Mining

BHP Billiton is a mining, metals and petroleum company based out of Melbourne, Australia. BHP Billiton is considered amongst the largest mining companies in the world. It is in BHP Billiton’s values to put health and safety first, being environmentally responsible and supporting the communities in which it operates. BHP Billiton is a registered Organizational Stakeholder of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). BHP Billiton practices its sustainability initiatives around the four major areas: 1…

Mexico is infamous for its vast mining system. With almost 10 billion ounces of silver mined, Mexico is one of the largest exporters of silver. ( Brown 1). Some of the earliest activity dating back as far as the sixteenth century.To date there over 200 mining companies who have projects in mexico. Historically conditions in these mines were have been below the safety standards. In Most cases miners would enter a tunnel not knowing whether they would make it back out. Francisco Mora’s “Mine…

the Routes the forty niners used and ghost towns. Tools The pioneers in the gold rush used tools to find gold better. I am going to tell you about them. The most common tool for mining was the pan. You won’t find as much gold as using a pickaxe, but it is the easiest method of mining. Also in the gold rush if you didn’t clean your pan when you go to bed you would end up with a rusty mess the next day. This a gold pan used now with plastic instead of metal. You could…

critical thinking skills through improving and completing the initial model. For instance, in a senior level course in “Mine design project” I start the class with the statement of the problem which is typically maximizing the net present value of a mining case study. First, I encourage the whole class to construct the building blocks of a conceptual model for the problem at hand through a series of “brain storming” sessions. Second, I divide the students into several groups and assign them the…

bilateral aid to DRC in 2016, along with $166 million in emergency assistance. Targeted sanctions under Executive Order 13413 (2006) focus on human rights issues such as sexual violence and child soldiers, both of which are exacerbated by conflict mineral mining and trade. As Obama, himself, has noted – the most immediate challenge to any U.S. – Congo policy is the complexity and extensiveness of Eastern DRC’s conflicts, which continue to prevent any sort of policy-based interventions…

Environmental damage due to corporate negligence and weak supervision from the government CS 3.1 Positive Impact of Company Presence. BHP Billiton is an Australian owned mining company which has a mining license in the Ok Tedi area near the town of Tabuli - PNG. BHP Billiton builds infrastructure for employees in the area of operations, making the city become neat and beautiful. CS 3.2 Lack of regulation and supervision of the company. In 1984 there was an earthquake which then resulted in…

BHP Billiton is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum company with its headquarter in Perth, Australia. According to the revenues in the year 2013, BHP Billiton is the world's largest mining company and Australia's largest company. They specialize in mining, processing and oil and gas production at sites in over 25 countries, such as Canada, Chile, Peru and many more. Their main products happen to be coal, copper, iron ore, petroleum and potash. In BHP Billiton,…

On February 26, 1972, towns in Logan County, West Virginia were devastated and destroyed by a massive flood caused by a local dam that had burst. The Pittston Coal Company had three different dams that played different roles in day-to-day operations, but one day, dam number three was no more. In the 1960s and very early 1970s, the Pittston Coal Company was the number one independent coal producing companies in the country. They were also fourth in concerns when it came to coal mines in the…

regions. To achieve greater raw material security, Tata Steel is also pursuing various mining projects To foster inclusive growth, Tata Steel encourages local buying, particularly from small entrepreneurs and Non Governmental Organisations, whose revenue flow benefits the local community and mainstreams disadvantaged…

In their documentary called " The Devil 's mine" , Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani portrait the mining near the city of Potosí. By a perspective of Basilio Vargas, a fourteen-year-old Bolivian boy who work in one of the Cerro Rico 's mines, the directors show us the labor condition of work and life of people on that field. Basilio Vargas is the firstborn in a family of a widow mother and two more siblings. Working in a small and improductive mine, he and his younger brother work for longs…