Mining In America

Author : John R. McNeill,George Vrtis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520279179

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Mining North America by John R. McNeill,George Vrtis Pdf

"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John R. McNeill,George Vrtis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520966536

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Mining North America by John R. McNeill,George Vrtis Pdf

Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly relied on mining to produce much of their material and cultural life. From cell phones and computers to cars, roads, pipes, pans, and even wall tile, mineral-intensive products have become central to North American societies. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and the human societies within it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, forests leveled, and the consequences of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North America. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, Mining North America examines these developments. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while bringing mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history. Taken all together, the essays in this book make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies.

Author : Kalowatie Deonandan,Michael L. Dougherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317414490

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Mining in Latin America by Kalowatie Deonandan,Michael L. Dougherty Pdf

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict. This volume assembles new scholarship that provides critical perspectives on these issues. The book marshals original, empirical work from leading social scientists in a variety of disciplines to address a range of questions about the practices of mining companies on the ground, the impacts of mining on host communities, and the responses to mining from communities, civil society and states. The book further explores the global and international causes, consequences and innovations of this new era of mining activity in Latin America. Key issues include the role of Canadian mining companies and their investment in the region, and, to a lesser extent, the role of Chinese mining capital. Several chapters take a regional perspective, while others are based on empirical data from specific countries including Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru.

Author : Kendall W. Brown
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826351074

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A History of Mining in Latin America by Kendall W. Brown Pdf

For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable suffering. New World bullion stimulated the formation of the first world economy but at the same time it had profound consequences for labor, as mine operators and refiners resorted to extreme forms of coercion to secure workers. In many cases the environment also suffered devastating harm. All of this occurred in the name of wealth for individual entrepreneurs, companies, and the ruling states. Yet the question remains of how much economic development mining managed to produce in Latin America and what were its social and ecological consequences. Brown's focus on the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin America is a well-written and accessible study that is the first to span the colonial era to the present.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780889368286

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Mining and the Environment by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Mining and the Environment: Case studies from the Americas

Author : Paul J. White
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813065359

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The Archaeology of American Mining by Paul J. White Pdf

Mining History Association Clark C. Spence Award The mining industry in North America has a rich and conflicted history. It is associated with the opening of the frontier and the rise of the United States as an industrial power but also with social upheaval, the dispossession of indigenous lands, and extensive environmental impacts. Synthesizing fifty years of research on American mining sites that date from colonial times to the present, Paul White provides an ideal overview of the field for both students and professionals. The Archaeology of American Mining offers a multifaceted look at mining, incorporating findings from an array of subfields, including historical archaeology, industrial archaeology, and maritime archaeology. Case studies are taken from a wide range of contexts, from eastern coal mines to Alaskan gold fields, with special attention paid to the domestic and working lives of miners. Exploring what material artifacts can tell us about the lives of people who left few records, White demonstrates how archaeologists contribute to our understanding of the legacies left by miners and the mining industry. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney

Author : National Research Council,Committee on Earth Resources,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,National Materials Advisory Board,Committee on Technologies for the Mining Industries
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309169837

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Evolutionary and Revolutionary Technologies for Mining by National Research Council,Committee on Earth Resources,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,National Materials Advisory Board,Committee on Technologies for the Mining Industries Pdf

The Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) of the U. S. Department of Energy commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study on required technologies for the Mining Industries of the Future Program to complement information provided to the program by the National Mining Association. Subsequently, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health also became a sponsor of this study, and the Statement of Task was expanded to include health and safety. The overall objectives of this study are: (a) to review available information on the U.S. mining industry; (b) to identify critical research and development needs related to the exploration, mining, and processing of coal, minerals, and metals; and (c) to examine the federal contribution to research and development in mining processes.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309172660

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Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands Pdf

