Should every state and every country produce all the metals and minerals it needs, or may it justifiably protect its own environment while allowing others to mine in their countries, presumable to pollute their environment?
What does the new year hold for mining? If we truly knew, we would grow rich; we would buy and sell at the right time; and we would buy the right stock in the right commodities just before the price rose.
In order to undertake a comprehensive risk assessment of an operating tailings facility, it is necessary to consider the modes by which failure may occur. Once the failure modes are identified, you may estimate the probability of failure for each mode, establish the potential consequences and hence quantify the risk.
For no good reasons that need detain us here, I recently had occassion to go back through old I THINK MINING blog postings. I was surprised to see how much I had written on the topic of global warmining in 2007 and thereafter.
Here is a picture of Jacob fighting with the Angel: a fight of good versus better; of logic versus instinct; of theory versus philosophy; of family versus God; and the ultimate biblical story of submission to higher powers.
This post is replete with contradiction, cynicism, and self-promotion. Yet I am making a genuine attempt to make a serious point, even though I degenerate into foresaid faults. First let me admit that the only professional registration I keep up is in California. Partly that is because of the house and family there, and the hope that [...]
He is about 73 and is still active in trading stocks. He admits to taking a snooze after lunch in his office—with the door closed. We meet every-so-often at the back of the building for a smoke and a chat. As we did this afternoon. His advice on current gyrations in the stock markets: take it like a man, and wait for it all to turn around.
After a conference earlier this year in Juneau, Alaska, I bought into the belief that rare earth metals were in short supply, that Alaska could provide them, and that failure to mine such metals in the US would negatively affect the US economy. I even blogged to that effect.
