Main Cobalt - Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower Edition: 1

Cobalt - Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower Edition: 1

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The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history. The tale of the early-twentieth-century mining rush at Cobalt has been told as a settler’s adventure, but Indigenous people had already been trading in metals from the region for two thousand years. And the events that happened here — the theft of Indigenous lands, the exploitation of a multicultural workforce, and the destruction of the natural environment — established a template for resource extraction that has been exported around the world. Charlie Angus reframes the complex and intersectional history of Cobalt within a broader international frame — from the conquistadores to the Western [...]gold rush to the struggles in the Democratic Republic of Congo today. He demonstrates how Cobalt set Canada on its path to become the world’s dominant mining superpower.
Request Code : ZLIB.IO17247061
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
House of Anansi Press City: Toronto
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
1487009496
ISBN 13:
9781487009496
ISBN:
9781487009502, 148700950X, 9781487009496, 1487009496

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