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Bibeau, Susan E. "The Story of a Nineteenth Century Vermont Mining Town." Thesis, Dartmouth College, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10144600.
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Images that come to mind when one thinks of the bucolic state of Vermont are not likely to include those of a mining landscape. These are reserved for the coalfields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and perhaps the mining ghost towns of the American West. It is not surprising then that the discovery of substantial veins of copper in Orange County was to have dramatic impacts on not only the landscape of Vermont, but also its inhabitants. And in spite of the fits and starts of Vermont’s copper industry, it owns a significant place in history.
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, no fewer than five copper mines were in operation in Orange County. The Ely Mine, located in the southeast corner of Vershire, became one of the most productive copper mines in the United States. At one point employing over 800 miners and laborers, most of whom were Cornish and Irish immigrants, the Ely Mine spawned the creation of a boomtown consisting of over 150 buildings and dwellings. Following one of the earliest labor strikes of the era, the mine closed and, within two decades, the town of Copperfield completely disappeared.
This thesis is an historical narrative that tells the story of the Ely Mine, its boomtown, and particularly its miners by weaving together primary resource material such as United States Federal Census and immigration records, letters, and historical photographs, newspaper articles, and maps.
Copperfield is a story of perseverance and tenacity not only on the part of entrepreneurs and businessmen, but also — and most importantly — on the part of the hundreds of immigrant miners who passed through the Orange County copper mines. Without the contributions of these “ordinary” people, there would be no story to tell.
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Gregory, Gillian. "Paradoxes and practices of modernity in a Guyanese mining town." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66974.
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State and market expansion and consolidation are definitive characteristics of the process of modernization. The ways in which modernization occurs is illustrated in artisanal and medium-scale gold mining in Guyana. This work examines the ongoing process of state modernization in Mahdia, a mining town in Guyana's interior rainforest territory. It outlines the making of this mining place, the economic livelihood strategies that keep people coming and going to this place, and ideas of what it means to be somebody in this place. By exposing cultural paradoxes that are emerging through the process of modernization, this work reiterates the idea that modernity can be found in a broad range of times and places, and does not follow one universal trajectory. Thus, the discrete practices and experiences of modernization in places like Mahdia have also been referred to as the unfolding of "alternative modernities."L'expansion de l'État et la consolidation du marché sont des caractéristiques propres au processus de modernisation. Plusieurs des formes que prend la modernisation sont illustrées dans l'extraction artisanale et à moyenne échelle de l'or en Guyane. Cet ouvrage examine le processus continu de modernisation de l'État dans la ville minière de Mahdia, située à l'intérieur des territoires de forêt tropicale de la Guyane. L'ouvrage décrit la création de ce lieu minier, les stratégies économiques de subsistance qui font de cette localité un centre où les gens viennent et passent ainsi que quelques idées quant à ce que cela peut signifier que « d'être quelqu'un » dans cette ville. En exposant quelques uns des paradoxes culturels qui émergent à travers le processus de modernisation, cet ouvrage réitère l'idée selon laquelle les attentes de la modernité ne coïncident pas toujours avec les différentes réalités locales et de ce fait, les pratiques discrètes et les expériences de modernisation dans des endroits comme Mahdia sont plus fidèlement définies comme le déploiement de "modernités alternatives".
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Cosgrove, Betty Alveen, and b. cosgrove@cqu edu au. "Mount Morgan: images and realitiesdynamics and decline of a mining town." Central Queensland University. School of Humanities, 2001. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20050427.131849.
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Most histories and reports of Mount Morgan concentrate on the mining experience and financial achievements of the first Company rather than the mining town. This dissertation presents a social history of Mount Morgan that addresses the establishment, rise and fall of the town during the period of the first syndicate and succeeding company, 1883-1927. The thesis contends that the transformation of the landscape was to industrial, urban space where the working-class attitudes of miners and others defined a town character, despite the aspiration of many to social status through private enterprise and public influence. Further, the scope of research encompassed local involvement in colonial and state politics, and the presence of local government authority, law courts and press that placed an urban stamp on the town. Issues discussed also relate to geographic, climatic and single company influences that caused the difference between Mount Morgan and other mining towns that did not survive. The traditional perception of mining town impermanence was contradicted at Mount Morgan, where town and suburban communities were witness to a range of collective support in religious adherence, benefit associations, fraternalism and ritual, leisure, sport, education, and social cohesion in times of mining disaster. Moreover, despite
increasing familial connections, antagonistic attitudes prevailed between the defensively parochial town of Mount Morgan and the nearby regional centre of Rockhampton.
