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I have just added another blog to my blogroll–see list to the right of the page for Strings, Connections, Links.  It is not a blog about mining per se.  But many of the postings are of interest to the miner concerned with project management, the environment, sustainability, the built environment and a host of other eclectic topics.  The site came to my attention when the blog author, Andrew Abernathy sent me a comment on some postings on this blog.  Here is what he wrote (I repeat with his permission and some editing to protect the innocent.)  (more…)

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Integral to any new mine or expansion of a mine is the preparation of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).  If you seek to significantly expand the mine’s tailings, waste rock, or heap leach facilities, you may have to prepare a new or supplemental EIA.   Here are references to and extacts from some documents that we recently collected from the web.  I do not provide links—you can easiy find them via a Google search if you are inteested. (more…)

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The cost to attend the South African Mining Indaba was R12,000.  So there was another meeting called Alternative Mining Indaba.  A report on that conference is at this link.  The report is long and convoluted.  I have difficulty in working out what their point is, but it is something to do with ethical mining.  A quote: (more…)

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A week of wonders.  Here are some: (more…)

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Always on the lookout for strange and unusual happening in mining?  Here is one from Arizona that caught my attention as I browsed through the blogs that mention mining.  Seems the post of State Mining Inspector is on the ballot and, as you would expect, there is a challenger to the incumbent.   (more…)

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Mining is all about colonialism.  If you define colonialism as taking the resources of a poor country and sending them back refined product.  Consider these examples of mining colonialism:

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