Mining Industry

The town of Ladysmith was one of the most important coal-mining communities on Vancouver Island during the early twentieth century. The Ladysmith m...

"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun." So began the pledge tha...

"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun." So began the pledge tha...

A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continen...

Reveals the impact of European capitalism on an African society. Gold mining occupies a central place in the economic evolution of Ghana. This tex...

The author clarifies the mutually constructive relationship between transnational and the modernizing Peruvian state, showing how the state maintai...

In this volume in the NBER series on capital formation and financing, the authors show, with supporting figures, two major trends in mining and man...

Innovation-Based Development of the Mineral Resources Sector: Challenges and Prospects contains the contributions presented at the XI Russian-Germa...

For too long Africa's mineral fortune has been lamented as a resource curse that has led to conflict rather than development for much of the contin...

For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin...