Mining Encounters

Author : Robert Jan Pijpers,Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : 0745338372

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Mining Encounters by Robert Jan Pijpers,Thomas Hylland Eriksen Pdf

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understanding how landscapes, people and politics are shaped by extraction is crucial.Looking at resource extraction in numerous locations at different stages of development, including North, West and South Africa, India, Kazakhstan and Australia, a broad picture is created, covering coal, natural-gas, gold and cement mining, from corporate to 'artisanal' extraction, from the large to the small scale. The chapters answer the questions: What is ideological about resource extraction? How does extraction transform the physical landscape? And how does the extractive process determine which stakeholders become dominant or marginalised?Contributing to policy debates, Mining Encounters uncovers the tensions, negotiations and disparities between different actors in the extractive industries, including exploiters and those who benefit or are impoverished by resource exploitation.

Author : Raita Merivirta,Leila Koivunen,Timo Särkkä
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030806101

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Finnish Colonial Encounters by Raita Merivirta,Leila Koivunen,Timo Särkkä Pdf

Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe – Finland. Although Finland never had overseas colonies, the authors argue that the country was undeniably involved in the colonial world, with Finns adopting ideologies and identities that cannot easily be disentangled from colonialism. This book explores the concepts of ‘colonial complicity’ and ‘colonialism without colonies’ in relation to Finland, a nation that was oppressed, but also itself complicit in colonialism. It offers insights into European colonialism on the margins of the continent and within a nation that has traditionally declared its innocence and exceptionalism. The book shows that Finns were active participants in various colonial contexts, including Southern Africa and Sápmi in the North. Demonstrating that colonialism was a common practice shared by all European nations, with or without formal colonies, this book provides essential reading for anyone interested in European colonial history. Chapters 1, 7 and 8 are available open access under a via link.springer.com.>

Author : Tracy-Lynn Field
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784712648

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State Governance of Mining, Development and Sustainability by Tracy-Lynn Field Pdf

States in mineral-rich jurisdictions must promote mining as a development industry just as they must protect people and environment from the worst excesses of extractivism. State Governance of Mining, Development and Sustainability explores how the State’s role in facilitating a developmental and sustainable mining industry has been defined. In doing so, this astute book considers the impact of the policies and laws of mineral-rich States themselves, multilateral international governance institutions, industry associations, and environmental justice advocates in the areas of property relations, mineral taxation, environmental management and mine closure.

Author : Sumit. K. Lodhia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351355551

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Mining and Sustainable Development by Sumit. K. Lodhia Pdf

Mining is a transformative activity which has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts. These impacts can be both positive and adverse, enhancing as well as disrupting economies, ecosystems and communities. The extractive industries have been criticised heavily for their adverse impacts and involvement in significant social and environmental scandals. More recently, these industries have sought to respond to negative perceptions and have embraced the core principles of sustainability. This sector could be regarded as a leader in sustainability initiatives, evident from the various developments and frameworks in mining and sustainability that have emerged over time. This book reviews current topical issues in mining and sustainable development. It addresses the changing role of minerals in society, the social acceptance of mining, due diligence in the mining industry, critical and contemporary debates such as mining and indigenous peoples and transit worker accommodation, corporate sustainability matters such as sustainability reporting and taxation, and sustainability solutions through an emphasis on renewable energy and shared-used infrastructure. Written by experts from Australia, Europe and North America, but including examples from both developed and developing countries, the chapters provide a contemporary understanding of sustainability opportunities and challenges in the mining industry. The book will be of interest to practitioners, government and civil society as well as scholars and students with interests in mining and sustainable development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030573521

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Kootenai National Forest (N.F.), Montanore Project, Copper and Silver Mining Facilities, Lincoln County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernard J. Scheiner,C. E. Jordan,J. M. Kuchta,Karl C. Dean,Martin H. Stanczyk,Maurice Deul,Paulette B. Altringer,William C. McBee,Ann G. Kim,Annie G. Smelley,G. V. Sullivan,Lawrence J. Froisland,R. S. DeCesare,Thomas A. Sullivan,Donald A. Stanley,Harold L. Fike,M. B. Shirts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : OSU:32435026700633

