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Peter Hollard

Coal and Treasuries | Gregor.us - 0 views

  • When the developing world faced higher oil prices, it guided its development toward power generation. But when the developed world, already married to an oil based infrastructure, faced higher oil prices it guided its development towards growth in credit. The United States is the number 2 user of coal, behind China, at 565 mtoe per year. And Germany is the number 7 user of coal at 85 mtoe per year. But coal demand growth in the OECD is largely halted by infrastructure. Most of the powergen additions in the OECD the past 30 years have been natural gas fired. Take a look at the growth of coal demand over the past 20 years, meanwhile, back in the developing world.
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      India is going to be a big buyer of coal... coal prices are set to rise
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    Coal looks to be a good investment going forward ....
Arabica Robusta

Like Water for Gold in El Salvador | The Nation - 0 views

  • ADES (the Social and Economic Development Association), where local people talked with us late into the night about how they had come to oppose mining. ADES organizer Vidalina Morales acknowledged that “initially, we thought mining was good and it was going to help us out of poverty…through jobs and development.”
  • He talked about watching the river near his farm dry up: “This was very strange, as it had never done this before. So we walked up the river to see why…. And then I found a pump from Pacific Rim that was pumping water for exploratory wells. All of us began to wonder, if they are using this much water in the exploration stage, how much will they use if they actually start mining?”
  • Three people recounted how a Pacific Rim official boasted that cyanide was so safe that the official was willing to drink a glass of a favorite local beverage laced with the chemical. The official, we were told, backed down when community members insisted on authentication of the cyanide. “The company thought we’re just ignorant farmers with big hats who don’t know what we’re doing,” Miguel said. “But they’re the ones who are lying.”
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  • As the anti-mining coalition strengthened with support from leaders in the Catholic Church, small businesses and the general public (a 2007 national poll showed that 62.4 percent opposed mining), tensions within Cabañas grew.
  • Along one wall is the Salvadoran version of the US Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in this case etched with the names of about 30,000 of the roughly 75,000 killed in the civil war. Thousands of them, including the dozens killed in the Lempa River massacre of 1981, were victims of massacres perpetrated by the US-backed—often US-trained—government forces and the death squads associated with them.
  • Anti-mining sentiment was already so strong in 2009 that both the reigning ARENA president and the successful FMLN candidate, Mauricio Funes, came out against mining during the campaign.
  • We pushed further, trying to understand how a technical analysis could decide a matter with such high stakes. On the one hand, we posed to Duarte, gold’s price has skyrocketed from less than $300 an ounce a decade ago to more than $1,500 an ounce today, increasing the temptation in a nation of deep poverty to consider mining. We quoted former Salvadoran finance minister and Pacific Rim economic adviser Manuel Hinds, who said, “Renouncing gold mining would be unjustifiable and globally unprecedented.” On the other hand, we quoted the head of the human rights group and Roundtable member FESPAD, Maria Silvia Guillen: “El Salvador is a small beach with a big river that runs through it. If the river dies, the entire country dies.”
  • While he hoped this process would produce a consensus, Duarte admitted it was more likely the government and the firm would have to lay out “the interests of the majority,” after which the two ministries would then make their policy recommendation.
  • Oscar Luna, a former law professor and fierce defender of human rights—for which he too has received death threats. We asked Luna if he agreed with allegations that the killings in Cabañas were “assassinations organized and protected by economic and social powers.” Luna replied with his own phrasing: “There is still a climate of impunity in this country that we are trying to end.” He is pressing El Salvador’s attorney general to conduct investigations into the “intellectual” authors of the killings.
  • Our interactions in Cabañas and San Salvador left us appreciative of the new democratic space that strong citizen movements and a progressive presidential victory have opened up, yet aware of the fragility and complexities that abound. The government faces an epic decision about mining, amid deep divisions and with institutions of democracy that are still quite young. As Vidalina reminded us when we parted, the “complications” are even greater than what we found in Cabañas or in San Salvador, because even if the ban’s proponents eventually win, “these decisions could still get trumped in Washington.”
  • The brief methodically lays out how Canada-headquartered Pacific Rim first incorporated in the Cayman Islands to escape taxes, then brazenly lobbied Salvadoran officials to shape policies to benefit the firm, and only after that failed, in 2007 reincorporated one of its subsidiaries in the United States to use CAFTA to sue El Salvador.
  • Dozens of human rights, environmental and fair-trade groups across North America, from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities and the Committee in Solidarity With the People of El Salvador (CISPES) to Oxfam, Public Citizen, Mining Watch and the Institute for Policy Studies, are pressuring Pacific Rim to withdraw the case.
Steven O'Sullivan

OZ Minerals Signs Copper-Gold Exploration JV in South Australia - 0 views

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    OZ Minerals and IMX Resources Limited have now signed an Exploration Joint Venture Agreement to explore for, and facilitate the development of…
Steven O'Sullivan

Asia's biggest iron ore deposit found in China - 0 views

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    In a major development on Wednesday, China discovered huge iron ore deposits in...
Steven O'Sullivan

Development at Cloncurry North and Mount Isa - 0 views

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    China Yunnan Copper Australia has commenced a Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling program at its northwest Queensland project areas.
Arabica Robusta

Like Water for Gold in El Salvador | The Nation - 0 views

  • Thirty years ago, several thousand civilians in the northern Salvadoran community of Santa Marta quickly gathered a few belongings and fled the US-funded Salvadoran military as it burned their houses and fields in an early stage of the country’s twelve-year civil war. Dozens were killed as they crossed the Lempa River into refugee camps in Honduras.
  • Miguel drove us to the office of his employer, ADES (the Social and Economic Development Association), where local people talked with us late into the night about how they had come to oppose mining. ADES organizer Vidalina Morales acknowledged that “initially, we thought mining was good and it was going to help us out of poverty…through jobs and development.”
  • He talked about watching the river near his farm dry up: “This was very strange, as it had never done this before. So we walked up the river to see why…. And then I found a pump from Pacific Rim that was pumping water for exploratory wells. All of us began to wonder, if they are using this much water in the exploration stage, how much will they use if they actually start mining?”
Lia Darby

