Author: Vicente RestrepoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Study of the Gold & Silver Mines of Colombia
Author: Vicente RestrepoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Study of the Gold & Silver Mines of Colombia
Author: Vicente RestrepoPublisher: Scholar Select
ISBN: 9781298834348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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A Study of the Gold & Silver Mines of Colombia
Author: Vicente RestrepoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781376200959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
My Cocaine Museum
Author: Michael TaussigPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226790150
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories.
Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States ...
Author: United States. Bureau of the MintPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Mining and Scientific Press
Author: Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of the Precious Metals in the U.S.
Author: United States. Bureau of the MintPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Ores of Colombia from Mines in Operation in 1892
Author: Henry Windsor NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Mercury from Gold and Silver Mining
Author: Luiz D.de LacerdaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642587933
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Due to its inherent characteristics, mercury contamination from gold mining is a major environmental problem compared to past mercury contamination from industrial point sources. The worsening of social-economical conditions and increasing gold prices in the late 1970s resulted in a new rush for gold by individual entrepreneurs for whom Hg amalgamation is a cheap and easily carried out operation. Even after the present-day mining areas are exhausted, the mercury left behind will remain part of the biochemical cycle of the tropical forest. This book reviews the current information on mercury from gold mining, its cycling in the environment and its long-term ecotoxicological impact. The book is illustrated with numerous diagrams and photographs.
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