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Investigation of Fire and Explosion Accidents in the Chemical, Mining, and Fuel-related Industries by Bernard J. Scheiner,C. E. Jordan,J. M. Kuchta,Karl C. Dean,Martin H. Stanczyk,Maurice Deul,Paulette B. Altringer,William C. McBee,Ann G. Kim,Annie G. Smelley,G. V. Sullivan,Lawrence J. Froisland,R. S. DeCesare,Thomas A. Sullivan,Donald A. Stanley,Harold L. Fike,M. B. Shirts Pdf

Author : Erik Kojola
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781479815227

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Mining the Heartland by Erik Kojola Pdf

A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota’s Iron Range On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in the rural northern part of their state. The crowd eagerly listened to speeches on how the project would bring long-term risks and potentially pollute the drinking water for current and future generations. A year later, another proposed mining project became the subject of a public hearing in a small town near the proposed site. But this time, local politicians and union leaders praised the mine proposal as an asset that would strengthen working-class communities in Minnesota. In many rural American communities, there is profound tension around the preservation and protection of wilderness and the need to promote and profit from natural resources. In Mining the Heartland, Erik Kojola looks at both sides of these populist movements and presents a thoughtful account of how such political struggles play out. Drawing on over a hundred ethnographic interviews with people of the region, from members of labor unions to local residents to scientists, Kojola is able to bring this complex struggle over mining to life. Focusing on both pro- and anti-mining groups, he expands upon what this conflict reveals about the way whiteness and masculinity operate among urban and rural residents, and the different ways in which class, race, and gender shape how people relate to the land. Mining the Heartland shows the negotiation and conflict between two central aspects of the state's culture and economy: outdoor recreation in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes and the lucrative mining of the Iron Range.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030839989

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Challis National Forest (N.F.), Sunbeam Mining Project Approval by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerardo Castillo Guzmán,Matthew Himley,David Brereton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003834632

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Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South by Gerardo Castillo Guzmán,Matthew Himley,David Brereton Pdf

This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change. This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the agency of people engaged in these movements. This volume opens by introducing both the historical context and conceptual tools for analyzing the mining-mobility nexus, followed by case study chapters focusing on three regions with significant histories of mineral extraction and where mining currently plays an important role in socio-economic life: the Andes, Central and West Africa, and Melanesia. Written by authors with expertise in diverse fields, including anthropology, development studies, geography, and history, case study chapters address areas of both large- and smallscale mining. They explore the historical-geographical factors shaping mining-related mobilities, the meanings people attach to these movements, and the relations between people’s mobility practices and the flows of other things put in motion by mining, including capital, ideas, technologies, and toxic contamination. The result is an important volume that provides fresh insights into the social geographies and spatial politics of extraction. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, spatial politics and geography, mobility and migration, development, and the social and environmental dimensions of natural resources more generally.

Author : Troy Sternberg,Kemel Toktomushev,Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000461091

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The Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan by Troy Sternberg,Kemel Toktomushev,Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo Pdf

This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China’s frontier and epi-centres of resource extraction. This volume examines challenges communities in these countries encounter on the long journey through resource exploration, extraction and mine closure. The book is organised into three related sections that travel from mine licensing and instigation to early anticipation of benefit through the realisation of social and environmental impacts to finite issues such as jobs, monitoring, dispute resolution and reclamation. Most originally, each chapter will include a final section entitled "Notes from the field" that presents the voice of in-country researchers and stakeholders. These sections will provide local contextual knowledge on the chapter’s theme by practitioners from Mongolia and Central Asia. The volume thereby offers a distinctively grounded perspective on the tensions and benefits of mining in this dynamic region. Using Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan as case studies, the volume reflects on the evolving challenges communities and societies encounter with resource extraction worldwide. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and natural resource extraction, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development.

