Monday we “celebrate” Queen Victoria’s birthday–how quaint!  But is it a holiday and so no more blog posting until Tuesday.  Meanwhile one last link to a fascinating article in the Tyee on the Red Chris Mine approval process.   No comment from me: just access and read and fume. 

Funny the things that get people and societies upset and activistic.  The Alaska Assembly, meeting in Juneau, has just passed a resolution opposing the “clean water” initiatives that would in effect kill the Pebble Mine,affect Anglo American’s profits, and eventually turn Alaska into a non-mining state. 

Alaska would become like Montana: a place for only the rich and the poor: particularly the rich who make money elsewhere and the poor who work to make life comfortable for them.  Never like California where mining is essentially illegal but movies et al. keep them going–have you seen Speed Racer, a fantastic new movie from Hollywood?  Better than reading most NI 43-101 reports, although they have a similar approach to reality.    

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Innovation in Mining was the topic of the last session I attended at the CIM Edmonton Conference.   I have written extensively about what was said in the session at this link. 

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