Reclamation is more than Throwing Seeds on the Ground - Nothing defines a mine to the public as much as its reclamation program.  A good reclamation program will gain public support for the mine and help future permitting while a poor reclamation program will be bedevil a company for decades

Ecoterrorism Alive and Well in America -   When environmental radical James Jay Lee took over the Discovery Channel headquarters on September first, it once again highlighted the threat posed by ecoterrorism.  Lee had taken several Discovery Channel employees hostage in order to force the network to broadcast his radical environmental agenda. 

October/November 2010 Articles

Stopping a Little Noise Can Save A Lot of Hearing - I once asked a friend and retired Green Beret once about hearing protection during a firefight.  He had helped fight the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Iraqis in the 1990s and 2003, and the Taliban and Al Qaeda in 2002.  As I suspected, they don’t wear anything during a fight – they want to be sure they hear the bad guys.

Mining Affairs Forum - “Carbon-Offset Scam Decried by UN and Environmental Liberals” - Is anyone besides me getting fed up with international entities attempting to tell our citizens and our government what laws to pass and how to run our nation?   Can’t anyone mind their own business and accept a nation’s sovereignty?  Of course, I include the United States in that scenario also.

International Commentary -  Gold miners asked the Russian government to raise its threshold for strategic gold deposits to boost national reserves and production mining, executives said at the sixth Russia-CIS Mining and Exploration Forum 2010

The Right Mineral is Key To A Good Tennis Court -  At first glance, Luck Stone is just another successful aggregate company of the East Coast.  It is one of the largest private, family owned aggregate businesses in the United States and has been in the same family for three generations.

Will Seven Be Lucky for the Fort Knox Mine? - At the Fort Knox gold mine near Fairbanks, Alaska, the future of the mine rests on the number seven – in this case, Phase Seven Expansion.  The mine was permitted 16 years ago, and the mine’s ability to stay in production to 2018 depends on the expansion taking place now.

Canadian Stock Exchanges -  Summer has come and gone and fall is upon us and time for NFL football.  Canada’s CFL is half way into its football schedule and weekend football madness is in full swing in North America.   Stock markets were up in mid September with metal prices showing a lot of strength especially gold and silver

Picking the Right Buckets is Critical for Aggregate Operations -  Horsepower, hydraulics, computer controls and tires are all important to the efficient operation of heavy equipment at an aggregate operation.  But all that equipment and technology must rely on buckets, blades, and ground engaging tools (GET) that actually move the material.

“Operation Paperclip” Critical to Coal-To-Fuel Program Coal Bin article - In the dying days of the Nazi Third Reich, America’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was scouring Germany for a few important Germans.  They were looking for Ernst Donath, Max Josenhaus, and Helmut Pichler.  But the intelligence agents wanted to offer them jobs, not put them on trial.

Robbing an Arizona Silver Shipment - The mining boom in the West and the shipment of massive amounts of gold and silver sparked the train robbing frenzy of the late 1800s.  Robbers would usually stop the train, force the messenger to open the safes in the train and make their escape before the sheriff in the next town found out about what happened.