Deep hard coal mining manifests itself in the landscape in a specific way: primarily through anthropogenic landforms and secondarily through land cover changes not directly related to miningactivity. This article focuses on the identification
of primary and secondary displays of deep hard coal mining in aerial photos as well as the interpretation of elementary landscape processes that are conditioned by mining. - (EN)
Asia ; Central Asia ; Extractive industry ; Gold ; Kyrgyzstan ; Metallurgy ; Mine ; Miningactivity ; Uzbekistan
Asie ; Asie centrale ; Exploitation minière ; Industrie extractive ; Kirghizistan ; Mine ; Métallurgie ; Or ; Ouzbékistan
Kirghizstan : au pied d'un glacier, la mine de Kumtor. Le trésor ouzbek du désert du Kyzyl Koum : la mine de Muruntau; les sites inexploités d'Ouzbékistan; un marché instable.
Mining amid armed conflict : nonferrous metals mining in the Philippines
Conflict ; Corruption ; Guerilla ; Living standard ; Metals ; Mine ; Miningactivity ; Philippines ; Social exclusion
Conflit ; Corruption ; Exclusion sociale ; Exploitation minière ; Guérilla ; Militarisation ; Mine ; Métaux ; Niveau de vie ; Philippines
Les AA. expliquent comment la présence et les activités des groupes armés anti-gouvernementaux posent des problèmes pour le paradigme du développement axé sur l'exploitation minière. Genèse des attaques armées contre les mines : actes d'extorsion
sur des compagnies minières, griefs contre la mine dégénérant en conflit, militarisation des lieux situés près des mines. La mine ne réduirait pas la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale, et elle tendrait à les exacerber. Urgence de la mise en oeuvre de
This article examines the deterritorializion of extraction through the example of bioaccumulation and the planetary mine. It begins by reflecting on the effects of recycling on the spatiality and materiality of the mine and then it proceeds
to examine the productive role of microorganisms in mining, the limits of biomining, and the biotechnologies that have developed to transcend those limits. The conclusion draws out theoretical implications of those ongoing lines of deterritorialization
and their combination on understanding the spatiotemporality of extraction and the active involvement of nonhuman nature in the production of value.
Challenges for sustainable water use in dolomitic mining regions of South Africa. A case study of uranium pollution, Part I : sources and pathways
Carbonate rock ; Groundwater ; Hydrogeology ; Miningactivity ; Pollution ; Semi-arid area ; South Africa ; Uranium ; Water pollution ; Water resources
Point- and non-point sources of U associated with miningactivities in the Wonderfonteinspruit catchment, as an example of a dolomitic gold-mining area, as well as pathways of U pollution are discussed. Associated U loads emanating from major
sources are estimated. The results suggest that detected levels of U pollution in the catchment are not only caused by century old miningactivities but also by current operations and that U pollution of water is likely to continue well beyond the closure
Changes in channel morphology associated with placer mining
Carrying capacity ; Channel geometry ; Colorado ; Fluvial processes ; Land use ; Longitudinal section ; Meander ; Miningactivity ; River bed ; Sedimentology ; United States of America
This study attempts to determine whether there is a relation between mining and channel morphologic and sedimentologic parameters (channel shape, bed material characteristics, channel migration, and sinuosity) in the upper basin of the South Platte
River in Colorado. To accomplish this, the South Fork of the South Platte River (a basin that has not been placer mined) and undisturbed reaches on the Middle Fork of the South Platte are compared with mined reaches on the Middle Fork.
Europe ; Foresterie ; Histoire de la géographie ; Histoire des sciences ; Histoire du peuplement ; Industrie extractive ; Législation ; Mine ; Métallurgie ; Norvège ; Ressource minière ; Sachsen ; Slovaquie
Europe ; Extractive industry ; Forestry ; History of geography ; History of sciences ; Legislation ; Metallurgy ; Mine ; Mining resources ; Norway ; Saxony ; Settlement history ; Slovak Republic
industry of the Erzgebirge are described. The most important consequences of mining on forestry, including forest survey, are sketched out. The influence of mining on other activities is further examined.
These papers show expressions of the wide horizons of the great personality of Georgius Agricola, and the extraordinary spiritual vigour that characterised Renaissance Europe. The circumstances in which he came to know and influence the mining
Extractive industry ; Hungary ; Mine ; Mining resources ; Ore geology ; Raw materials
Miningactivities in the North Hungarian Mountains, similar to the extraction of dye earth at Lovas in Transdanubia, started with the flint mining by the Early man in pre historic times, during the Pleistocene e.g. at the Avas Hill, Miskolc
. The extraction of non-metallic minerals of the North Hungarian Mountains has recently come to the fore. The quarrying of building materials has been declining since 1990 and most of the companies were taken over by foreign investors, similar to other mines. - (ZK)
Sustained storage and transport of hydraulic gold mining sediment in the Bear River, California
California ; Catchment area;Watershed ; Fluvial processes ; Gold ; Human impact ; Miningactivity ; Model ; Pollution ; Sediment transport ; United States
This study examines the large deposits of hydraulic gold mining sediment and reevaluates Gilbert's (1917) classic model of sediment transport in a symmetrical wave that is based on hydraulic mining sediment primarily in the Yuba Basin. Sustained
storage and transport of hydraulic mining sediment in the Bear Basin are documented and a revised model of sediment transport is proposed.
Mine drainage is a major water pollution problem in most regions with a history of mining for sulfide-bearing coal and ore-deposits. The objectives of this paper are to describe the types of insoluble Fe compounds associated with sulfatic mine
Années 1878-1920 ; Colonisation ; Géographie de l'Océanie ; Géographie historique ; Industrie extractive ; Investissement ; Mine ; Mise en valeur ; Or ; Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; Papua Territory ; Peuplement ; Plantation ; Siècle 19
Britain proclaimed a Protectorate over Papua in 1884 and in 1888 annexed it as a Crown Colony. In 1895, gold was discovered, and mining accounted for the overwhelming proportion of mineral activity prior to the First World War. The fields were
Belgique ; Carrière ; Charbon ; Fer ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Histoire économique ; Industrie ; Industrie extractive ; Matériaux de construction ; Mine ; Métallurgie ; Population active
The author retraces the history and draws a sketch of the mining industry, especially the coal winning. Old mines and quarries are described and statistical information on coal winning, people employed in the coal mines, iron ore production
Use of mining-contaminated sediment tracers to investigate the timing and rates of historical flood plain sedimentation
Floodplain ; Fluvial processes ; Heavy metals ; Historical geography ; Land use ; Miningactivity ; Nineteenth Century ; Sedimentation ; Tracer ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America ; Wisconsin
Changes in land use practices following European settlement in the 1830s produced accelerated sedimentation on virtually all valley floors in the Blue River Watershed, Wisconsin. The contamination of sediments by Pb and Zn mining allowed
to calculate cross-valley rates of flood plain sedimentation for three time periods : the pre-mining period (1830-1900), the mining period (1900-1920), and the post-mining period (1920-1997). The AA. also examine geomorphic lags in channel adjustments