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Miners News
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Headlining News
February/March 2011
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| GOOD TIMES FOR METALLURGICAL COAL - While the coal industry fights off attempts by the Obama Administration to destroy it, there is at least one segment of the industry that is experiencing good times – metallurgical coal. |
“MAY THE FORCES BE WITH YOU”-- ALTERNATIVE ENERGY’S
POTENTIAL IN MINE SITE SUPPORT - Successfully harnessing nature’s power has historically emerged as an abiding human interest and evolved into modern necessity. Being “off the grid” (anywhere) presents even greater challenges in our search for providing necessary energy to any remote community, mining or otherwise. |
| WATER CRITICAL IN MINE RECLAMATION - What’s more valuable, five tons of high grade gold ore or five tons of water for your reclamation project? If you answered five tons of high grade gold ore, you are wrong. Pound for pound, water used in reclamation will add more to your bottom line than the ore you mine. |
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February/March 2011 |
| The Threat of an Impending Global Currency -
Mining Affairs Forum - Many of our readers, I’m sure, know that the New World Order is trying to become a reality like a runaway train. Our old nemesis, the devil, is working overtime to remove everyone’s freedoms on this earth as long as they sit back and allow it. |
| THE PUSH FOR REGULATION - If you thought a “shellacking” in the mid term elections was going to stop Obama and his anti mining agenda, you were wrong. As it became obvious that even the Democratic Congress wasn’t about to regulate the American economy out of existence, Obama’s administration unveiled a set of regulations that will do for the mining industry and the economy what Congress refused to do. |
| MYSTERIOUS SILVER
- In his annual speech to a standing-room only audience at the Northwest Mining Association in Spokane, Washington in early December 1979, Paul Sarnoff, the leading silver guru of his era, predicted that silver would rise to $80 in the 1980s. |
COAL AND IRON ORE ARE NOT GLAMOROUS BUT IN 2011
THEY LOOK LIKE BEAUTIES - Coal although not glamorous became a sought after commodity as Queensland coal mines suffered severe damage to surface workings and rail lines to port facilities. Iron ore treasured by the world’s steel producing countries, especially China, witnessed unparalleled demand for the ore in 2010 and the companies that produce it . |
| MINING AND LAND SPEED RECORDS COME TOGETHER AT BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS - Mention the Bonneville Salt Flats and most people think of racing and land speed records. But this remnant of Lake Bonneville is a critical provider of potash for agriculture and magnesium chloride for dust control. |
| FIGHTING ACID MINE DRAINAGE - Louis Pasteur and Alexander Fleming aren’t considered mining pioneers, but in reality, their medical contributions are helping us better understand and control acid rock drainage (ARD). |
| SAFE BY ACCIDENT? - Ask any CEO or manager and they will tell you that they place safety first. However, it is becoming obvious that this “safety culture” hasn’t been as effective as one would believe. |
| The Icing on The Cake -
Greenhouse Gas Inventories for the Mining Industry -
Active, aggressive energy management at mine sites has never been more important. |
| MAGNESIA ISN’T JUST FOR SICK STOMACHS - Mention magnesia and most people think about milk of magnesia. However, this industrial mineral is so critical that many industries would be sick without a regular dose of magnesia (MgO). |
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