... 40 Hay Road Chichester West Sussex PO19 8BE UK t. +44 (0)1243 783968 f. +44 (0)1243 783968 m. +44 (0)7973 768101 email. greg@... skype....
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Saleem H. Ali
saleem@...
Dec 4, 2009 2:35 pm
... Subject: Ahafo update Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:29:38 -0000 From: Chris Anderson <Chris.Anderson@...> Dear All, You may remember that I sent you...
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Davis, Rachel
Rachel_Davis@...
Dec 6, 2009 11:48 pm
Dear ecominerals members, I would like to draw to your attention the launch of a new online forum for the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General...
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Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Kuntala.lahiri-dutt@...
Dec 9, 2009 6:05 pm
An interesting website - of an environmental campaign against coal mining in the lands of indigenous people in eastern India. www.karanpuracampaign.com...
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Saleem H. Ali
saleem@...
Dec 9, 2009 6:19 pm
Greetings friends, Anthony Bebbington and Jeff Bury have recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on mining, ...
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VILLASBOAS@...
Dec 10, 2009 2:30 am
Dear Saleem and colleagues : In the words of the Steel and Mines Minister of Orissa, Mr. Raghunath Mohanty ! See full story in: ...
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Saleem H. Ali
saleem@...
Dec 10, 2009 2:31 am
... Subject: Plea for research guidance Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:56:25 -0500 From: Michael Klare <mklare@...> To: Saleem H. Ali...
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jacques.wiertz@...
Dec 10, 2009 1:18 pm
Dear Michael, In a recent study presented by COCHILCO (Chilean Commission for Copper)(see ...
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Parsons, Andrew (AS)
aparsons@...
Dec 10, 2009 1:19 pm
Does anyone have a reasonable estimate of the area of the world's land surface used for mining, and also the area covered by mining leases? A paper in Science...
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Jeremy Richards
jeremy.richards@...
Dec 10, 2009 1:58 pm
Dear Jacques, But the real price of copper has also decreased over the long term; what the grade numbers reflect is increased efficiency of extraction, for...
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Jeremy Richards
jeremy.richards@...
Dec 10, 2009 2:44 pm
Hi Andrew, Estimates are in the range 0.1% of the Earth's surface area being disturbed by mining. Interesting to compare this to the vastly larger and...
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VILLASBOAS@...
Dec 10, 2009 8:31 pm
Dear Klare,Jacques and Jeremy and colleagues: Not to mention the impact caused by froth-flotation on lower grades copper extraction ,throughout the XX...
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Parsons, Andrew (AS)
aparsons@...
Dec 10, 2009 8:31 pm
Thanks very much Jeremy. The land surface of the earth is 1.488 x 108 km2, so 240 000 km2 corresponds to 0.16% "disrupted by mining", which corresponds with...
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Edmund Sr Bugnosen
edbugnosen
Dec 10, 2009 8:32 pm
Ineresting note on this estimate of 0.1% being disturbed by mining, which apparently project a minute disturbance caused by our industry, when looked...
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Ramsey Hart
ramsey@...
Dec 10, 2009 8:33 pm
Hi, In calculating a footprint for mining it would also be important to consider waterways that have been affected by contaminated runoff and effluent. There...
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Geoff Nettleton
geoff@...
Dec 10, 2009 8:33 pm
Dear Jeremy Mining leases, or even actual functioning mines on the one hand and areas "disturbed" by mining on the other are sadly two different things. Where...
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Nicholas Garrett
nicholasrose...
Dec 11, 2009 9:30 am
Dear Ecominerals, A friend of mine has written this very useful critique (see below) of the so far unsubstantiated Œminerals raping girls¹ hypothesis, which...
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Clive Armstrong
carmstrong@...
Dec 11, 2009 9:30 am
I am not sure what the figures are. There is no doubt that mining needs to take care to avoid damage and that there are some difficult issues that need to be...
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Jamus Joseph
jamusj@...
Dec 11, 2009 9:31 am
Dear All: I am engaged in Land and Natural Resource Rights. I am particularly keen in issues related to natural resources management and governance. Can anyone...
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Parsons, Andrew (AS)
aparsons@...
Dec 11, 2009 9:33 am
Ed, I don’t think your example is isolated. However, when you compare mining with agriculture (33% of the world’s land surface), then it pales in...
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Samir Doshi
Samir.Doshi@...
Dec 11, 2009 9:35 am
I know that this has been mentioned on the listerv before, but here's the official announcement for the Mine Closure 2010 conference. Best, Samir ... Samir...
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Hardin, Rebecca
rdhardin@...
Dec 11, 2009 3:49 pm
Dear JJ, You might look at the International Forestry Resources Initiative (IFRI) at University of Indiana and University of Michigan; while it originates in...
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Ramsey Hart
ramsey@...
Dec 12, 2009 9:11 am
Hi, In Canada both the University of British Colombia and University of Manitoba have natural resources programs and faculty with an emphasis on community...
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John Southalan
j.l.southalan@...
Dec 12, 2009 9:14 am
Dear Michael/all A very comprehensive report on depletion was done by Gavin Mudd (ref below). It focusses specifically on Australia, but due to its detail and ...
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Kirsten Hund
kirsten.hund
Dec 13, 2009 10:23 am
Hi all, Probably not a very factual contribution to the discussion, but I would object to completely excluding exploration sites from the measurement pecentage...
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Robin Evans
csrm_robin
Dec 13, 2009 10:23 am
Here at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) we do have a postgraduate program focussed specifically on issues around mining and communities....
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Ryan Wishart
theturbotroll
Dec 13, 2009 6:47 pm
The USGS has been publishing studies on land cover change, an approach which might be useful for tabulating cumulative impacts, possibly showing exploratory...
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Betsy Baker
bbaker@...
Dec 14, 2009 9:04 pm
Colleagues, I have been following the Ecominerals Listserv with great interest and am glad finally to contribute, albeit in an area not often discussed here....
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Ana Bastida
e.a.bastida@...
Dec 14, 2009 9:14 pm
We are working on a course on community development in natural resource projects with Luke Danielson, which will tie up with the Anthropology and Resource...
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Mills, Patricia Dawn
pdmills@...
Dec 16, 2009 3:07 am
Dear All: I was passed on a series of emails by a colleague that talked about courses that have been developed that look at Indigenous Land rights and resource...
