Posted in About the news, tagged edumine, exxon, groundwater, mobile, new hampshire on April 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Today a jury in New Hampshire decided that Exxon Mobil should pay the state $236 million. The jury concluded that the oil company had caused MTBE contamination of groundwater at gas stations state-wide, and this amount was Exxon’s share of the cleanup costs. Obviously Exxon said they would appeal the jury verdict, even as their share price rose. This is noted in a full report on the verdict: (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, Geotechnical, Hydrology and hydraulics, People, tagged bc guidelines, dutch portal, edumine, eileen poeter, groundwater. modeling, international hydrology on April 7, 2013 | 2 Comments »
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Why pay if you can get it free? A simple and profound question in today’s e-world where there is so much that is free and so much that is expensive. I ask this question because I have just been alerted to a free course on groundwater modeling. It is on the Dutch Portal for International Hydrology. This is what they say of their course: (more…)
Posted in acid mine drainage, consulting, Enviromental, People, Tailings, Underground, Waste Rock, tagged best practice guidelines, DWA, edumine, mine water management, South Africa on April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Browsing the web earlier this week I came across the site of the South African Department of Water Affairs. There I found the following Best Practice Guidelines relevant to mine water management: (more…)
Posted in acid mine drainage, British Columbia, mining, Open Pit, People, Peru, Software, Tailings, tagged bc guidelines, bernard brixel, edumine, groundwater. modeling, mines, mining, soilvision on March 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Live today on EduMine is a new course: Introduction to Groundwater Modeling for Mines and Mining. The authors are myself and Bernard Brixel. Murray Fredlund and his folk at SoilVision contributed good computer models. (more…)
Posted in acid mine drainage, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged bc guidelines, edumine, groundwater. modeling, mine water management, surface water on February 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in mining, People, tagged edumine, gheeoversity, jacob on December 7, 2012 | 5 Comments »
With the strange name of Ghettoversity, the site nevertheless rounds up information on the simple topic: how to get to university to become a mining engineer. Jacob who runs the site, describes it a “a starting point of research.” (more…)
Posted in brandy, Tailings, tagged edumine, Tailings on November 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The only topic to blog about is the short & long-term future of tailings. These musings are prompted by today’s webcast on tailings by way of thanks to EduMine. Me, Robert Cooke of Patterson and Cooke, plus Ian Hutchison of SES started a three-day, three hours a day webcast on advanced tailings management. (more…)
Posted in About the news, Geotechnical, Heap leach, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged edumine, Heap leach, mine waste, Tailings on October 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A very old friend, now prominent in Australian mining spent the weekend with me. We drank expensive whiskey, which he paid for, and rode many miles on my bikes around Vancouver on a fine sunny fall day. We recounted stories of the old days in South Africa as young & inexperienced engineers and how we solved problems by gut feel rather than knowledge and computer models. (more…)
Posted in Investing & Finance, People, tagged edumine, investment, machael collins, risk on September 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Posted in consulting, People, Tailings, tagged amec, conference, edumine, geoff blight, kimberly morrison, michael davies, steve vick, Tailings, Tailings and Mine Waste, Teck, todd martin on April 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It was almost six months ago that we met at the 2011 Tailings and Mine Waste Conference in Vancouver. It is only six months until we meet at the 2012 conference in Colorado, and before that we have to write the papers. (more…)
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