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Mining Financial Risks Post-“Super Cycle” Point to Escalated & Unexamined Already Accrued Public Liabilities & Environmental Security Losses

Although this Ernst & Young report on “post super cycle” mining business risks speaks from the miners point of view, not from the environmental risk/public liability point of view, the economic realities presented here are what Bowker Chambers (2015) was pointing at … Continue reading

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Brazil Initiates Environmental Crimes Investigation Against Vale, BHP and Samarco Officials On November 5th Tailings Dam Catastrophe

Fact is BHP know why it failed. They just cannot tell us until the lawyers have vetted the communications why they ignored their peer reviewers, their consultants, and their FNEAs until people were dead They had an FMEA PIG plot … Continue reading

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Toward Better Measures of Financial Feasibility : Finacial Risk=Environmental Risk

Our current work  at Bowker Associates has been a study of the relationship between mining economics and environmental risk.  We have been looking at this through the only century long compilation of adverse environmental consequence, Tailings Impoundment Failures, 1910-2010. It … Continue reading

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