The original of the above figure is available at http://xkcd.com/1007/ The Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM) has just sent me the preliminary program for the May 6 to 9 conference in Edmonton. Here are the papers on sustainable mining:
Posts Tagged ‘SME’
Conferences on Sustainable Mining
Posted in communication, mining, tagged CIM, conference, mining, SME, sustainable on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Afghanistan mining and the U.S. Navy versus opium and agriculture
Posted in About the news, Asia, blogs, tagged Afghanistan, drugs, mining, navy, opium, SME, U.S. on June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sitting in the 8:30pm sun of Fort McMurray reading e-mails, I saw this one from my son, who is in the U.S. Navy station in the Pentagon in Washington, DC–he states: “Interesting…maybe it will change the course and purpose of the war!”
I THINK MINING three years and one thousand postings on mining later
Posted in blogs, Mining history, tagged andy robertson, edumine, green tomato, hippo, i think mining, InfoMine, SME, TechnoMine on April 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Give or take a few weeks and a few postings, this blog, I THINK MINING, has been “on the air” for about three years and I have written over one thousand postings on almost every topic touching mining.
SME, OneMine, and the universe of mining publications
Posted in blogs, mining, North America, Oil sands, Tailings, tagged books, Oil sands, OneMine, papers, publications, SME, Tailings on January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The American Society of Engineers (SME) has a fantastic site called One Mine. This is a collection of technical papers mostly on mining.
SME uranium mine tailings reclamation
Posted in About the news, decomissioning, Software, tagged BRS, Carlson Natural Regrade, Hutson, mine, Reclamation, Riverton, SME, Tailings, Uranium, Wyoming on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another paper from the SME CD Preprints that I enjoyed and recommend is Application of Best Available Technology to Reclamation Design and Integration with Mine Planning by H.J. Hutson of BRS Inc. in Riverton, Wyoming.
SME, climate change, and mining risks & challenges
Posted in About the news, Enviromental, Global Warming, tagged Diavik, Ekati, fire, floods, Global Warming, mining, Rio Tinto, SME on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
SME is over and now we have time to slip the CD of Preprints into the computer to read the technical papers. The sad part is that most of those who presented talks did not bother to prepare a paper. And no provision has been made to collect, disseminate, or archive their PowerPoint presentations. [...]
SME on Crandall Canyon and mining bumps
Posted in About the news, tagged Crandall Canyon. coal mine. bumps, death, disaster, NIOSH, SME on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This morning’s session on Coal Bumps and Seismicity gave us some background to the Crandall Canyon disaster. Fisrt a magnificent presentation by J Whyatt on a review of case studies presented in 1958 at an SEM Bump Symposium. He re-read the papers from 1958 and noted that almost everything that happened in Utah had been [...]
SME civil versus mining tunnelling
Posted in About the news, Underground, tagged drift, mining, NIOSH, Rio Tinto, SME, tunnel on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rapid construction is the key to success in mining. Alan Moss of Rio Tinto heads up the research part of Rio TInto in Vancouver. In a fine speech this morning at the SME conference he told us how a program he is managing is succeeding in find new ways to drive drifts faster [...]
SME sustainable mining in Iowa and Wisconsin
Posted in About the news, tagged Fairmount Industrial Minerals, Iowa, mining, quarry, R. Budinger, SME, sustainable mining, Wisconsin on February 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Funny how conference presentations are replete with references to sustainability. The talkers all use the term. Yet they all shrug in quiet embarrassment at using the term. It is not hard to fathom why. Everybody you talk to jokes about the concept.
SME casual conversations; on-line mining learning from Tucson
Posted in About the news, tagged Arizona, education, learning, Mary Poulton, SME, Tucson, university on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Is what Mary Poulton and the Mining Engineering Department in Tucson doing, the future of on-line mining education? What she and her faculty are doing is this: with a gift from industry they are videoing most lectures and putting them on-line. Currently only registered students can access the on-line video courses. But she tells me that [...]
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