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Mining Proposals for Filter Pressed Tailings: Greens Creek to El Morro

Posted in blogs, brandy, consulting, Mining history, Tailings, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2013 | 4 Comments »

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Paarl is the only South African brandy I can get in Vancouver.  It is rough—not like cognac—but rather the flavor of the veldt & bush, of scrub & dust, of a long-forgotten home & inequities long-rectified.  Thus inebriated, I blog. (more…)

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Gold Fever: a new set of lies from Iowa about the Marlin Mine, Guatemala

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 3, 2013 | 3 Comments »

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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…)

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Globe and Mail Lies About Marlin Mine, Duck Shit, and Earthquakes

Posted in About the news, blogs, brandy, consulting, Latin America, People, tagged , , , , , , , , 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…)

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Mining Opera Redux: Domingo’s Dames and Marlin Maidens

Posted in Environment, Human relations and mining, Latin America, mining, Mining history, Peru, tagged , , , , , , , 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…)

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Evaluating Mining Project EIAs

Posted in consulting, Environment, Law (Mining), mining, tagged , , , , on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide at this link has a publication all prospective miners and mine investors should read.  The publication is free to download.  I have, and recommend you do so too.  The document is Guidebook for Evaluating Mining Project EIAs.  It is available in English, Spanish, and French. (more…)

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Cooking for Miners. Eating at Mines

Posted in brandy, consulting, Gold, health, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, Oil sands, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Most mines have a place where the miners eat.  Let us celebrate the cooks at these places by telling of the many fine meals we have enjoyed in these mining canteens. In celebrating cooks at mining canteens, I also seek to describe a job in mining that most do not write about.  If you like cooking, then maybe a job at a mine canteen is for you. (more…)

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It’s Sunday: Bomb Libya; Kill Guatemalan Kids; and Ride Bikes.

Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Community relations, Latin America, tagged , , , on March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Bombing Libya and the opera Ariadne Auf Naxos both force us to confront the questions of what is good and what is bad, what is moral and what is amoral, what are gods and men to do in the face of comedy, farce, & tragedy, what to do when the choice is life or death, and is it better to remain silent and survive, or die at the hands of a tyrant bent on genocide? (more…)

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Marlin Mine, Guatemala. Protests, Death, and The Search for the Truth

Posted in About the news, Human relations and mining, tagged , , , , , on March 15, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Rights Action reproduces letters sent by folk at the University of Northern British Columbia about the death of an infant and the beating of on innocent woman near the Marlin Mine in Guatemala earlier this year.  Here is part of a letter from Catherine Nolan, a professor at the university:  (more…)

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Infaticide by Guatemalan Mining Protestors

Posted in About the news, blogs, First Nations, Human relations and mining, Latin America, People, tagged , , , , , , on March 5, 2011 | 7 Comments »

 

Last month a baby died in Guatemala near the Marlin Mine. The baby died because of the actions of protestors come to disrupt mining operation. (more…)

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An Open Letter to Jennifer Moore of MiningWatch

Posted in About the news, First Nations, health and safety, Latin America, safety, tagged , , , , , , , on November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »

 

This morning’s e-mails brought this announcement from MiningWatch.  We congratulate Jennifer Moore who has been hired by MiningWatch to deal with the Marlin Mine in Guatemala.

It is with great excitement that we announce that Jennifer Moore has been hired on as our new Latin America Program Coordinator. Jennifer’s excellent skills and extensive experience as a writer, researcher, organizer, and project coordinator will be assets to MiningWatch and to our allies and partners. She has been based in Ecuador for most of the last four years, but Jennifer also has significant experience in the rest of the hemisphere, including the Canadian context where much of our direct advocacy and education efforts are focused. (more…)

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