Lia Darby | Director - 0 views

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    Lia Darby is admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of NSW but now works full-time as a mining company executive, assisting the Superstructure team to push companies up the value curve as they progress in their development.
Lia Darby

Lia Darby | The Managing Director of Global Metals at Sydney - 0 views

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    Global Metals aims to create value for our shareholders by advancing our asset base in Western Australia from explorer to developer and producer through an extensive exploration campaign in 2013 and 2014.
Lia Darby

Lia Darby at Global Metals Exploration NL - 0 views

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    Global Metals aims to create value for our shareholders by advancing our asset base in Western Australia from explorer to developer and producer through an extensive exploration campaign in 2013 and 2014.
News Era

Foreign buyers, sellers meet as fashion week opens | News Era - 0 views

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    Foreign buyers, sellers meet as fashion week opens The Expo Centre is ready to do business as local fashion designers, fashion houses and manufacturers eye prospective for foreign buyers while presenting their collections at the fourth edition of the three-day Karachi Fashion Week ramp that is on from Jan 27 to 29.
Justin Kingsley

Genuine Welding Equipment - 1 views

Since I was a small boy, I used to go with my dad to his automotive shop. I then developed my love for cars. Now that I am already an adult, I have a shop of my own. When I started with it I made i...

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Emily Winter

Losing Weight Through Professional Help - 1 views

It is not easy being an obese because you always become the subject of ridicule. It is for this reason that I really exerted enough efforts going to the gym in order to lose weight. Yet, I did not ...

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gloriazhao

A very successful limestone crushing line in Algeria - 0 views

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    ShangHai Shibang Machinery Co., Ltd is a professional manufacturer and supplier specialized in the research and development of industrial crushing & screening equipments. SBM Machinery always sticks to the concept of innovation and to improve the technical performance and international competitiveness. Meanwhile, SBM provides top pre-sale, sale, after-sale services.
gloriazhao

Vibrating Screen For Sieving Stone - 0 views

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    The vibrating screen is a kind of sieving equipment of international advanced level, developed by our company on the basis of carrying on the advantages of traditional screens and absorbing the outstanding technology from abroad. Now they are installed in about 130 countries of the global market. Vibrating Screen is widely used for grading and screening materials in the following fields: minerals, quarry, building materials, water conservancy and hydropower, transportation, chemical industry, smelting and so on. For material quality of screen mesh is changeable, the application is quite extensive.
gloriazhao

Complete Crushing Plant for stone, ore, mineral - 0 views

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    ShangHai Shibang Machinery Co., Ltd is a professional manufacturer and supplier specialized in the research and development of industrial crushing & screening equipments. SBM Machinery always sticks to the concept of innovation and to improve the technical performance and international competitiveness. Meanwhile, SBM provides top pre-sale, sale, after-sale services.
Arabica Robusta

Daily Kos: State of the Nation - 0 views

  • Chile exports 50 percent of the world's lithium, mostly through a formerly state-owned company called SQM. The company mines lithium at the huge Atacama Salt Flat, tapping an estimated 2.5 million metric tons in lithium reserves. Julio Ponce Lerou is the son-in-law of the brutal military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, and is the man in control of formerly state-owned SQM.
  • Larou's control of Chilean lithium is a classic story of corruption common wherever privatization schemes have unfolded.
  • Unfortunately, Bolivia does not have the money to mine, refine and add value to lithium this way. Morales has stated that he is actively seeking private investment, but that Bolivia wants "partners, not bosses." This approach has scared away foreign investment, compounded by Morales' closeness to Venezuelan President and U.S. antagonist Hugo Chavez. There are also significant infrastructure problems. The Uyuni flats are remote and inaccessible by road and train, whereas the Atacama flats are very easy to reach. Bolivia has established a state-owned lithium company, and even has met local resistance. The local folk of Uyuni insist on sharing the benefits of mining. Bolivian leaders believe that increasing global demand for lithium will help trump these challenges and will allow the country to become the dominant producer.
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  • China is also stepping up its domestic mining and refining of lithium believing it to be the "oil" of the 21st Century. China's domestic reserves are also limited, with only 540,000 tons.
  • China continues improving warm relations with Bolivia, recently signing new trade aggrements. China is looking for Bolivian immigrants while the U.S. is cracking down on immigration. These developments are likely to impact international politics as nations scramble to secure alternatives to oil production. The global competition for resources continues unabated, whether it's petroleum or lithium at stake.
Alex Parker

Springsure Creek Coal Mine, Central Queensland - Mining Technology - 1 views

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    Springsure Creek Coal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandanna Energy, is developing the Springsure Creek underground thermal coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia. The coal mine is expected to produce approximately 11 million tonnes of coal per year and is expected to have a mine life of 40 years.
Nick Robinson

Public Sector Event: User Centric Designing & Delivering Services - NSW - 0 views

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    Do you want to improve service delivery in public sector and become truly user-centric? Then, join the User Centric Service Delivery conference in NSW on 12th and 13th April 2016. It is a must attend conference for those seeking to develop a deep knowledge of who the service users are and what does service delivery and digital service design mean. This event will bring together thought leaders and practitioners from Federal, State & Local Government to network and discuss the next stage in their digital agenda. Visit ProjectLink that provides detailed information about this 2-day event that will discuss how to research the service users to understand their needs, design services with users in mind, leverage digital technologies to create simpler, clearer, faster government services.
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