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 Human relations and mining, mining, Mining history, tagged computer games, EVE Online, minecraft, miningplayset, Pebble Mine, the mining game on November 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A young man, whom I know & like, is addicted to computer games. Nothing unusual in that—my grandsons are alike in loving flashing screens, random characters, and shooting with glee at innocent victims wandering across the screen. (more…)
Posted in consulting, Enviromental, North America, People, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged Anglo American, jeremy haile, Knight Piesold, Pebble Mine, Tailings on October 2, 2012 | 9 Comments »
The debate–or is it a battle—over the Pebble Mine is becoming so intense that real wounds are being inflicted. Reviewers are resigning and being fired. The Pebble partnership is pressuring Jeremy Haile and his fellows at Knight Piesold into publishing tomes on past tailings failures. Politicians demand full reports on secret deliberations. And the EPA experts are, no doubt, still polishing the prose of their findings. Leaving bloggers to blog. (more…)
Posted in About the news, brandy, British Columbia, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Law (Mining), mining, tagged afgansitan, Anglo American, Canada, Chile, Chinese, Copper, democrat, escobal, Guatemala, jennifer moore, mining, navy, Pebble Mine, police, power, Red Chris, republican, romney, ryan, Taliban on September 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
MineWeb reports that workers have left the copper mine in Afghanistan being developed by the Chinese because of fears of Taliban attacks. It appears that the Taliban has target the mine, stating that they do not believe the people will benefit from the mine and that profits will be siphoned off by the Afgan elite and the Chinese. (more…)
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Commodity, Community relations, consulting, Global Warming, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, mining, tagged Anglo American, annual report, BHP, conga mine, InfoMine, investment, mining, Pebble Mine, Rio Tinto, risk on August 30, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Each year, each mining company produces an Annual Report. Ignore the color pictures of locals, women geologists, heart-rending schools & hospitals built with mining profits, and go instead to the sections headed RISKS. (more…)
Posted in About the news, Asia, Investing & Finance, Tailings, tagged black swan, caldwell, failure, indonesia, Pebble Mine, philex, Tailings on August 24, 2012 | 14 Comments »
The myth that modern tailings dams are immune to malfunction and failure is evidenced by a series of new reports on the Philex tailings dam. Here are links and extracts from two of the reports on this facility: (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, Human relations and mining, Investing & Finance, Tailings, tagged better angels of our nature, Pebble Mine, steven pinker on August 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The grandkids are in residence. They take less than five minutes to cover the living room floor with a blanket of plastic crap. I revolted; gathered the plastic pieces into a plastic bag; and threw the lot out. Yet within another five minutes they have covered the floor with paper. I gave up. (more…)
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