As Charleston Gazette reporter Ken Ward detailed in a brilliant report in 1998 -- before the unfettered nightmare of the Bush administration mining policies was even unleashed -- most mountaintop mines were left as flattened pasture, at best.
Mine health services policy is to offer HIV tests to those diagnosed with tuberculosis: tests were offered to individuals in this study according to medical staff practice, with no testing done for research purposes.
She contributes to The Fraser Institute's research on mining policy and is the editor of EcuadorMiningNews.com.
There is gold in plenty, but mining policy has been incoherent and often corrupt.
Timah, which operates 510,000 hectares of on- and offshore mining concessions, says that its new policy is to focus on the environment.
"His immigration policy is identical to mine," Pearce said, according to The Washington Post.
Or, as Russell Pearce told Tea Party activists in Arizona earlier this spring, in his endorsement of Romney: "His immigration policy is identical to mine.
This policy is coalition policy".
Finally, the possibility of a Common Sense morality as the plausible ethical bedrock of the case mining companies' CSR policies is considered.
"I would say to Mr Kan, he's certainly entitled to his perspective in regards to the energy policy of his country, but the mining policy of Queensland is really a matter for us," Queensland's natural resources minister Andrew Cripps said.
