Green Options » gold mining http://greenoptions.com/tag/gold-mining Posts tagged 'gold mining' Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:44:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Time Has Come to Reform Outdated Mining Laws http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/07/14/the-time-has-come-to-reform-outdated-mining-laws/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/07/14/the-time-has-come-to-reform-outdated-mining-laws/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:44:34 +0000 Ruedigar Matthes http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/07/14/the-time-has-come-to-reform-outdated-mining-laws/

1872 saw the birth of a law that has governed American mining for over a century. It is the General Mining Act of 1872. While amendments have been made to the 1872 Act, we are still governed by what some would call “outdated” policy.

“We must find an approach to modernize the General Mining Law of 1872 and ensure that development occurs in a manner consistent with the needs of mining and the protection of the public, our public lands, and water resources,” said Interior Secretary Salazar today Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/07/14/the-time-has-come-to-reform-outdated-mining-laws/feed/ Environmental Protest Round-Up: 20 April 2009 http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/20/environmental-protest-round-up-20-april-2009/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/20/environmental-protest-round-up-20-april-2009/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:44:30 +0000 Kay Sexton http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/20/environmental-protest-round-up-20-april-2009/ Lincolnshire Sunset

One of the biggest stories in the UK at present is the relationship between democracy and the police – or as it has been expressed several times by Nick Hardwick, chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Commission - the police needed to remember that they were “servants, not masters” of the public.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/20/environmental-protest-round-up-20-april-2009/feed/ More Gold Found in Japanese Sewer Than in the Country’s Largest Mine http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/02/02/more-gold-found-in-japanese-sewer-than-in-the-countrys-largest-mine/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/02/02/more-gold-found-in-japanese-sewer-than-in-the-countrys-largest-mine/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:41:33 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/02/02/more-gold-found-in-japanese-sewer-than-in-the-countrys-largest-mine/

Plant officials at a sewage treatment plant in Japan say they have found about 2 mg per metric ton of the ash that remains after incinerating sludge — this is about 50 times as much gold than what’s found at Japan’s Hishikari Mine, one of the world’s largest gold mines.

The officials said the gold makes its way into the sewers because manufacturers use gold when making certain precision instruments. The big question is, could the same gold be found in sewage treatment plants across the world? And if so, can we start recycling the gold we have and stop mining — or at least stop opening new mines?

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]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/02/02/more-gold-found-in-japanese-sewer-than-in-the-countrys-largest-mine/feed/ Mongolia Allows Gold Mining to Restart http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/10/mongolia-allows-gold-mining-to-restart/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/10/mongolia-allows-gold-mining-to-restart/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:49:40 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/10/mongolia-allows-gold-mining-to-restart/ Earlier this week, Mongolia’s parliament announced that it was permitting the Mongolian government  re-open talks with international mining companies about the Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine and the Tavan Tolgoi coal deposits.

Potential investors include Ivanhoe Mines and Rio Tinto, claim that an agreement on the Oyu Tolgoi gold mine would increase Mongolia’s GDP by 34%.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/10/mongolia-allows-gold-mining-to-restart/feed/ Argentina’s President Vetoes Law to Protect Glaciers http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/02/argentinas-law-to-protect-glaciers-vetoed/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/02/argentinas-law-to-protect-glaciers-vetoed/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:46:46 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/02/argentinas-law-to-protect-glaciers-vetoed/

On November 11th, Argentinian President Cristina Fernández vetoed a previously passed bill aimed at protecting Argentina’s glaciers.

The bill, entitled The Law of Minimum Budgets for the Protection of Glaciers and Periglacial Environment, had been passed overwhelmingly despite concerns from governors of affected provinces and Argentina’s Secretariat of Mines that the bill’s provisions would prevent mining development.

The glacier protection bill would have:

  1. Established basic standards to preserve glaciers as strategic reserves of hydric resources and water supplies; and
  2. Prohibited activities that would prevent the glaciers from acting as water supplies.

Some of the activities that would have been severely curtailed in glacial environments would have been mining (including gold, copper, aluminum, iron and steel, and others), oil and gas exploration and exploitation, general construction activities, and the release of any substances that would have a detrimental effect on glaciers.

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