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Oboni on Risk
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Franco & Cesar Oboni, a father and son team, have just published a paperback with the title “Improving Sustainability through Reasonable Risk and Crisis Management”. read more »

ASTM Publishes New Compilation on Erosion and Sediment Control Technology
Friday, April 18, 2008
ASTM International announces the publication of a new compilation, ASTM Standards on Erosion and Sediment Control Technology, 2nd Edition. read more »

Tailings Electroosmosis
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Electroosmosis involves application of an electric voltage across a porous material to increase the hydraulic gradient, thereby speeding up fluid flow and hopefully consolidation, strength gain, and reduced permeability. read more »

Copper Solvent Extraction
Friday, February 08, 2008
Here is a link to a magnificent paper in the InfoMine library relevant to all metallurgists. The paper is called Technical Review – Copper Solvent Extraction in Hydrometallurgy. read more »

Fuzzy Logic in Mining
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
A new paper in the InfoMine Library is by Bascetin Atac of the Mining engineering Department of the Istanbul University. In his paper, A New Approach for Decision Making Based Genetic Algorithm in Mining Operations, he describes the use of fuzzy logic methods read more »

Aquifer Depressurization Management
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
This paper describes a fascinating case history: Management of Aquifer Depressurization System in Hazelwood Mine, Latrobe Valley, Australia by J. Fernando of International Power and D. Nag of Monash University. read more »

WITS Gold
Monday, January 21, 2008
At a recent conference, I stopped by the only booth that offered the cover of potential knowledge. It had pictures and maps of the South African Witwatersrand gold fields and the name WITS GOLD in prominent display. read more »

What Makes For a Good EIS?
Friday, January 18, 2008
Here is a book I have not yet read: Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessment Using Fuzzy Logic by Richard B. Shepard. I write about this book below as the author is a frequent commenter on my blog and has posed the following interesting comment. read more »

Global Mercury Project
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Mercury is being used extensively to mine gold in artisanal and small mines world-wide. read more »

Urban Stormwater Management
Friday, November 02, 2007
If you are involved with or responsible for surface water management at a mine, this volume is for you. I refer to a magnificent new e-publication called Manual 3 Urban Stormwater Retrofit Practices. read more »

Montana Mining Magazine
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The best value for my mining money on the web right now is the new magazine called Montana Mining. Actually it is free for download. Governor Brian Schweitzer summarizes the current mining situation in the state in his opening editorial. read more »

Riprap Design Procedures Manual
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Many a mine needs to control erosion in the surface water channels. If the mine is blessed with an abundance of good quality rock, riprap may be the most economic approach to limiting erosion. read more »

Coal City
Thursday, September 27, 2007
If you go to Google.earth and zoom to Coal City, Indiana, you will see the town in question: a small community clustered around a north-south road, and surrounded by fields and reclaimed spoil piles. read more »

International Mining on Heap Leaching
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
John Chadwick of International Mining brings us another of those timely reviews on a topical mining subject: heap leaching. read more »

Pollution Problems in the Mineral and Metallurgical Industries
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
For those with a taste for the out-of-the way, the insightful and the different, here is a fascinating small book: Pollution Problems in the Mineral and Metallurgical Industries read more »

Archaeology and Mines: The Southern California Bight
Friday, August 10, 2007
On a clear day, Catalina Island stretches across the horizon twenty-five miles off the Huntington Beach coast. Many times I have walked the dog along the beach and gazed out at the far island. read more »

Heap Leach Pad Raincoats
Monday, July 30, 2007
The water balance of a heap leach pad may be detrimentally affected during the rainy season by excessive infiltration from heavy rains. read more »

Cyanide Determination Methods
Monday, July 23, 2007
In the Federal Register of April 6, 2004, there is a proposed new set of cyanide determination methods. We have just added to the InfoMine library a twelve page set of comments on the proposed determination methods read more »

International Mine Water Association
Friday, July 20, 2007
Kudos to the International Mine Water Association for making the proceedings of the Congresses, Symposia, and Meetings so readily available. read more »

Ken Weaver’s New Book on Grouting
Friday, July 20, 2007
I was honored to work under Ken Weaver’s direction of the Cannon Mine Tailings impoundment. We pumped about one million dollars worth of grout into the rock foundations read more »

History of Metallurgy
Friday, July 13, 2007
A History of Metallurgy (1994) is edited by Fathi Habashi of the Department of Mining & Metallurgy, Laval University, Quebec City. It is a collection of articles from a multi-volume work. read more »

Sustainable Mine Development and Closure
Friday, June 29, 2007
Sustainable mine development, operation, closure, reclamation, and long-term maintenance are ideals. But the concept of sustainability is vague read more »

Quality of Life in Remote Mining Communities
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The quality of life in remote mining communities in the Brazilian Amazon is examined in a presentation by Silvana Costa, a University of British Columbia mining PhD candidate. read more »

New Tailings Publications
Monday, May 14, 2007
Here are some books I found through the Tailings Good Practice site. Some are available for free download. Those on paste tailings must be ordered and paid for. read more »

Erosion Control Products
Friday, May 11, 2007
It takes a paper magazine to remind you of information that has not yet found its way across the internet. I recently got the March/April issue of Erosion Control. read more »

Mine Sites & Publications
Friday, May 11, 2007
A library should be a quiet, wood-paneled room where you can browse dusty magazines and peek into the past. Here are some sites with the look and feel of old magazines in a quiet library. read more »

Microwave Infrared Technologies
Friday, April 27, 2007
In a dim room in Denver, drinking after a snowy SME day, I chanced on a friendly & voluble fellow: Dr. Gus Van Weert. He told me in enthusiastic tones of his work. read more »

Kay Sever
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
OptimiZ Consulting is Kay Sever. I have read much of what she has written on the topic of improving quality in the mining industry. Now let me introduce you to her writings. read more »

Mining Reporter
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
How do you find your way around the never-ending stream of paper magazines devoted to the mining industry? At the 2007 SME I picked up two I had never seen before read more »

Mining Publications
Monday, March 12, 2007
The mining industry through the prism of the publications that littered the tables of the exhibition hall at the SME meeting in St Louis, March 2006 read more »