Tag: mining

  • “Large-scale mining developments’ 7 capital sins” Documentary (in Spanish)

    Federico Guzman documentary on megamining in Zacatecas, Mexico. See also his thesis book. http://rimd.reduaz.mx/7Pecados2019.mp4?fbclid=IwAR1r9nAn3t9TCFzipu7IVPRXgpPnGFkoXZcAsQU0RniHCf-NSOqb4peQECY

  • Poverty in Appalachia coal mining region

    Appalachia (/ˌæpəˈlætʃə/ or /ˈæpəˈleɪtʃə/) is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.[1] While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and…

  • Difference between pit, mine and quarry

    The pit is the hole in the ground and all it’s associated tunnels and underground spaces. The mine is the pit, plus the buildings and operations above ground, such as repair shops, material processing conveyors and towers, and processing plants. In very small operations, the pit and the mine are the same , but in…

  • Church removal: coal mining, cultural heritage and social cohesion

    Heuersdorf  was a village in the Leipzig lowlands, Saxony, Germany. The area of the village belongs to the city of Leipzig since 2004. After a long but ultimately futile resistance of the inhabitants since 1935 the village was evacuated and devastated. See bellow the description, taken from www.heuersdorf.de, illustrates the struggle: The villagers were forced to…

  • Sinking money into a pit

    The Miner Plan showered tens of millions of euros on the struggling mining regions But it failed to foment job-generating alternatives to coal of in León, Teruel and Córdoba RAFAEL MÉNDEZ / PATRICIA PEIRÓ 1 DIC 2013 – 14:36 CET The Marta harks back to better times. This locomotive, built in France in 1884, should…

  • PhD workshop on social ontology

    Some time ago I published a post on ontology in order to explain why it is important for any research project. There I emphasized the difference between adopting a objectivist and subjectivist ontological position. The former focuses on the formal structure of the organization under study, usually via quantitative methods, while the latter do it on…