The rise of unionism at Mount Morgan challenged an apathetic working-class population to workplace solidarity in reaction to the Company's long established, almost feudal control of the town as well as the mine. It is argued that, despite a decade of
failing ore markets and soaring production costs at the mine, the attitudes and actions of a union dominated workforce were paramount in decline of the town and ultimate closure of the mine. Mount Morgan survived the exodus of thousands of residents. A defiant place, the town exhibited a pride bolstered by the perpetuation of myths that presented a public image shielded from the life-long realities of economic and social adversity.
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Helmuth, Angelo. "Economic diversification of a mining town: a case study of Oranjemund." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003843.
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Can mining industries and mining based localities promote Local Economic Development (LED)? This case study, on the mining town of Oranjemund, seeks to examine the economic diversification prospects of the town. Stakeholder views are considered and their aspirations determined, through an interview process. Relevant theories on economic development, growth and sustainability are outline. Lessons are drawn from local and international empirical studies on mining towns. The roles and contributions stakeholders and institutions could realize that could lead to local economic diversification and LED are defined. The opportunities and threats that could affect the town’s LED process are identified. This paper concludes that it is imperative that sound relationships be developed amongst key stakeholders. It further, recommends that a strategic LED plan be designed for Oranjemund and that national government, through the regional and local authority, lead the process.
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Cosgrove, Betty. "Mount Morgan images and realities : dynamics and decline of a mining town /." Connect to this title online, 2001. http://elvis.cqu.edu.au/thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20050427.131849/.
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Humphrey, Robin. "Social participation and life stories of elderly people in an ex-mining town." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239250.
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Davey, Stephen. "Environmental governance of sand mining in an urban setting : Macassar Dunes, Cape Town, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4842.
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Includes bibliographical references.Sand is a resource in high demand for urban expansion and development. Sand mining operations are often located on the edges of cities. The Macassar Dunes are an important source of building sand for the City of Cape Town. The area is located within the Cape Floral Kingdom, the smallest and richest of the six floral kingdoms of the world. The Macassar Dunes area has been identified as a core flora conservation site due to its unique habitat diversity and quality. South Africa is a developing country and this case study is used to highlight the tensions that arise between the need to provide building sand for development and the need for integrated and accountable management that allows for the sustainable functioning of natural physical and ecological processes as well as enhanced social and economic benefits for people.
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Elias, Amber. "Nanticoke, Pennsylvania: Impacts of the Anthracite Coal Industry: A Case Study." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/333.
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The story of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania from 1747 to 2006 is at the same time a look into the economic, political, and social aspects of America. From the birth of the American Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century, Nanticoke played an important role in the economic health of the country. Profits from capital investment brought great wealth to the elite of the Wyoming Valley and financiers in New York and Philadelphia. The use of immigrant labor to maintain labor costs would presage corporate use of other groups. With the change in technology and the movement of capital elsewhere, Nanticoke faced the trauma of economic hardship and the need to address the human and social cost of the loss of coal mining. The actions taken by the local leadership failed to meet the challenge. Confronting the harsh reality of possible further decline, the community of Nanticoke must take action upon a plan that holds out a possibility of stopping the hemorrhage of its decline, and perhaps even begin a recovery. The people of Nanticoke and their problems are now one being repeated elsewhere in America. The questions raised by what happened in Nanticoke lie at the core of the economic, political, and social questions facing the United States today. Corporate responsibility, quality of life, immigration, and effective urban planning are just some of the issues that Nanticoke's story poses for the rest of America.
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Saarinen, Oiva. "Sudbury: A Historical Case Study of Multiple Urban-Economic Transformation." Ontario Historical Society, 1990. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/288.
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Sudbury serves as a relevant historical case study of a settlement that has undergone
several transformations since its inception as a fledgling village in the latter part of
the nineteenth century. Though changes of this kind have been frequent in Ontario,
they have not normally happened to hinterland resource communities. This article suggests that Sudbury is unique in this regard, having evolved through five distinct stages: (I) a railway company village, (2) a colonial-frontier mining town and city, (3) a regional central-place, (4) a declining metropolis, and (5) a nearly selfsustaining community. The constant restructuring of Sudbury's society and economic base has been caused by a variety of external and internal forces, among which the "human dynamic" has been vital and ever present. The paper suggests that under certain circumstances a resource community can progress from a staples and boom-bust existence to a more sustainable urban economy based on local and regional influences.
