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Unexpected benefits of living in Fort McMurray

One brief follow-up to the ducks debacle, and I’ll let it fade into the sunset as it already seems to have done: only a few days earlier, an employee was crushed by a haul truck at an oil sands operation. It never even made the news.
Also, a disclaimer: this entry is rather rambling and incoherent. [...]

A tale of a mining lawyer

A short piece to kick off the weekend.  Here is a link to a posting in the Canadian Lawyer Magazine about Lee Harrs who left a standard law firm to work as a lawyer in the mining industry.  No comment is needed, other than that this article proves that mining is more diverse than even the [...]

Plutonic Power Gets a Run for its Rivers

By Doug Hadfield

In the last few years, investors in green energy will have noted the impact that calls for private sector power have had on some publicly traded companies. BC Hydro’s 2006 call for power had the notable effect of boosting Plutonic Power Corp. (TSX: PCC) from under $1 per share to its new trading [...]

Mining Google for mining jobs

This is corporate heresy.  The reason is that InfoMine runs a signifcant job site, CareerMine, where you can search for jobs and staff in the mining industry.  But if you like the random search routine of Google, you can find just as many jobs and potential staff if you do a search of the Google Blogs [...]

Kenndy as mining expert offers advice to Ontario & Indians

Shamelessly trading on his famous name, a junior member of the Kennedy clan who is a lawyer working for The Natural Resource Defence Council has sent a “terse” letter to the Premier of Ontario telling him to snap to attention and change the 1800s law that enables Vancouver-based mining juniors to go onto aboriginal-claimed lands to [...]

How to grow rich attending conferences on mining tailings and waste rock dumps

Here is a topic we may not see discussed at the October Vail Conference called Tailings & Mine Waste ‘08:  Reworking old tailings and waste rock dumps for economic value.
The obvious questions is: should we call on them to have a whole workshop session devoted to the topic?   I submit that such a session would be far more [...]