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  • The Price of Gold

    Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife

    Series Book 19 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environmental effects and left a troubled legacy.When two mining companies in Yellowknife began processing gold ore in the 1940s, they did so with little or no pollution controls. Giant Mine spewed thousands of ... Read more

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  • The Price of Gold

    Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife

    Series Book 19 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environmental effects and left a troubled legacy.When two mining companies in Yellowknife began processing gold ore in the 1940s, they did so with little or no pollution controls. Giant Mine spewed thousands of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Mining and Communities in Northern Canada

    History, Politics, and Memory

    Series Book 3 - Canadian History and Environment
    For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from and adapt to the wage labour and training opportunities provided by new mining operations, they are also often left to navigate the complicated process of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Ice Blink

    Navigating Northern Environmental History

    Series Book 7 - Canadian History and Environment
    Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This timely volume extends our understanding of the environmental history of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods

    Rights, Revenues, and Resistance

    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various postcolonial contexts.Combining comparative and multidisciplinary analysis, the contributors to this volume shine a light on how the mining industry might adapt its practices to the political and legal contexts where they operate. Understanding these processes and how communities respond ... Read more

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