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Tailings and Mine Waste 2014 PowerPoint Now Available
The PowerPoints of presentations from the Tailings and Mine Waste Conference in Keystone are now available. At least the PowerPoints of those authors who gave permission. See this link. They are all...
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Yes to Life, No to Mining. Go Wooden Bicycles.
Please take a look at the photo-essay at this link before reading the rest of this posting. The photo-essay is of work done to get the Bingham Canyon Mine going after the very big slide they had a...
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The History of Early Mining
Two flights and a visit to a mine today. I promised I would not blog about it–although they admitted reading blog postings about other mines. So here is something I included in an email reply to...
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Mine Yes, Slavery No
Or you could title this post: “Mine or be a Slave.” The images in this post are disturbing. That is intentional. I seek to be as provocative as ever I have been. So read on and let us fight over...
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MINE magazine is on-line publishing
Here is information about a new, to me, on-line magazine about mining. The information I received that alterted me to this magazine notes as follows: Published monthly and brought to you by an...
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BC’s KSM Mine under attack by Salmon Beyond Borders
Here is the outfall of the Pebble Mine and Mt Polley Mine debacles. A report on the Seabridge Gold’s KSM Mine in BC. The report is authored by Salmon Beyond Borders, a coalition of Alaska Native...
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MET Macbeth and Verdi’s Luisa Miller
An opera weekend. Started Friday with Verdi’s Luisa Miler on DVD with a big bottle of brandy. And then this morning at the Schoolhouse movie theater in Coquitlam with Verdi’s Macbeth. The best part...
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New Books About Mining in the United States of American (USA)
I have always been fascinated by the role mining played in the glory that was Athens and hence the whole western world we enjoy. I only wish somebody would write an intense history of Athens focussed...
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Canadian Dam Association Guidelines for Mine Dams (aka Tailings Facilities)
This picture and the others in this posting were taken by me at Knotsberry Farm in California. A great place to visit and enjoy a terrifying ride along the raging river of insanity. If you seek a...
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Nature, Choice and Social Power By Erica Schoenberger
The new book Nature, Choice and Social Power by Erica Schoenberger of John Hopkins University is available from amazon.com. I got an e-copy and have read the first few chapters that deal with...
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Bloom Lake Closure Cost Estimate of $700 million
Just a short note to alert you to the announcement by Cliff Natural Resources that they plan to close their Bloom Lake Mine in Quebec, and that the estimated cost of closure is up to $700 million....
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Mt Polley Peer Review Debated
The Tyee, a local Vancouver e-newspaper with a decidedly liberal bent today published an article on peer review of Mt Polley. David Ball is the author of the piece. I think he did a good job in...
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Addle-Headed Opera: MET Barber of Seville and L’Italiana in Algeri
Beset by the vicissitude of fickle fate? Bamboozle ‘em with the pappataci Mustafa songs. Hoodwink ‘em with besotted Moors. Promise ‘em roles as kamikan (governor). Or just watch the new production of...
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Get a Mining Job at the New-Format CareerMine
The premise is that you can find the job you seek at the new-format, newly-updated CareerMine. See this link: http://www.infomine.com/careers/ The top two jobs at Suncor: one a welder and the other a...
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Vancouver Mining Jobs for Engineers: CareerMine and RGC
Got a long lesson in using the new format CareerMine today. This is what I found about mining jobs for engineers in Vancouver. First up is a job with Robertson GeoConsultants (RGC). Probably no...
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Site Selection for Mine GeoWaste Facilities
Decision making in engineering demands a logical process that is well documented. Particularly if you are selecting a new site for a mine waste disposal facility. In 1983, Andy Robertson and I wrote...
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Seeking a Perfect Mining Employee? Here She is.
This posting is a favor for someone I admire. She seeks a job in mining and well deserves one. This evening I went to her farewell party from the company she is leaving. She is leaving because the...
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Spending Money Made by Mining
It is no secret that I make money off mining. I work as a part-time civil engineer with a consulting practice that works around the world. I retired nearly ten years ago, after nearly ten years...
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Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet & Mt Polley.
This evening I watched the Mariinsky version of Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet. This is the only ballet I like. Mostly because of the music. And, I suspect, because once I could recite the entire...
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TK Burgers with Charles Dickens in Huntington Beach
No posts these past few days as I have been in Huntington Beach with kids and grandkids. In between family time I have read Dickens’ Bleak House. Many strange and mad characters in that book....
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