It is Friday, so a round up of the week’s top stories about mining.  No, I am not going to write another posting about natives who like mining, or natives who do not like mining and are going to disrupt the 2008 and 2010 Olympics to make their point.  It all gets to be terribly repetitive and boring.  How much sympathy do they think I have. 

In my opinion, the best mining news story of the week is at this link, under the heading “Mining company digs up ancient marine reptile.”  The article tells of the finding of the bones of a 75 million year old marine reptile (an Elasmosaur) at the Buffalo Rock Mine near Lethbridge, Alberta.  You just have to enjoy a story that ends:

As to the Buffalo Rock Mining find being a relative of the Loch Ness monster, Henderson says this isn’t possible.   The Elasmosaur required sub tropical or tropical conditions to exist, while the waters surrounding Scotland are cold. In addition, says Henderson, the earliest record of stories about the Loch Ness monster date back only 15,000 years, and for it to have been an Elasmosaur, the first recollections would have had to have occurred long before that time.

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