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2023
Chapter 12 continues the theme of Chapter 11, with a focus on the financing of mining. It shows that neocolonialist thinking is still ingrained into contemporary mining finance, especially in the valuation practice known as the ‘discount rate’. It highlights the role of spectacle in finance, via a brief detour into the mining fraud of Bre-X.
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Chapter 12 continues the theme of Chapter 11, with a focus on the financing of mining. It shows that neocolonialist thinking is still ingrained into contemporary mining finance, especially in the valuation practice known as the ‘discount rate’. It highlights the role of spectacle in finance, via a brief detour into the mining fraud of Bre-X.
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The Extractive Metallurgy Industry
2021Several minerals are extracted from the earth, namely, base metals, precious metals and materials such as coal, limestone, salt etc. In this chapter, the mining and processing methods of gold, a precious mineral and bauxite, which is a valuable mineral, are covered in detail.
Osei-Wusu Achaw, Eric Danso-Boateng
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2017
This chapter focuses on extractive industries, which are among the business sectors most exposed to corruption. Typically, they are dependent on licenses by government agencies, frequently in states with little income other than royalties from mining or from the oil industry.
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This chapter focuses on extractive industries, which are among the business sectors most exposed to corruption. Typically, they are dependent on licenses by government agencies, frequently in states with little income other than royalties from mining or from the oil industry.
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Challenging Extractive Industries
Sociological Perspectives, 2016Drawing from literature on social movements, we investigate how movements in uncertain political contexts can challenge extractive and natural resource–intensive industries such as coal companies. Scholars have analyzed how citizens in Western democracies can confront powerful industries, yet comparatively little research has focused on challenges to ...
Alison E. Adams, Thomas E. Shriver
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NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2015
The extractive industries play a central role in determining the social determinants of global health yet may not be a core subject of global health studies. This article describes how an undergraduate seminar in global health takes on questions and examples related to the “causes of causes” and challenges instructors to find a place for discussion of ...
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The extractive industries play a central role in determining the social determinants of global health yet may not be a core subject of global health studies. This article describes how an undergraduate seminar in global health takes on questions and examples related to the “causes of causes” and challenges instructors to find a place for discussion of ...
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The Industry of Oil Extraction
2011The intensive use of petroleum-based oil is a relatively recent economic phenomenon. While the term “oil” is derived from the Greek term “elaion,”, for olive oil, the term can be used for any material that is liquid at room temperature, will not mix with water, and is soluble by organic solvents.
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Quarrying and Extractive Industries
2018Traditionally the evidence cited for extractive industries in this period has been largely documentary. Here the emphasis is on archaeological evidence, most of which has been discovered in the last fifty years. The industries considered include stone quarrying and the extraction of sand, gravel, clay, and brickearth; precious and base metals (silver ...
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The Development of the Extractive Industries
Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, 1962I wish to consider how industries exploiting natural resources may be expected to develop. It is not my purpose to consider their entire relation with the economy of which they form a part. Rather, I wish to examine the logic of their own changes in technology and technique in response to stimuli from the rest of the economy.
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