Mining In Latin America

Author : Kalowatie Deonandan,Michael L. Dougherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317414506

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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 : 42,7 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 : Gary McMahon,Felix Remy
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0821350021

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Large Mines and the Community by Gary McMahon,Felix Remy Pdf

"International Development Research Centre."

Author : Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821338161

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A Mining Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean by Anonim Pdf

"Technical papers that assess the current state of mining in parts of Latin America, and propose a framework for growth in the mineral sector. Specific coverage for four country groups: Mexico/Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia/Peru, and Argentina/Ecuador/Panama"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Author : World Bank,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computer network resources
ISBN : 9780889369498

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Large Mines and the Community by World Bank,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Large Mines and the Community: Socioeconomic and environmental effects in Latin America, Canada and Spain

Author : Liisa North,Timothy David Clark,Viviana Patroni
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Corporations, Canadian
ISBN : 9781897071106

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Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility by Liisa North,Timothy David Clark,Viviana Patroni Pdf

Canadian mining activity in Latin America has exploded over the past decade and a half. Investors have responded to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, state-downsizing, and export promotion encouraged by leading capitalist nations and international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The result, predictably, has been sharp conflicts between the communities affected by mining and their advocates on one side, and the transnational mining companies supported by the local state and the Canadian government on the other. This collection, the most comprehensive in the English-language to date, investigates these conflicts in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Contributors address the related sustainable development, community, corporate, legal, and social issues. A valuable contribution to Latin American development studies, this collection will prove of interest to students and specialists in the field, journalists, NGOs, and policymakers.

Author : Institution Of Mining and Metallurgy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401112161

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Mining Latin America / Minería Latinoamericana by Institution Of Mining and Metallurgy Pdf

In November, 1986, the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy held the 'Mining Latin AmericalMineria Latinoamericana' conference in Chile - a conference covering a broad range of topics relevant to South America and, in that sense, complementary to its regional 'Asian Mining' and 'African Mining' series of events. This first conference proved to be a resounding success and confirmed that Chile, in particular, and South America, in general, were indeed ideal for the Institution in the pursuit of its objective of disseminating information related to the international minerals industry. In relation to South America, the Chilean conference was followed, in 1988, by that entitled 'Silver - exploration, mining and treatment', * which was held in Mexico City; in February, 1995, Caracas will host the 'Mineral resources of VenezuelalRecursos minerales de Venezuela' conference, serious planning for which is under way as I write. The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, in association with the Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas de Chile, Mineria Chilena and Latinomineria agreed that the second 'Mining Latin AmericalMineria Latinoamerica' conference should be held, again in Santiago, in May, 1994, on the occasion of the 1994 Expomin show, which had been been particularly successful in attracting visitors from mining countries worldwide in 1992 and which will continue, at two-yearly intervals, to the year 2000 and, no doubt, beyond.

Author : Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009815239

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Mining Latin America by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Pdf

The mining sector is of major importance to the economy of Chile. Although dominated by copper - Chile is the world's leading producer - its production of potassium and sodium nitrate, gold, silver, rhenium, lithium iodine, molybdenum, boron and selenium, for example, is significant. Prominent representatives of the international minerals industry have contributed the papers that appear in Mining Latin America/Mineria Latinoamericana, the volume that lends its name to the conference organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, in association with the Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas de Chile, the Sociedad Nacional de Mineria Chilena and Latinomineria being held in Santiago de Chile in May, 1994.

Author : Anthony Bebbington,Jeffrey Bury
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780292748644

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Subterranean Struggles by Anthony Bebbington,Jeffrey Bury Pdf

Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological approaches to the post-1990s changes in Latin America’s extractive economy, Subterranean Struggles closely examines the factors driving this expansion and the sociopolitical, environmental, and political economic consequences it has wrought. In this analysis, more than a dozen experts explore the many facets of struggles surrounding extraction, from protests in the vicinity of extractive operations to the everyday efforts of excluded residents who try to adapt their livelihoods while industries profoundly impact their lived spaces. The book explores the implications of extractive industry for ideas of nature, region, and nation; “resource nationalism” and environmental governance; conservation, territory, and indigenous livelihoods in the Amazon and Andes; everyday life and livelihood in areas affected by small- and large-scale mining alike; and overall patterns of social mobilization across the region. Arguing that such struggles are an integral part of the new extractive economy in Latin America, the authors document the increasingly conflictive character of these interactions, raising important challenges for theory, for policy, and for social research methodologies. Featuring works by social and natural science authors, this collection offers a broad synthesis of the dynamics of extractive industry whose relevance stretches to regions beyond Latin America.

Author : Smale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401722865

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Mining Latin America / Minería Latinoamericana by Smale Pdf

In October, 1985, discussions were held in Santiago in regard to the possibility of organizing a minerals industry conference in Chile in November, 1986, under the auspices of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and in association with other bodies and organizations. I, in turn, was asked to chair the Organizing Committee and at our first meeting in London in November, 1985, we realized how little time we had if we were to meet the date proposed. In the event, thanks to considerable support from the Organizing Committee and others, coupled with the very good response from authors, we were able to put together a programme on a variety of topics, with some particular emphasis on operations in South America, and with special reference to Chile, that we regard as attractive. This is the first conference to have been organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in Chile, but it is intended that it should initiate a series to be held in Latin American countries. Chile has a long and healthy mining tradition and it is fitting, therefore, that it should have been chosen for the first such conference.

Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher : New York : United Nations
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015024913074

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Development of the Mining Resources of Latin America by United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Pdf

UN publication sales no. E.85.II.G.5. Dated March 1989

Author : International Bureau of the American Republics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173022967725

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Mining and Mining Laws of Latin America by International Bureau of the American Republics Pdf

Author : Anthony Bebbington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136620225

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Social Conflict, Economic Development and the Extractive Industry by Anthony Bebbington Pdf

This multidisciplinary book offers a comparative reading of the conflicts between large mining industries and peasant and indigenous communities in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, focusing on the wider political economy of extractives in Latin America.

Author : Thomas C. Greaves,William Culver
Publisher : Mancheser : Manchester University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004908443

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Miners and Mining in the Americas by Thomas C. Greaves,William Culver Pdf