mining

Chasing the Glitter tells the story of the men, mills, and machines that teased precious metals from the reluctant ores of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.

This is the story of the Wayana people in French Amazonia, whose future is threatened following the arrival of gold miners.

An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.

Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.

This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.

A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.

Timothy LeCain, Carson Fellow from September 2011 to May 2012, discusses his comparative history of Japanese and American copper mining.

Ingo Heidbrink, Carson Fellow from June 2011 to December 2011, talks about his environmental history of Greenland.

This study argues that when farmers raised concerns about miners’ activities, ‘precautionary stewardship’ of the environment designed to stop entrepreneurial practices harmful to the environment was not a concern. This was a struggle over the ownership of the means of production by two competing forms of capitalism—a characteristic intra-class as well as intra-racial conflict.