into perspective. One of our goals along this journey was to ask questions‚ educate ourselves and raise awareness about a proposed mineral mine that sits on some of Earth’s most pristine regions. In order to preserve untouched and pure land in Bristol Bay‚ AK‚ the construction of an open-pit mineral deposit known as Pebble Mine needs to be put to a halt. This mine has potential to negatively affect the local ecosystem‚ including the largest salmon fishery in the world‚ which will also affect the long-term
Premium Salmon Water
which represents a long local tradition is known as Vernacular architecture. Kath-Khuni is a type of timber reinforced stone masonry also locally known in koti banal which basically uses the locally available wood and stone for construction. Moreover the word Kath originated from Sanskrit word kashtth which means wood and kunj or khuni originated from the word kona which means corner. This implies that the corner of the kath-khuni building should compulsorily have wood. This construction technique is
Premium Stone Building Floor
"The Silver Mine" the story is about this group of people who find a mountain that has silver in it. They end up taking some of the silver to a mineralogist to see the value of the mineral and they find out that it is silver. Later some of the men end up dying because all the money is corrupting them. "The Silver Mine" is by‚ Selma Lagerlof who has won the Nobel Prize as the first women ever to receive the prize. An abundance of money that you have not earned can corrupt you. First of all this
Premium Nobel Prize Sweden Mineral
Myana Looknanan Mine Boy by Peter Abrhams certainly demonstrates the effects of imposing imperialism‚ and capitalism on a particular society. In this novel Xuma the protagonists has somewhat of an awakening. He goes from being an ignorant and innocent boy to a radical and brave man‚ once he realizes the impact of the foreign influence on his fellow citizens. South Africans were being oppressed and forced to live a life in which there were little to no choices. Many of them accommodated this influence
Premium Capitalism Sociology
Mine Nationalization Proposals Mine nationalization has been a topic of discussion in South Africa for the past two years. South African mines are the fifth largest in the world and produce more than 80% of the world’s platinum. Other minerals found within the country are coal‚ gold‚ and diamonds. There are many opposing views surrounding the issue‚ which leads one to believe South African mines will not be nationalized. For Nationalization: * Redistribution of wealth; private ownership
Premium Jacob Zuma African National Congress South Africa
Mine Management ************************************************** Q. "Safety is a management function"; comment as a manager of a mine how would you ensure compliance with the provisions of the Mines Act and Regulations by all concerned? Chalk out an organizational set-up fixing and integrating accident control responsibility into management operation. Safety is a management function because the root causes of all accidents often relate to the management system. They may be due to management policies
Premium Management Decision making Labour relations
disaster. In the case of the Centralia #5 Mine‚ failure to act was responsible for the death of 111 men‚ the widowing of 79 women and leaving 76 children under the age of 18 without a Father. History: On March 25‚ 1947‚ in Centralia‚ Illinois‚ the explosion of the Centralia #5 Mine resulted in the death of 111 hardworking men. Most of these men dedicated their lives to the Bell & Zoller Coal Company mining coal at the company’s Centralia #5 Mine. This group of men attempted on numerous occasions
Premium Coal Coal mining Inspector Clouseau
INTRODUCTION: South Africa has so many amazing mineral natural resources as well a profitable well-developed mining sector. The nationalisation of the mining sector is an argumentative topic in our country at the moment. It has been argued that income from the mining sector will advance several social and economic project which include resource redistribution‚ transformation and job creation. The case for or against Nationalisation: FOR NATIONALISATION Nationalisation is the process of
Premium Economics
Morragh Mine 1. Identify the hazards in the case‚ which can be environmental‚ situational‚ human or ergonomic. Environmental Hazards Mining is a dangerous occupation‚ and many of these dangers are associated with the environment in which the miners worked. One environmental hazard evident in this case was the dangers the miners encountered while working underground. While working in this type of situation there are always threats of cave-ins and because the environment is underground there would
Premium Occupational safety and health
1.0 MINE PLANNING Ore – a natural aggregate of one or more solid minerals (metallic and non-metallic) which can be mined‚ or from which one or more mineral products can be extracted‚ at a profit. - a natural aggregation of one or more solid minerals that can be mined‚ processed and sold at a profit. Profits can be expressed in simple equation: Profits = Revenues – Costs The revenue portion of the equation can be written as: Revenues = Material sold(units) x Price/unit The costs can be
Premium Mining