Net present value can lead to substantial valuation errors, particularly for long-term investments which are typical for large infrastructure projects.

Jack Caldwell speculates on why Mt. Polley failed by examining the satellite images.

"I do not believe a better panel could be found."

On September 8 to the 11 2014, InfoMine is hosting the first international conference on Geosynthetics Solutions in Mining. Why a conference […]

“Whatever the facts, the failure casts a poor light on the industry, and makes all of our jobs more difficult in the future.”

Almost everybody in mining that I talk to has an adverse opinion about the recent Canada Supreme Court ruling that the Crown has a duty to obtain First Nations or Aboriginal consent before mining on claimed land.   Opinions include: “Why invest in potential new mines in BC?  The natives will oppose—forever as far as investing […]

I have not posted on this blog the past few days. The reason: I was at a fly-in, fly-out camp where the internet connection is sporadic and they do not make it easy to access spurious blogs.

An unprecedented number of papers have been submitted for the upcoming 17^th International Seminar on Paste and Thickened Tailings, to be held in Vancouver, Canada from June 8^th to 12^th this year.

Conference proceedings are the lifeblood of knowledge accumulation and transfer in the mining industry.

Forty-two miners died in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines in 2013, an increase from the 36 miners who died in 2012.

One theory is that a mine can come to be if it has but one thing against it; but two things against it, and it is doomed to failure.

Maybe we are seeing only the tip of the wave (iceberg) of past failures of past parsimonious decisions.