Posted in About the news, Tailings, acid mine drainage, People, environmental, tagged EPA, Pebble Mine, andy robertson, mine water solutions, extreme environments on April 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Just available at this link is the PowerPoint presentation made by Andy Robertson at last week’s conference in Lima, Peru on Mine Water Solution in Extreme Environments. As always, it is fascinating & provocative and informed by his deep understanding of the topic and his international experience looking at mines & tailings dams worldwide. (more…)
Posted in environmental, People, Tailings, tagged 2013, andy robertson, belo horizonte, dragons, paste, Tailings on November 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The following is an “article” that I repeat as is from a recent ACG newsletter. Andy Robertson of InfoMine and Robertson GeoConsultants wrote this. The “article” is at its simplest an announcement of an upcoming conference. But at its most complex this is a scary story of potential dragons let loose on the world to scare the populace into non-mining. Here is what he wrote: (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, consulting, Investing & Finance, Mining history, People, tagged andy robertson, data mining, hans von michaeles, InfoMine, investing on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today we talked about the mining of mining data. Why would you want to mine mining data? Some answers: (more…)
Posted in environmental, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged andy robertson, dragon, ed mcroberts, mine waste, nothung, siegfried, tailngs on November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The conference on Tailings and Mine Waste 11 is ended and we can now sit back and reflect on what it all means. The easiest way to do this is to look at the PowerPoint slides from Andy Robertson’s keynote address. They are now on InfoMine at this link. (more…)
Posted in Reclamation, acid mine drainage, decomissioning, Human relations and mining, Mining history, environmental, tagged Pebble Mine, Witwatersrand, mine closure, andy robertson on September 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The mine closure conference is underway in one of those tourist towns in the Rockies of Alberta. I am not there; somehow the event snuck up on me and I just could not bring myself to go to another conference where I would snooze unceasingly through dull talks in hushed and dark rooms. It is a liberating feeling to know that you have absolutely no desire to go to yet another conference. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, Coal, consulting, Mining history, People, tagged andy robertson, call & nicholas, dave nicholas, failure probability, ned larson, Open Pit, rick call, slope, srk, steffen robertson and kirsten on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rummaging around in old papers this past week, I came across the yellowing paper of a type-writer-typed paper from 1982. I think I went to Edmonton to present the paper at the 4th Open Pit Operators Conference. I vaguely recall a small city perched on the edge of a river—not at all like the city now that it has spread across vast swaths of open country that was once field and nature. (more…)
Posted in blogs, Mining history, tagged andy robertson, edumine, green tomato, hippo, i think mining, InfoMine, SME, TechnoMine on April 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Give or take a few weeks and a few postings, this blog, I THINK MINING, has been “on the air” for about three years and I have written over one thousand postings on almost every topic touching mining. (more…)
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