Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance
Title | Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance PDF eBook |
Author | Jock McCulloch |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2023-03-20 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9811983275 |
This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a system of medical surveillance and workers’ compensation which compromised the health of black gold miners, facilitated the spread of tuberculosis, and ravaged the communities and economies of labour-sending states. The culmination of two decades of meticulous archival research, this book exposes the making, contesting, and unravelling of the companies’ capacity to shape – and corrupt – medical knowledge.
Going for Gold
Title | Going for Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Jack H. Morris |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2010-05-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0817316779 |
Details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains the second largest gold miner in the world Jack H. Morris asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today’s technology-driven industry. We learn how the company’s founder and several early leaders grew up in gold camps and how, in 1917, the company helped finance South Africa’s largest gold company and later owned famous gold mines in California and Colorado. In the 1960s the company developed the process to capture “invisible gold” from small distributions of the metal in large quantities of rock, thereby opening up the rich gold field at Carlin, Nevada. Modern gold mining has all the excitement and historic significance of the metal’s colorful past. Instead of panning for ready nuggets, today’s corporate miners must face heavy odds by extracting value from ores containing as little as one-hundredth of an ounce per ton. In often-remote locations, where the capital cost of a new mine can top $2 billion, 250-ton trucks crawl from half mile deep pits and ascend, beetle-like, loaded with ore for extraction of the minute quantities of gold locked inside. Morris had unique access to company records and the cooperation of more than 80 executives and employees of the firm, but the company exercised no control over content. The author tells a story of discovery and scientific breakthrough; strong-willed, flamboyant leaders like founder Boyce Thompson; corporate raiders such as T. Boone Pickens and Jimmy Goldsmith; shakedowns by the Indonesian government and monumental battles with the French over the richest mine in Peru; and learning to operate in the present environmental regulatory climate. This is a fascinating story of the metal that has ignited passions for centuries and now sells for over $1,000 an ounce.
Industrial Progress in Gold Mining
Title | Industrial Progress in Gold Mining PDF eBook |
Author | Mears Chlorination Company, Philadelphia |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | Gold mines and mining |
ISBN |
Gold Mining And Gold Production
Title | Gold Mining And Gold Production PDF eBook |
Author | John Walter Gregory |
Publisher | Legare Street Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-10-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781017840810 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Industrial Progress in Gold Mining
Title | Industrial Progress in Gold Mining PDF eBook |
Author | George W Baker |
Publisher | Legare Street Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-10-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781016314169 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Problems of the Gold Mining Industry
Title | Problems of the Gold Mining Industry PDF eBook |
Author | California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Manufacturing, Oil, and Mining Industry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1960* |
Genre | Gold mines and mining |
ISBN |
The Business of Mining; A Brief Non-Technical Exposition of the Principles Involved in the Profitable Operation of Mines
Title | The Business of Mining; A Brief Non-Technical Exposition of the Principles Involved in the Profitable Operation of Mines PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Joseph Hoskin |
Publisher | Clapham Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2008-08-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1443705209 |
The Business Of Mining - A Brief Non-Technical Exposition Of The Principles Involved In The Profitable Operation Of Mines - By Hoskin, Arthur Joseph - INTRODUCTION - There is probably no line of human activity that is not beset with malicious and ignorant intruders. The fact that my occupation or business is redly legitimate seems often to stimulate the operations of these disreputable persons. Mining does not escape the application of this postulate. For ages, the industry has afforded most fertile opportunities for the machinations of the unscrupulous and the erring. Somehow, there weaves throughout the history of mining a sort of magnetism rendering us unduly susceptible to the allurements which are presented with every mining proposition. It is not, however, always intentional deceit that is perpetrated upon the unwary. Often, mining failures result from actual ignorance of the business upon the Before entering into a discussion of the economic features of the mining industry, it will be well to be sure that we understand, definitely, what is meant by mining. As one investigates the question, lie is bound to run across varying shades of meaning for the words Mine and Mining, and so we must pause long enough to define these words according to the best usages. A search through works on mining written at various periods reveals differing ideas that have prevailed among authors. Less than a hundred years ago, it was said that a mine consists of subterranean workings from which valuable minerals are extracted. One early writer said that a mine is one only when the operations are conducted in the absence of daylight. As time has created..........