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"This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under Spanish rule, then by North American industry, and today in the post-NAFTA world of transnational capitalism. The depletion of a mine did not mark the end of its life, it turns out"--

Mineral industries --- Silver mines and mining --- Gold mines and mining --- Precious metal industries --- Environmental aspects --- History. --- Social aspects --- Mexico --- Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)