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Introducción al modelamiento de aguas subterráneas para minas y la minería
EduMine has just posted at this link, a Spanish version of our (Bernard Brixel and my) course Introduction to Groundwater Modelling for Mines & Mining. The English version has proven popular since...
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SME Denver Mining
The snow blanketed us today as the Denver Society of Mining Engineers convention begun. Yet it is warm enough to walk through the snow in shirt sleeves. Typical Denver in winter/spring. Yesterday I...
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US Army Corp of Engineers Dam Risk Assessment–Applicable to Tailings Dams?
Here are links to a few of many publications and presentations for the USACE of the topic of risk assessment of dams and levees. Katrina forced them to think hard and deep. This is a snapshot of the...
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Andy Robertson in Mining Hall of Fame
Last night we attended the International Mining magazine’s induction of new members of the Mining Hall of Fame. It was a grand affair. Many worthy folk in the mining industry were inducted. I am...
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SME – Evaporative Solutions-Managing Mine Waters
Walked around the exhibit hall at the Denver SME convention. Chatted to old friends and met new people–and learnt of new products. Suddenly my mind was cast back to my days as a kid on the East...
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Duke Energy Dan River Spill Fine could reach $100 million
UtilityDIVE reports at this link as follows: Duke Energy reported its Q4 2014 earnings this week and company officials say it is preparing to pay a $100 million fine to settle the ongoing investigation...
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Factors of Safety, Probability of Failure, and the Law
I was asked recently to comment on the factor of safety and the probability of failure. I declined, because I have been thinking about it, using it, and writing about it forever. I went back to one...
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Mine Waste Rock Dump Factor of Safety and Probability of Failure
Last week I needed to brush up on stability analysis of waste rock dumps or embankments as they are sometimes called. I went to the obvious sources: EduMine. I opened the course Design and Operation...
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Rigoletto: Mining, Opera, and Sex
Every Sunday we would go from the mine, East Geduld, where my father was a mine captain, to my grandmother and step-grandfather for lunch. My step-grandfather was a winder on the mines–a job that...
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Empathy with Those Laid-Off in the 2015 Mining Downturn
Today was a perfect summer day in Vancouver; although it is still officially winter. I slept late in the sun streaming through the bedroom windows. I rode my bicycle to and from work in the warmth...
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Geosynthetics in Mining: A new EduMine Webcast
If you are interested in the use of geosynthetics in mining, or seek to use geosynthetics in mining, or need as a consultant to provide your client with advice on geosynthetics in mining, or you are a...
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Vermilion from the Mines of Moab
This weekend opera from the sublime to the ridiculous, or from the ridiculous to the sublime. Depends on your opera tastes. We started on Saturday morning with the MET broadcast of the Merry Widow,...
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Geosynthetics in Mining: An Expanded Course of Expert Instructors
I spent some time last week, this past weekend, and today polishing the webcast coming up next week on Geosynthetics in Mining. We started out as a small group, Tarik, Terry, and me. But as we...
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Twenty-Page Mining Reports
A story from the mid-1970s. A story of the early days of Steffen Robertson and Kirsten, now SRK. Soon after joining the company in the first offices in Johannesburg, Oskar Steffen was faced with a...
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Goldcorp Opera: Die Fledermaus & Freedom
Thursday to see Die Fledermaus at the Vancouver Opera House. This is Johann Strauss’s classic waltz opera of marital infidelity and mistaken identity. And the prime sponsor is Goldcorp, a...
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Mining Jobs: Mexican Lawyers and New Opportunities at Goldcorp Managing Risk
I get many pleas for help in finding a job in mining. Most I refer to Careermine. For that is the site that lists every possible job in mining. Yet this one caught my attention, for it is a story...
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Harper Creek Mine Project Plans and Documents Made Public
Here is a comment posted on a recent blog item: Jack, I have been following your blog since the Mt Polley incident. I am not sure if you have seen the design yet for the proposed copper project...
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The Los Pelambres Tailings Wall “Removal”
There are so many obvious comments on this story, that I refrain from comment. The story tells its own story and carries it own implications loud enough. I refer to the story at many links. This one...
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NPV, CDA, ESM. What is all means in mine costing and decision making.
In an upcoming EduMine course on Risk Assessment, Decision Making, and the Management of Mine Geowaste, we write the following on the topic of Net Present Value (NPV): Comparative Decision...
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Oil Sands Tailings Management Framework
Here is the link to the new report Lower Athabasca Region Tailings Management Framework for the Mineable Athabasca Oil Sands. In some fifty pages it sets out a new way of dealings with oil sands...
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