This book, the result of a congressionally mandated study, examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock mineralsâ€"such as gold, silver, copper, and uraniumâ€"on over 350 million acres of federal lands in the western United States. These lands are managed by two agenciesâ€"the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior, and the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture. The committee concludes that the complex network of state and federal laws that regulate hardrock mining on federal lands is generally effective in providing environmental protection, but improvements are needed in the way the laws are implemented and some regulatory gaps need to be addressed. The book makes specific recommendations for improvement, including: The development of an enhanced information management system and a more efficient process to review new mining proposals and issue permits. Changes to regulations that would require all mining operations, other than "casual use" activities that negligibly disturb the environment, to provide financial assurances for eventual site cleanup. Changes to regulations that would require all mining and milling operations (other than casual use) to submit operating plans in advance.

Author : David Robertson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781457109645

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Hard As the Rock Itself by David Robertson Pdf

The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. David Robertson contends that these communities - often characterized in scholarly and literary works as derelict, as sources of debasing moral influence, and as scenes of environmental decay - have a strong and enduring sense of place and have even embraced some of the signs of so-called dereliction. Robertson documents the history of Toluca, Illinois; Cokedale, Colorado; and Picher, Oklahoma, from the mineral discovery phase through mine closure, telling for the first time how these century-old mining towns have survived and how sense of place has played a vital role. Acknowledging the hardships that mining's social, environmental, and economic legacies have created for current residents, Robertson argues that the industry's influences also have contributed to the creation of strong, cohesive communities in which residents have always identified with the severe landscape and challenging, but rewarding way of life. Robertson contends that the tough, unpretentious appearance of mining landscapes mirrors qualities that residents value in themselves, confirming that a strong sense of place in mining regions, as elsewhere, is not necessarily wedded to an attractive aesthetic or even to a thriving economy.

Author : Alistair MacDonald,International Institute for Sustainable Development,Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (Project). North America
Publisher : International Institute for Sustainable Development = Institut international du développement durable
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000050173631

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Industry in Transition by Alistair MacDonald,International Institute for Sustainable Development,Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (Project). North America Pdf

Author : Duane A. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012890730

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Mining America by Duane A. Smith Pdf

Author : Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552668450

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Blood of Extraction by Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber Pdf

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.

Author : Clark C. Spence
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415190096

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British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860-1901 by Clark C. Spence Pdf

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Allison Margaret Bigelow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469654393

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Mining Language by Allison Margaret Bigelow Pdf

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain's northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials. This language-centric focus enables Allison Bigelow to document the crucial intellectual contributions Indigenous and African miners made to the very engine of European colonialism. By carefully parsing the writings of well-known figures such as Cristobal Colon and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes and lesser-known writers such Alvaro Alonso Barba, a Spanish priest who spent most of his life in the Andes, Bigelow uncovers the ways in which Indigenous and African metallurgists aided or resisted imperial mining endeavors, shaped critical scientific practices, and offered imaginative visions of metalwork. Her creative linguistic and visual analyses of archival fragments, images, and texts in languages as diverse as Spanish and Quechua also allow her to reconstruct the processes that led to the silencing of these voices in European print culture.

Author : Donald L. Hardesty
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215522884

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Mining Archaeology in the American West by Donald L. Hardesty Pdf

Mining played a prominent role in the shaping and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. Following the discovery of the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, mining became increasingly industrialized, changing mining technology, society, and culture throughout the world. In the wake of these changes Nevada became an important mining region, with new people and technologies further altering the ways mining was pursued and miners interacted. Historical archaeology offers a research strategy for understanding mining and miners that integrates three independent sources of information about the past: physical remains, documents, and oral testimony. Mining Archaeology in the American West explores mining culture and practices through the microcosm of Nevada’s mining frontier. The history of mining technology, the social and cultural history of miners and mining societies, and the landscapes and environments of mining are topics examined in this multifocus research. In this updated and expanded edition of the seminal work on mining in Nevada, Donald Hardesty brings scholarship up to the present with important new research and insights into how people, technology, culture, architecture, and landscape changed during this period of mining history.