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A method for estimating the potential trading of worked water among multiple mines

Barrett, Damian; Moran, Chris; Cote, Claire - 2010

by trading. The direct monetary value of the worked water that could be transferred, derived from additional coal mining … uses of water savings may have considerable additional non-monetary value that directly affects the mining industry …

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Managing the Cumulative Impacts of Coal Mining on Regional Communities and Environments in Australia

Franks, Daniel M.; Brereton, David; Moran, Chris J. - 2010

The expansion and contraction of the coal mining industry in Australia has placed pressure on regional communities and … environments and multiplied the extent, magnitude and profile of cumulative impacts. While some mining communities have benefited … impacts of multiple mining operations have stretched environmental, social, human and economic systems and rendered …

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Community relations management systems in the minerals industry: Combining conventional and stakeholder-driven approaches

Kemp, Deanna; Boele, Richard; Brereton, David - 2006

As part of a broader commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, major minerals companies are developing and implementing a management systems approach to community relations. While the application of management systems to community relations represents an advance...

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The Drivers and Performance of Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility in the Canadian Mining Industry

McKinley, Andrew - 2008

CSR is followed by an examination of a set of short case studies involving the Canadian mining industry and an analysis of … the environmental/social efforts of mining organizations, focusing on the industry’s environmental performance and its …/social performance in the Canadian mining industry. As a result, mining firms have undertaken initiatives which have led to improved …

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Some economics of mining taxation

Ergas, Henry; Harrison, Mark; Pincus, Jonathon - 2010

We argue five main propositions. Firstly, the choice between royalties and profit-based taxation involves an efficiency trade-off, between diminished incentives to produce output on one hand, and diminished incentives to minimize costs on the other (as in Laffont and Tirole 1993). So the Brown...

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Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-25

1937

Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies in the Coeur d'Alenes, to demand for a dollar increase in the daily wage of men employed. The companies usually act in concert on such matters but it is said today no conference...

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Northwest history. Mining. Federal aid. 1934-01-12

1934

production-aid water power. Boise, (AP)-With a federal loan to aid Idaho mining its goal, a state committee began drafting plans … for an application to the RFC for an $11,000,000 loan to put silver and gold mining enterprises in operation. The …

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Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1930-03-12

1930

Sidney miners take wage cut - Men employed by the Sidney mine have voluntarily accepted a 50-cent per day reduction in wages, it is reported at Wallace today, and it is possible this is only the first of the companies of the Coeur d'Alenes which will cut wages as a result of the reduction in the...

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Northwest history. Mining. Stock exchange. 1938-02-19

1938

Banner week in stock value. - 4345,227 sales total in last five days on standard stock exchange. - Ten issues make gains. - Led by Pend Oreille, Grandview and Tamarack -- Cork, Jim, Montana and Sherman up. - The volume of trading on the Standard Stock exchange in the last five days of the week...

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Managing community relationships, reputation and sustaining competitive advantage : The case of mining towns

Tuck, Jacqueline; Lowe, Julian; McRae-Williams, Pamela - 2005

An important issue currently facing the mining industry in Australia is the management and cost to the industry and … prevention or retrofit and corrective measures. However, for the mining industry, possibly the most important aspect of this … study is the ability of companies to get access to new sites at competitive cost. For mining companies sustainability has …

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