Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, environmental, People, Tailings, tagged andy robertson, EPA, extreme environments, mine water solutions, Pebble Mine 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 About the news, British Columbia, decomissioning, environmental, Global Warming, Gold, mining, People, Tailings, tagged bristol bay, EPA, Kemess, morrison mine, Pebble Mine, peer review, perpetual management, perpetuity, UMTRA on November 11, 2012 | 7 Comments »
The report by the peer review group brought together to review the EPA report on Bristol Bay and the potential impacts thereon from the Pebble Mine (or other mines that may be developed in the area) is out. (more…)
Posted in About the news, blogs, brandy, consulting, Investing & Finance, mining, People, tagged bristol bay, dirk van zyl, EPA, hogwash, Pebble Mine, peer review on August 21, 2012 | 5 Comments »
More “expert” comments from the EPA Bristol Bay Peer Reviewers as culled from recent news reports. None are particularly insightful or grammatical. One even uses near-profanity: hogwash. Now that is a nice term, more common in Iowa than Alaska. Certainly, it is more acceptable in polite circles than the equivalent from Montana or other beef-producing places. Or even from urban areas plagued by increasing populations and decreasing funds to deal with the ultimate human wastes. (more…)
Posted in About the news, blogs, brandy, environmental, feasibilty studies, North America, People, Tailings, tagged Anglo American, dirk van zyl, EPA, northern dynasty, Pebble Mine on August 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
As I predicted and feared, the peer review panel opining on the EPA report on the Pebble Mine, turned out to be a group of cowards and academic ineptitudes. They took refuge in statements of “not enough.” They were unable to go beyond platitudes. Here are some of their vacuous statements–I focus on the reported statement by Dirk Van Zyl who is a nice guy who always seeks the path of compromise: (more…)
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, environmental, People, Tailings, tagged biogeochemist, dirk van zyl, EPA, InfoMine, Pebble Mine on June 10, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I must return to the topic of the Pebble Mine. What is happening there is so extreme and contentious that it is setting the pinnacle (and possible the standard) for debate about opening new mines in sensitive places. (more…)
Posted in About the news, acid mine drainage, consulting, environmental, feasibilty studies, First Nations, Gold, Investing & Finance, mining, North America, tagged Alaska, Anglo American, bristol bay, EPA, fish, Pebble Mine on May 19, 2012 | 15 Comments »
The draft report by the EPA on potential mining impacts on Bristol Bay by the Pebble Mine or any of the other seven potential mines in that part of Alaska is published. Here is a link to one report thereon—there are hundreds of news items, so maybe look for others as well if the topic interests you. (more…)
Posted in blogs, consulting, environmental, Human relations and mining, North America, tagged EPA, Obama, Pebble Mine, peer review, politics, review, romney on May 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Background: In response to requests, the U.S. EPA has undertaken to review the Pebble Mine. They are apparently acting in terms of the Clean Water Act, although many dispute their authority to do so. The review is taking place before any formal submittals have been made by Anglo America, and many claim that Anglo should at least be granted due process. (more…)
Posted in About the news, consulting, environmental, Reclamation, tagged Bunker Hill, EPA, hecla, Jacobs, mine closure, superfund on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two news items today from the world of mining emphasize the cost of mining. The first is that Jacobs has received contracts from the oil sands mines of Alberta worth more than $1.5 billion in the preceding quarter. The second is that Hecla Mining has just settled with the EPA for $77 million to cleanup the Bunker Hill Superfund site in the Coeur d’Alene Basin in Idaho. (more…)
Posted in blogs, British Columbia, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), Mining history, tagged company, EPA, junior mining, NI 43-101, Vancouver on July 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A professor from far away came today to ask why Vancouver has so many junior mining companies. I had not hitherto pondered this question. We ate, walked, and talked; and here are some of the possible answers we formulated. (more…)
Posted in consulting, environmental, Geotechnical, North America, Reclamation, safety, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged Alaska, closure, EPA, failure, mine, pebble, Tailings on February 25, 2011 | 7 Comments »
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