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Larsen, Zachary R. "In Defense of the Modern Company Town: Wyoming's Uranium Communities." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7633.
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Most people are at least aware that, in the past, companies that owned mines, lumber mills, and other large-scale industrial projects in isolated areas also ran company towns. For many people, such towns conjure up images miserable working conditions, exploitative company stores, and inadequate shacks for most workers, while managers live in relative luxury up on “snob knob.” Most people are also fairly certain that such towns, at least in the United States, died out about the same time as the horse and buggy. Several industries in Wyoming, however, continued to support company towns through the end of the 20th century, with one such town surviving into the early 2000s.
This project looks at two of these towns supported by the uranium mining and milling industry that dominated central Wyoming’s economy for about 30 years starting in the mid-1950s. These towns, Gas Hills and Jeffrey City, along with Wyoming’s other modern company towns represent a new era in the history of these communities. Furthermore, they actually had many advantages for inhabitants, companies, and the local economy, especially compared to a small conventional community located near a resource boom. Often, and in contrast to the towns in this thesis, conventional towns must scramble to meet the demands of a massive migration, only to be left with unpaid bonds when the resource dries up or becomes no longer profitable.
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Ogborne, Jennifer Honora. ""Setting the best table in the country": Food and Labor at the Coloma Gold Mining Town." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623626.
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The town of Coloma, Montana was settled in the early 1890s as the home of several gold mining companies and their associated employees. Like so many boom towns, the residents had all but abandoned Coloma by 1916. This initial boom phase for Coloma transpired during a critical point in the emergence of modern capitalism, specifically in changing corporate managerial practices. A multi-company open town, Coloma lacked many of the typical characteristics of a paternalistic community, such as scrip and strictly segregated housing. Instead of outright domineering and controlling managerial practices, companies at Coloma manipulated and coerced their work forces through the control of the food provisioning system. This study demonstrates that companies at Coloma dominated the purchase, distribution, and consumption of food through the establishment of a centralized store and company-associated boardinghouses. Companies also offered meals as a type of labor mobilization feast to entice and retain labor populations. to explore the varying degrees of manipulation, this study employs the concept of the system of provision to organize a multi-scalar analysis that addresses the importation, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food products at Coloma. Through the lens of food distribution, this study examines archaeological materials and historical documents to show the extent to which Coloma's companies employed manipulative managerial practices.
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Olshausen, Mattias. "From Company Town to Company Town: Holden and Holden Village, Washington, 1937-1980 & Today." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/717.
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In 1937, Howe Sound Company built the town of Holden, Washington, to support its copper-mining operation at Copper Peak, located in the North Cascade Mountains, approximately 10 miles west of Lake Chelan. The operation produced concentrate from 1937 to 1957, during which time the town was home to a lively community featuring many families, a variety of organized recreational activities, and a public school. It was a company town, in which most property, business, organized activity, and public utilities and services were either directly or indirectly controlled by Howe Sound. After the operation shut down in 1957, the town was abandoned. Three years later, the property was donated to the Lutheran Bible Institute of Issaquah, Washington. It subsequently became Holden Village, an independent, non-profit Lutheran retreat center. Though different in purpose and character from the community that preceded it, life in Holden Village during its formative years (the 1960s and, to a lesser extent, the 1970s), and in the 2010s, was and is similar in a number of ways to life in the mining town. This thesis argues that Holden Village, too, might be considered a company town within a loose definition of the term. The many parallels between the two communities support this argument, and point to the role of the remote setting and the environment in shaping the lives of the town's residents.
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Rockman, Marcia Helen 1971. "Investigation of faunal remains and social perspectives on natural resource use in an 1867 Wyoming gold mining town." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278493.
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This project is an investigation into the role of wild game in the subsistence modes of the miners of the 1867 Wyoming Gold Rush. It is a preliminary step toward understanding both the dynamics of food procurement during the settlement of the American West and the place of those dynamics in a larger model of the history of American relations to and use of natural resources. Three faunal assemblages from different locales within the historic gold-mining town of South Pass City, Wyoming are analyzed and compared in terms of the presence and use of wild and domestic taxa. Historical sources are assessed for evidence of game procurement and perceptions of natural resources. Although the studied assemblages do not empirically represent the wild game depletion suggested by documentary sources, they do reflect cultural preferences of the time, and may represent a situation of depletion and ultimately a shift in utilized game resources.
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Woody, Benjamin. "Depression-Era Coloma: A World-Systems Study of Mining and Daily Life Experiences in a Reoccupied Montana Ghost Town." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06022009-112348/.
