Sustainable mining resources

Here's a list of many of the sustainable mining resources we've come across over the past several years:

• Canada: Toward Sustainable Mining, A Primer


• United Nations: Mapping Mining To The Sustainable Development Goals


• World Economic Forum: Mining and Metals in a Sustainable World


• International Institute for Environment and Development: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project


• Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance


• International Institute for Sustainable Development: Mining a Mirage? Reassessing the shared-value paradigm in light of the technological advances in the mining sector

North Country Lake at Boundary Waters Canoe Area

Photo by J. Harrington

There are others and we'll see about adding them when we aren't hindered by outrageously slow wifi bandwidth.

For now, we'll settle for asking these questions:

• Does the US have a major initiative for moving mining beyond compliance toward sustainability?


• Does Minnesota have an initiative to bring mining into a certification program for sustainableity, as it has with state forests?

 Ode to the Electric Fish that Eat Only the Tails of Other Electric Fish,

By Thomas Lux

which regenerate their tails

and also eat only the tails of other electric eels,

presumably smaller, who, in turn, eat ... 

Without consulting an ichthyologist — eels

are fish — I defer to biology’s genius.

I know little of their numbers

and habitat, other than they are river dwellers.

Guess which river. I have only a note,

a note taken in reading

or fever — I can’t tell, from my handwriting, which. All

I know is it seems

sensible, sustainable: no fish dies,

nobody ever gets so hungry he bites off more

than a tail; the sting, the trauma

keeps the bitten fish lean and alert.

The need to hide while regrowing a tail teaches guile.

They’ll eat smaller tails for a while.

These eels, these eels themselves are odes!

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