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  • 25.Mar
  • Welcome to Our Town. Wish We Weren’t Here.

  • Welcome to Our Town. Wish We Weren’t Here.
    By SUSAN SAULNY
    TREECE, Kan. — Mayor Bill Blunk sees no reason for sugar-coating his opinion when asked to describe this town.
    “It’s dead,” he said. “Wasted land.”
    Almost anywhere else on the map, such bluntness could cost a politician re-election. But not here. Mr. Blunk has the near-unanimous [...]

  • 22.Jan
  • Beauty or Beast

  • This ambiguous photograph presents a vast and undulating landscape. What seem to be waves of earth and water are actually strips of mining residue that cannot support life. The contradictions in this image parallel our modern approach to nature: while celebrating its apparent beauty, we exploit its resources with little concern [...]

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  • 10.Apr
  • To Merge or not To Merge: Xstravagant Xstrata

  • –A  little bit about the two firms–
    Xstrata: Fourth largest producer of copper founded in 1926
    CEO: Mick Davis
    Profits  down from US$2.77 billion to US$643 million a year later
    Anglo American: Gold mining, largest platinum and diamond producers founded in 1999
    CEO: Cynthia Carroll
    Net income dropped to 2.97 billion from 4.28 billion a year earlier
    *A 40 billion merger proposal [...]

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There is no other issue in environmental economics as ubiquitous as Mining Industry’s legacy of deleterious pollutants; acid mine drainage & toxic tailings. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of iron bearing residues have been discarded from activities related to the mining industry worldwide past present and… the future. The production of concentrates from sulphide ores produces acid-generating tailings, which must be managed in perpetuity. In the alumina industry, hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually to manage red mud, an iron residue generated from the Bayer process. Iron disposal not only represents a cost that impacts upon the bottom line, it carries social and environmental consequences, as well. Mine tailings degrade land and water resources. Cleanrocks possesses a suite of licensed innovative clean technologies to treat these tailings in a manner that eliminates the contamination at its source. It does so by eradicating the acid generating potential of the tailings and converting the contained iron into a very pure hematite (Fe2O3), which can either be safely stored, or marketed as iron ore. Residual base metals and precious metals can also be recovered for by-product credit.

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Image Left: Glacier National Park in Montana

Image Right: Mina Gold Quarry, Nevada, EEUU, Newmont Mining Corp-oro

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You are driving on a mountain highway, or you’re hiking on a trail next to a river or stream, and you enter an area that doesn’t look right. The exact meaning of the term “a healthy landscape” is not easy to pin down, but you know that you are seeing its opposite: a landscape that is sick and afflicted, not feeling well and not able to cure itself. The vegetation along the stream or river thins out or even disappears altogether. Parts of the streambed display unnatural shades of red and orange that defy the ideal of a clear-running, sparkling Western stream. You may have a vague notion that those gaudy colors come from some kind of iron deposit. But what you are seeing is a symptom of a grave environmental disease: the toxic and acidic discharge from long-abandoned hardrock mines, a witch’s brew that destroys aquatic life and pollutes waterways wherever it flows. This environmental ailment goes by the name of acid mine drainage (AMD). Are you concerned about pollution caused by the waste streams from the industries which produce the raw materials we use everyday? You can GET INVOLVED!

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