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Anthropologically based studies are underdeveloped on the subject of people living in Montana during the Great Depression. During the summer of 2006, archaeological materials were retrieved from a Depression-Era trash dump at Coloma, Montana. From these artifacts and the available historical records about the area, this thesis postulates on the possible daily experiences of the people responsible for the creation of this dump. The data is then used as the foundation for a World-Systems perspective on the site, which, in turn, connects this mining camp to the world at large during the 1930s.
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Philip, Loudine. "The historic built environment and a sense of place : Jagersfontein : a mining town in the Free State , South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13163.
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Includes bibliographical references.The primary purpose of this study is to determine the degree to which the historic built environment plays a role in the establishment of a Sense of Place in the South African context with its diverse population and complex political history. The underlying rationale for this focus is that a strong connection between a Sense of Place and the historic built environment has the potential to translate to a strong motivation for its preservation. The focus in this research is on a single case, a historic diamond mining town in the Free State Province of South Africa, dating to 1869, with a rich and diverse history. The research was conducted employing a multi-paradigmatic approach grounded in Phenomenology and Psychometrics.
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Nordin, Maria, and Johanna Möller. "A golden future? : A qualitative field study performed in the Peruvian town Celendín about the local youth and the geopolitical event of mining." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-227526.
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Hinton, Jennifer Jean. "Gender differentiated impacts and benefits of artisanal mining : engendering pathways out of poverty. A case study of Katwe-Kabatooro Town Council, Uganda." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35920.
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Artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) is a crucial livelihood for over 20 million miners in developing countries throughout the world (Veiga and Baker, 2004). Despite misperceptions of “mining as men’s work”, ~40-50% of Africa’s artisanal miners are women who occupy critical roles in commercial, domestic and social spheres (Lahiri Dutt, 2003; Hinton et al, 2003a). The widespread poverty, environmental degradation and poor social conditions which characterize the ASM poverty cycle are largely attributed to its informal nature and use of crude technologies while its capacity to reduce poverty through increased incomes is also well recognized. Numerous policy reforms and interventions have been implemented accordingly with variable success.
This research posits that ASM policy and action must further be informed by understanding of factors that determine livelihood outcomes through a gender lens. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to investigate the gender-differentiated constraints facing women and men miners compared to those in fishing, trading and other activities as well as the main assets or poverty reducing measures to which they have access.
Based on a case study in the salt mining community of Katwe-Kabatooro Town Council in Western Uganda, it was found that women are clearly disadvantaged in most assets that comprise the foundation for sustainable livelihoods. Nevertheless, many women miners’ vulnerability has prompted them to “trade up” their assets of labour, cash and growing social capital through livelihood diversification, leading to improved socio-economic and health outcomes. While this suggests a clear pathway out of poverty, the majority of women miners often cope by using strategies that compromise their wellbeing, with far reaching implications for themselves and the community.
Although a number of women have been able to overcome major constraints, gender inequalities were shown to play a prominent role in exacerbating the ASM poverty cycle. Findings point to women’s lack of autonomy and decision-making power as a root cause of negative outcomes for health and wellbeing of both women and men. If ASM policy and technical intervention increase emphasis on building human and social capital, more success can be achieved in realizing the poverty reduction potential of ASM.
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Weaver, Brendan J. M. "Para beneficiar la plata: labor, role, and status in a silver refinery during the First century of spanish imperialism in the town of Porco." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113639.
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Before the Spanish conquest, the town of Porco, in the Department of Potosí in modern-day Bolivia, was the site of one of the most important Inca mining projects. During the viceregal period it became the focus of the first Spanish silver mining operations of the in the Andes. This region offers an excellent opportunity for historical archeology to ask questions about the relationship between the states that organized such mining projects and the workers who exploited the ore. Such an undertaking grants us a better understanding of the dynamics that had a profound impact on the origins of the modern Andean economy. This article presents ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence in order to discuss the organization of colonial labor categories, and the development of the changing social roles and status of skilled workers associated with the south-central Andean mining industry. In doing so, I trace the regional transitions in labor from the Inca to Spanish empires. Excavations at the colonial site of Ferro Ingenio, a silver refinery in the San Juan Valley, southwest of the village of Porco, shed new light on labor in the first century of Spanish colonialism and how skilled indigenous workers negotiated their positions within colonial society.Antes de la conquista española, el pueblo de Porco, en el departamento de Potosí, Bolivia, fue uno de los asientos mineros más importante de los incas. Durante el virreinato, fue el foco de las primeras operaciones de minería de plata española en los Andes. Esta región ofrece una excelente oportunidad para que la arqueología histórica plantee preguntas acerca de la relación entre los estados que organizaban dichos proyectos mineros y los trabajadores que explotaban el mineral, que nos ayuden a entender esa dinámica que tuvo un profundo impacto en los orígenes de la economía andina moderna. Este artículo presenta evidencia arqueológica y etnohistórica para examinar la organización de ciertas categorías laborales coloniales, y el desarrollo de los papeles y posiciones sociales de trabajadores asociados a la industria minera andina sur-central para trazar la transición de la mano de obra en la región del imperio de los incas al de los españoles. Las excavaciones en el sitio colonial de Ferro Ingenio, una refinería de plata en el valle de San Juan, al sudoeste del pueblo de Porco, arrojan nuevas luces sobre el tema de la mano de obra en el primer siglo de colonialismo español y de cómo los trabajadores calificados negociaban sus propias posiciones en la sociedad colonial.
