Posted in About the news, brandy, consulting, Human relations and mining, Latin America, tagged amnesty international, escobal, Goldcorp, guatemals, mine, obama care, Tahoe Resources, terrorist on May 3, 2013 | 3 Comments »
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If you read this blog, you will know that in the past four or so years, I have visited the Marlin and Escobal Mines in Guatemala many times. (Do a search with these key words in the box at top-right to get all I have written about these visits.) (more…)
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…)
Posted in About the news, blogs, brandy, consulting, Latin America, People, tagged corporate knights, earthquake, Globe and Mail, Goldcorp, Guatemala, magazine for clean living, marlin mine, report on mining, stephanie boyd on December 2, 2012 | 5 Comments »
The Canadian national newspaper, The Globe and Mail is delivered to the office foyer each morning. The first to get to the offices picks it up and dumps it on the small table in the kitchen where we make coffee and tea in the gallons needed to remain alert through an average day’s work. (more…)
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, opera, tagged Donizetti, Goldcorp, opera, Vancouver opera, puccini, la boheme, poliuto on November 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last Saturday we saw La Boheme by Puccini. Thanks as always to Goldcorp for sponsoring so great an event. Mining profit bring benefits. And great opera is one of them. This production by Vancouver Opera was superb. I have seen the opera many times and cried and yawned to various productions. This production was, I repeat, superb: beautiful; lyrical; well-produced; well-sung; enough to make you weep with the lovers who were real, in-love, and tragically human in their inconstancy and death. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, opera, tagged art instituteof vancouver culinaria restaurant, barber of seville, Goldcorp, Rossini, sandra eddy, thomas hammons, Vancouver opera on March 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was live opera time: to the Vancouver Opera’s Barber of Seville. There is almost nothing new to be said about what is one of the greatest of comic operas. All we can repeat is that it is a great evening of music & fun. (more…)
Posted in Environment, Human relations and mining, Latin America, mining, Mining history, Peru, tagged catherine nolan, environmental law alliance, Goldcorp, jennifer moore, marlin, marlin mine, MiningWatch, placido domingo on March 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
For about ten years until about 2005 I used to attend all the Los Angeles opera productions. Placido Domingo was, and still is, in charge of the music. Occasionally he would sing in an opera—what a thrill to see and hear him live. I vaguely recall that in the program notes, there were news pieces about Domingo’s Dames, a group of women devoted to him and his role in opera. I cannot establish if this group still exists. I hope it does. (more…)
Posted in Africa, mining, Mining history, opera, People, tagged glencore, Goldcorp, opera, university, Witwatersrand, Xstrata on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The news at this link is that Xstrata and Glencore are going to consummate their marriage. Analysts will write about the impact another mega-mining company will have on share prices, competition in the mining industry, and the impact of South Africans who fled the country. I will blog below on some of the more obscure aspects of the deal. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, mining, opera, tagged Bellini, bez bezuidenhout, don giovanni, Goldcorp, Guatemala, juliette, romeo, Vancouver opera, west side story on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a blog about what I THINK MINING, thus I focus on the mining aspects of life. So once again I pay tribute to Goldcorp for sponsoring the Vancouver Opera production of West Side Story. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, tagged bhpbilliton, civil engineering, consulting, Goldcorp, hunter dickinson, jobs, navy, Pebble Mine, UBC, women on September 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On the plane from Seattle to Vancouver: she sat next to me; she was tall, and ginger, with the white skin and freckles of the perfect. She told me she is a geologist en route to a weekend with her boyfriend, also a geologist doing a masters at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in exploration geology on a scholarship from Hunter Dickinson. (more…)
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Human relations and mining, tagged Goldcorp, marlin, mine, protest on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A beautiful sunny Vancouver day. Perfect to be outside and demonstrating. I was walking with two mining clients from coffee to the hotel as we encountered a noisy parade. Here are some photos from the parade. A raggle-taggle band of protestors in colorful clothes demonstrating about Goldcorp and the Marlin Mine. Not much more need be said, for they have nothing new or insightful to say either. (more…)
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