ten days, but there is no evidence that the company even replied to the request. The second concern Scanlan could have addressed was difficulty with communicating. There was a problem communicating with those who were in a position to regulate the mining industry. Scanlan sent report after report to his superiors. Scanlan and his boss did not communicate effectively. They communicated vastly by mail. I believe they should have communicated face to face due to the severity of the situation. Miscommunication
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MINING AND WATER POLLUTION Water is essential to life on our planet. A prerequisite of sustainable development must be to ensure uncontaminated streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. There is growing public concern about the condition of fresh water in Canada. Mining affects fresh water through heavy use of water in processing ore, and through water pollution from discharged mine effluent and seepage from tailings and waste rock impoundments. Increasingly, human activities such as mining threaten the
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Good governance and mining FROM A DISTANCE By Carmen N. Pedrosa (The Philippine Star) Updated June 24, 2012 12:00 AM As I write this column, the new Executive Order on mining was being awaited with bated breath by the mining industry. The word was it has been postponed... yet again. In my opinion, mining is the only big ticket industry that can lift our economy. By this I mean to lift the lives of millions of our countrymen from squalor and poverty — not merely higher GNPs. It will not come
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Kettle Mountain Mining Inc. V2 (Adapted with permission of CMA Canada) Andre Rousseau Phd (Environmental Studies), a naturalist and resident of the Northwest Territories discovered multiple mineral deposits beginning in the mid 1990’s. Rousseau incorporated Kettle Mountain Mining Inc (KMM) in 1999 with the intent of developing the mineral deposits and pledged that his company will add to the quality of life within the surrounding community. The company remains private. Rousseau says “Going public
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Key Challenges facing the coal Sector The critical issues facing the coal sector are highlighted below: • Lack of Investments in Mining In spite of the economic liberalization of 1991 the mining sector has not seen major investments. This is possibly due to the problems such as government policy, land acquisition, development of infrastructure, transportation system, social engineering and community development involved in major green field site projects. There is a need to re-look at the total
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After hearing a seminar on organizational learning, a mining company executive argues that this perspective ignores the fact that mining companies could not rely on knowledge alone to stay in business. They also need physical capital (such as digging and ore processing equipment) and land (where the minerals are located). In fact, these two may be more important than what employees carry around in their heads. Evaluate the mining executive’s comments. Although less common, many executives still
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Cammarata Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release On August 5, 2010, the airwaves and newsprint ran a story about a small copper mine in northern Chile collapsing and trapping 30 miners inside. On this day the Minera San Esteban Primera Mining Company had a difficult task set before them. The company would not only have to inform the families of the trapped miners and its employees of the accident but would also initiate a search and rescue efforts to locate the men still trapped in the
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Governor of Illinois, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the State Mine Board to ensure safety measures and further investigations were established (www.usmra.com/repository/best-of-the-best_newsletter_article). Also, Scanlan had the power to shut down the mining operation but chose to be bullied by Robert Medill. All inspectors and professionals handling the case were aware of coal dust buildup and the necessity to clean it to prevent any explosions (www.usmra.com/repository/best-of-the-best_newsletter_article)
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volcanic activity. Or Copper can be found in oxidized ores and sulfide ores that must be mined and processed oxidized ores contain primarily copper, and can basically be melted down into copper in a smelting procress. A process in mining copper is called open pit mining in which a big hole is dug in the earth that are sometimes a few thousands of yards wide. huge machinery are used to mine copper such as giant earth movers, rock crushers even blasting with dinomites is used to move large chucks of
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Mining in Palawan and its impacts to biodiversity and local communities • The country has 3% old growth forest left, and much of this is in Palawan. We cannot let this go. Mining and logging go together because you cannot mine without cutting trees. • Palawan has 17 Key Biodiversity Sites; 7 protected areas; 2 World Heritage sites. Yet most of mining applications in Palawan overlap key biodiverstiy sites. We need to remember that reforestation does not not restore lost biodiversity. • There
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