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Didenko, Anton. "Challenges to effective treaty-making in contemporary transnational commercial law : lessons from the Cape Town Convention." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a7574e4c-6c4a-4855-9dc4-0c689b32c936.
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This thesis is the first detailed and comprehensive research of the history of the 2001 Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the 'Convention' or 'CTC') and its protocols. It is submitted that the quality of response to the various challenges of the treaty-making process can serve as a measure of a convention's success, and that the unique characteristics of the CTC make it a prime target for such research. The author identifies and analyses the most problematic issues in the process of development of the Convention and its protocols, including the latest draft protocol on mining, agricultural and construction equipment. This research focuses on the documentary history of the CTC and its Aircraft Protocol (as the only protocol currently in force), relying primarily on the materials published by UNIDROIT and other international organisations, and shows that not all of the challenges found an adequate response in the Convention. Nonetheless, the shortcomings pale in comparison with the Convention's achievements: the CTC has created a highly effective machinery for regulating international interests in mobile assets. The author does not perform empirical ex post analysis of implementation of the Cape Town Convention, but this thesis will form a solid background for such research in the future. This study, apart from its scholarly importance, has clear practical value: its conclusions (including a number of treaty-making lessons originating from this research) can assist governmental officials, representatives of international organisations and legal advisors (both external and internal) participating in the treaty-making process and, it is hoped, will strengthen he attractiveness of conventions as an instrument of harmonising commercial law in the future.
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MOREIRA, Jairo Barbosa. "Mulheres docentes: saberes e fazeres na cidade garimpeira, Cristalândia - TO(1980-2007)." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2008. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2085.
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Previous issue date: 2008-08-29The objective of this work is to study feminine professorship in the mining town Cristalândia-Tocantins, during years 1980 to 2007. This thesis analyses practices and statements teachers constructed about themselves, their profession, their knowledge, reading and relationships. This study questions the essentialist discourse that claims teaching to be natural for women; and demonstrates how the teaching of these women challenge the masculine world of mining, the context in which the problematic of this research is situated. This is qualitative research, constructed by interviews with miners, sons and daughters of miners, retired teachers, and women teachers exercising their profession. Oral history is used as the base for collection of data. Collected information is analyzed in light of theoretical referential approaching cultural history for an interdisciplinary exposition of data. Primary sources of this research are the following: Chartier (1990, 1991), Certeau (2004, 2006), Perrot (2006, 2007), Burke (1992, 1997, 2003, 2005), Ginzburg (2006) Melo (2007), Pesavento (2005). Other works consulted and utilized are: Arroyo (2000), Benjamin (1994), Bosi (2004, 2006), Bakhtin (2000, 2006), Foucault (1983,1996, 1997, 2002), Freire (1983, 1996), Halbwaachs (20060, Guimarães (2005), Lajolo (1999), Larrosa (2003) , Le Goff (2003), Louro (1997, 2003), Meyer (2003), Macedo (1996, 1997), Thomson (1997, 2001), Thompson (2002), Zilberman (2006). The results of investigation conclude that teaching women in the mining town of Cristalândia-Tocantins (1980-2007), though their educative practices, especially their reading, constructed tactics of intervention and resistance to existing machismo in this town. Research reveals also in importance of women in the construction of this town, though their knowledge and practices.
