Mining blogs about: community

Sausages and holes in the ground: BC Mining Week fairs well on slippery grass

Written by Jack Caldwell on May 14th, 2008

On wet, squishy grass unlikely to survive the frenetic feet of hundreds of school kids, are pitched the tents of the BC Mining Week Community Fair.  In front of the Vancouver Art Gallery.  When I visited yesterday, there were kids everywhere: grabbing plastic bags and filling them with rocks, pebbles, mineral specimens, crayons, coloring books, [...]

Aurelian tanks on mining code issues

Written by The BarkerLetter on April 22nd, 2008

Greetings investors.
I’ve had a look at Ecuador’s new manifesto regarding ongoing stewardship of its mineral resources.
First, the back story: Virtually all of these ownership issues in Latin America are basically two-fold: One the one hand you have an existing community of artesanal miners who fear the insiders in the judiciary and government will sell the land out [...]

The River Chickens of Tameapa

Written by Michele Murray on March 28th, 2008

 I found a place outside I like to sit in the morning sun before the muchachos show up for work. My morning place is behind a large pile of gravel that was dumped for cement near the end of the compound. It’s near where our wall drops off at the arroyo about 12 feet below. There are a [...]

Old Camp Stove

Written by Michele Murray on March 7th, 2008

Sinaloa, March? Friday? 2008  I ran away from my company, from corporate, from data and computers, sections and 43-101 reports. I wanted to log core and that is what I am doing.  I’m not saying where or for whom or what the type of mineralization it is, but I am in Mexico. Every morning I [...]

Potential Flooding in Leadville, Colorado

Written by Michele Murray on February 15th, 2008

There is an underground drainage tunnel in the Leadville historical mining district, Lake County, Colorado that has been determined to be in a state of immediate threat of flooding. This situation is due to obstruction by collapsed material over time and subsequent damming of both mine discharge and ground water. This obstruction has formed a [...]