With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they're congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown...
Mineral industries
- Author:Saucier, JocelyneSummary:
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What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in...
- Author:McKay, S. NoëlSummary:
Stony Point tells the story of a woman who succeeds in doing things at a time when custom restricts her from doing anything. In 1903, shortly after the Frank slide, a newspaper reporter vanishes from a mining town in the...
- Author:University of Calgary PressSummary:
For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit...
- Author:Mousseau, NormandSummary:
Un ouvrage essentiel pour quiconque s’intéresse au développement du Québec, mais aussi à la gestion de ressources non renouvelables sur une planète de plus en plus petite.
- Author:Angus, CharlieSummary:
The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then...
