New Perspectives Issue Offers an Interdisciplinary Discussion of Mining
03.04.2013
Mining shows little respect for national boundaries: the quest for underground resources was a global endeavor even before the dawn of modernity, and minerals crossed borders just as easily as the people who brought them up from the depths of the earth.
This issue of RCC Perspectives looks at the movements of various metals and minerals and how they have shaped the landscapes of Europe. The authors use a wide variety of methodologies, looking at pollution and health hazards, spatial patterns, arrangements between the mining and agriculture industries, and even reconstructing the vegetation of the past through detailed pollen, microcharcoal, and geochemical analyses of a Tirolean fen.
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