Mike Huckabee who could become vice-president and then president of the United States says this about laws:  “There are only 10 basic laws that we need…..the reason that the law is more complicated is because we try to find clever ways around those 10.”

Considering the possibility this fellow could become the leader of the western world, it is interesting to consider what this might imply for United States’ mining. 

I presume he is talking about the ten commandments.  Wikipedia breaks it all down and makes it very complicated—different religions number the commandments differently.  But they all boil down to pretty much the same things: a set of reasonable injunctions for living decently.  Unless you try to interpret them in a non-clever way.  Let us take a look at how they might affect mining if they were imposed as part of a mining reform bill. 

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I have blogged a lot about heap leach pads.  I have posted some semi-serious and serious writings on TechnoMine at the page called LeachMine.  And now an EduMine course, Heap Leach Pads.  Here is the introduction and summary I wrote for it:

This course is about heap leaching: the design of heap leach pads; the mechanics of preparing the mined ore for placement on a pad; the construction processes involved in placing materials on pads for leaching; the operation of heap leach pads, including the application of fluids that liberate the metals in the ore; the physics and chemistry of the seepage of fluids through the ore; and the ultimate closure of the heap leach pad when mining ends.

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