Author : Arn Keeling,John Sandlos
Publisher : Canadian History and Environme
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1552388042

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Mining and Communities in Northern Canada by Arn Keeling,John Sandlos Pdf

This collection examines historical and contemporary social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining on Aboriginal communities in northern Canada. Combining oral history research with intensive archival study, this work juxtaposes the perspectives of government and industry with the perspectives of local communities.

Author : John Sandlos,Arn Keeling
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459413535

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Mining Country by John Sandlos,Arn Keeling Pdf

Mining has had a significant presence in every part of Canada — from the east to west coasts to the far north. This book tells the stories of those who built Canada’s mining industry. It highlights the experiences of the people who lived and worked in mining towns across the country, the rise of major mining companies, and the emergence of Toronto and Vancouver as centres of global mining finance. It also addresses the devastating effects mining has had on Indigenous communities and their land and documents several high-profile resistance efforts. Mining Country presents fascinating snapshots of Canadian mining past and present, from pre-contact Indigenous copper mining and trading networks to the famous Cariboo and Klondike Gold Rushes. Generously illustrated with more than 150 visuals drawn from every period of mining history, this book offers a thorough account of the story behind the industry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : MINN:319510008656868

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Information Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ali Soofastaei
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030915896

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Advanced Analytics in Mining Engineering by Ali Soofastaei Pdf

In this book, Dr. Soofastaei and his colleagues reveal how all mining managers can effectively deploy advanced analytics in their day-to-day operations- one business decision at a time. Most mining companies have a massive amount of data at their disposal. However, they cannot use the stored data in any meaningful way. The powerful new business tool-advanced analytics enables many mining companies to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes with impressive results. From statistical analysis to machine learning and artificial intelligence, the authors show how many analytical tools can improve decisions about everything in the mine value chain, from exploration to marketing. Combining the science of advanced analytics with the mining industrial business solutions, introduce the “Advanced Analytics in Mining Engineering Book” as a practical road map and tools for unleashing the potential buried in your company’s data. The book is aimed at providing mining executives, managers, and research and development teams with an understanding of the business value and applicability of different analytic approaches and helping data analytics leads by giving them a business framework in which to assess the value, cost, and risk of potential analytical solutions. In addition, the book will provide the next generation of miners – undergraduate and graduate IT and mining engineering students – with an understanding of data analytics applied to the mining industry. By providing a book with chapters structured in line with the mining value chain, we will provide a clear, enterprise-level view of where and how advanced data analytics can best be applied. This book highlights the potential to interconnect activities in the mining enterprise better. Furthermore, the book explores the opportunities for optimization and increased productivity offered by better interoperability along the mining value chain – in line with the emerging vision of creating a digital mine with much-enhanced capabilities for modeling, simulation, and the use of digital twins – in line with leading “digital” industries.

Author : Lizhen Wang,Yuan Fang,Lihua Zhou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811675669

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Preference-based Spatial Co-location Pattern Mining by Lizhen Wang,Yuan Fang,Lihua Zhou Pdf

The development of information technology has made it possible to collect large amounts of spatial data on a daily basis. It is of enormous significance when it comes to discovering implicit, non-trivial and potentially valuable information from this spatial data. Spatial co-location patterns reveal the distribution rules of spatial features, which can be valuable for application users. This book provides commercial software developers with proven and effective algorithms for detecting and filtering these implicit patterns, and includes easily implemented pseudocode for all the algorithms. Furthermore, it offers a basis for further research in this promising field. Preference-based co-location pattern mining refers to mining constrained or condensed co-location patterns instead of mining all prevalent co-location patterns. Based on the authors’ recent research, the book highlights techniques for solving a range of problems in this context, including maximal co-location pattern mining, closed co-location pattern mining, top-k co-location pattern mining, non-redundant co-location pattern mining, dominant co-location pattern mining, high utility co-location pattern mining, user-preferred co-location pattern mining, and similarity measures between spatial co-location patterns. Presenting a systematic, mathematical study of preference-based spatial co-location pattern mining, this book can be used both as a textbook for those new to the topic and as a reference resource for experienced professionals.