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African gold : production, trade and economic development
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ISBN: 303065995X 3030659941 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Mining and social transformation in Africa : mineralizing and democratizing trends in artisanal production
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ISBN: 9780415833707 9780203362747 9780415709729 0415833701 0415709725 9781135051969 9781135051976 Year: 2014 Publisher: Abingdon : Routledge,


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L'or africain : pillages, trafics & commerce international
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ISBN: 9782748900750 Year: 2007 Publisher: Marseille : Agone,


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Solution mining : leaching and fluid recovery of materials
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ISBN: 2881245463 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York, NY ; Reading : Gordon & Breach,


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Black, white & gold : gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930
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ISBN: 9781921934346 1921934344 9781921934339 1921934336 Year: 2016 Publisher: ANU Press

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Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining on their own account. Others met them with hostility, either by direct confrontation or by stealthy ambush. Many of the indigenous people and some miners were killed. The miners were dependent on the local people for labourers, guides, producers of food and women. Some women lived willingly in the miners’ camps, a few were legally married, and some were raped. Working conditions for Papua New Guineans on the claims were mixed; some being well treated by the miners, others being poorly housed and fed, ill-treated, and subject to devastating epidemics. Conditions were rough, not only for them but for the diggers too. This book, republished in its original format, shows the differences in the experience of various Papua New Guinean communities which encountered the miners and tries to explain these differences. It is a graphic description of what happens when people from vastly different cultures meet. The author has drawn on documentary sources and interviews with the local people to produce, for the first time, a lively history.

Handbook of gold exploration and evaluation
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ISBN: 1845692543 1613443609 9781845691752 184569175X 9781845692544 9781420044607 1420044605 Year: 2007 Publisher: Boca Raton, Florida Cambridge, England

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Designed for geologists and engineers engaged specifically in the search for gold deposits of all types and as a reference for academics in higher schools of learning, Handbook of gold exploration and evaluation provides principles and detailed explanations that underpin the correct interpretation of day-to-day experience in the field. Problems are addressed with regard to the analysis, interpretation and understanding of the general framework within which both primary and secondary gold resources are explored, developed and exploited.Handbook of gold exploration and evaluation covers a compre


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South Africa's gold mines & the politics of silicosis
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ISBN: 1283666022 1782040420 1847010598 Year: 2012 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to labour-sending states. In the twentieth century, South African mines twice faced a crisis over silicosis, which put its workers at risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, often fatal. The first crisis, 1896-1912, saw the mining industry invest heavily in reducing dust and South Africa became renowned for its mine safety. The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that the disease rate among miners is more than a hundred times higher than officially acknowledged. The first crisis also focused upon disease among the minority white miners: the current crisis is about black migrant workers, and is subject to major class actions for compensation. Jock McCulloch was a Legislative Research Specialist for the Australian parliament and has taught at various universities. His books include 'Asbestos Blues'. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana) : Jacana.


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Mining the Landscape
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ISBN: 9783031129063 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer


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African artisanal mining from the inside out : access, norms and power in Congo's gold sector
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ISBN: 9781138898486 1138898481 9781315708553 9781317483205 9781317483212 Year: 2016 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,


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Black gold : Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870
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ISBN: 1921862955 1921862963 9781921862960 9781921862953 Year: 2012 Publisher: Canberra ANU Press

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Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal–white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, Black Gold offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history—the gold story.In vivid detail it describes how Aboriginal people often figured significantly in the search for gold and documents the devastating social impact of gold mining on Victorian Aboriginal communities. It reveals the complexity of their involvement from passive presence, to active discovery, to shunning the goldfields.This detailed examination of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria provides striking evidence which demonstrates that Aboriginal people participated in gold mining and interacted with non-Aboriginal people in a range of hitherto neglected ways.Running through this book are themes of Aboriginal empowerment, identity, integration, resistance, social disruption and communication.

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