
Posted in About the news, tagged Africa, Cuba, mining, PDAC, Taliban, Tibet on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This report on a typically polite Canadian adventure played out at PDAC:
It was peaceful, loud and attention-grabbing. Seven pro-Tibetan activists posed as delegates to a downtown Toronto mining convention yesterday morning, then unfurled a six-metre red banner that read “HDI – STOP MINING TIBET.” Some chanted “Tibet is our land” and “stop mining in Tibet,”while two others laid motionless on the floor under the banner, in what they called a “mock die-in” to protest Canadian mining in Tibet.
Posted in About the news, tagged Africa, diamonds, illegal mining, massacre, Zimbabwe on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We will never know the truth, but here is a report on Africa in action again. If true, this story is so terrible that I interrupt my oath not to report on mining in Africa. I leave you to decide what, if anything, can be done. Here is a quote from the story for those who may wish to read more:
Local residents describe it as a ‘massacre’ in which police and defence force personnel swoop down on thousands of illegal diamond miners, with helicopters – gunning them down, teargassing them inside their tunnels and having them killed with ferocious dog packs.
Posted in Africa, Jobs and Salaries, tagged Adrian Smith, Africa, civil, electirical, Hillbrow, jobs, mechanical, metallurgical, mining on December 15, 2008 | 37 Comments »
In the great mining depression of 1983, I survived by returning to South Africa to work in the mining industry. I will always be grateful to the people and the industry that made it possible for me to pay the mortgage at 18.6 percent and keep the Vancouver kids fed and clothed.
The current economic situation does not yet seem to be putting many North American mining industry folk out of work and we hope it stays that way. But still it is instructive to take a look at the jobs in mining in Africa, just in case you have to do what I did nearly 25 years ago.
As always my source of information is CareerMine. When I last looked there were some 1,091 mining-related jobs in Africa in their list. South Africa accounted for 814 of them, with but 47 in the Congo, 16 in Zambia, 16 in Namibia, 11 in Tanzania, 11 in Madagascar, 10 in Mozambique, 8 in Mali, 8 in Niger, and 7 in Guinea.
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, Congo, Korea, mining, Natural history museum, Smithsonian, The Dominion on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Dominion, News from the Grassroots is a blog that has just run a month of stories on the Canadian mining industry. They are mostly critical: the usual that the oil sands are dirty, that Canadian mining is to blame for the war in the Congo, and stories about opposition to mining by tribes from Thailand to Timbuktu.
Most of their links are to “independent” sites that include “socialist” in the title.
Posted in Environment, People, tagged Africa, mining, Mpai Motloung, South Africa, venmyn on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following piece is by Mpai Motloung. She works for Venmyn, a South African mining investment company. The piece come via a regular e-mail they send me, and others no doubt. I repeat it in its entirety, for it is a new point of view and one worth considering.
This newsletter was entirely inspired by interaction with a certain client who was pursuing a mining project based in a protected area in a north African country. As a conservationist, my first reaction was “there is no way this mining right will ever be granted” to which the client replied “don’t worry, the government would rather have mining than forest”. For me, it was a shocking revelation that such comments can be made in this day and age.
Posted in Africa, health, tagged Africa, AIDS, HIV, mining, Palin 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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