Este trabalho tem como objeto de estudo a docência feminina na cidade garimpeira, Cristralândia-TO, entre os anos de 1980 a 2007 e visa analisar as práticas e representações que as mulheres docentes construíram acerca de si mesmas, de sua profissão, do saber, das leituras e das relações de gênero; questionar o discurso essencialista que anuncia o magistério como algo natural para as mulheres e demonstrar como as educativas dessas mulheres se contrapõem ao universo machista do garimpo, contexto esse no qual se situa a problemática desta pesquisa.Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, construída através de entrevistas com garimpeiros, filhos(as) de garimpeiros, professoras aposentadas, ex- diretores de escolas, e mulheres docentes no exercício da profissão. A análise das informações foi realizada à luz do referencial teórico da abordagem da história cultural que permitiu analisar os dados sobre uma perspectiva interdisciplinar. Constituíram referências desta pesquisa o pensamento de Roger Chartier (1990, 1991), Michel de Certeau (2004, 2006), Michelle Perrot (2006, 2007), Burke (1992,1997, 2003, 2005), Ginzburg (2006), Melo (2007), Pesavento (2005), entre outras. Os resultados da investigação apontaram como mulheres docentes na cidade garimpeira, Cristalândia-TO (1980-2007), através de suas práticas educativas, sobretudo, de suas leituras, têm construído táticas de intervenção e resistência ao machismo existente em Cristalândia-TO. A pesquisa relevou também a grande importância das mulheres na construção da cidade, através de seus saberes e fazeres.
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Gyogluu, Sarah. "Planning and development of mining towns in Ghana: an exploration of mining and urban development frameworks and practices." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1446.
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Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
Master of Technology: Town and Regional Planning
in the Faculty of Informatics and Design
at the Cape Peninsula University Of Technology
2013Ghana has had a long history of mining especially with respect to gold, dating back to the Trans-Saharan Trade where gold precipitated civilisations and was a main commodity of trade among Europeans, merchants and ancient kingdoms. In the 21st century, globalisation coupled with increasing urbanisation has been driving demand for mineral resources and thus the resurging commodity booms. This increases foreign direct investment (FDI) in mining countries like Ghana resulting in not only growth in gross domestic product (GDP) but impacts that transcend macro-level and have direct and indirect impacts on communities in mining regions. The result is often that livelihoods are altered, spin-offs on the local economy emerge and the attendant settlement functions impact on the efficacy of existing mining and development planning and regulatory frameworks. Tarkwa is one of Ghana’s traditional gold mining towns and is the substantive context of the research. The main objectives of the research were: To identify the existing key mining and development planning regulations, gaps present and how these have impacted on the efficacy of governments management practices in responding to consequences of mining-led development. To analyse the urban household’s perceptions of mining impacts on livelihoods, business enterprises and livelihood coping strategies and mechanisms. To assess the implications of these emerging planning and development frameworks and trends for the effective planning and development of mining towns in Ghana The highlights of the findings of the research in relation to the above objectives included: The research revealed that urban households’ perception of mining on their livelihoods was mixed. One of the perceived negative impacts of mining that stuck out from overall responses was scarcity of land for purposes of farming and building. With respect to coping with mining impacts, respondents largely employed a combination of assets to survive the mining environment. However, respondents’ dependence on human capital-that is, their ability to work and generate income underpinned all livelihoods capitals. Over 96 percent of business enterprises, perceived purchasing power of people and related available or potential market as the most positive spin-off from mining yet. The informal economy was dominant in terms of business enterprise ownership with informal trading as the most principal form of business enterprise in the informal economy. The research findings have significant meaning within the broad context of mining-led urban development and with implications for theory, the development and planning for resource-driven settlements (practice) and for further research. For example, with regard to development and planning practice, some glaring challenges include the lack of a proper land management system, “superiority” of some institutions (mine houses)in dealing with the Town and Planning Department and Municipal Assembly, lack of effective collaboration between related institutions, gaps in planning legislations make planning near impossible in Tarkwa. The effect being that Tarkwa is growing (spatially to accommodate businesses and people coming in) but without an effective and responsive development planning system to effectively channel and coordinate this growth so that long term development is sustained. The study concludes and recommends that, there is need for a rethink in the way mining towns are planned for and developed in Ghana and should include: a review of the Minerals and Mining law (Act 703) to engender more rights and protection to the communities, a constant review of concession and other agreements to reflect a constantly changing world order, institutional collaboration for planning and development, and long term planning which synchronises spatial and economic planning to capture advantages of agglomeration in and around the Tarkwa mining region.
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Hysong, Tracy Anne. "House dust and inorganic urinary arsenic in two Arizona mining towns." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278768.
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Residents of copper mining and smelting towns may have increased risk of arsenic exposure from elevated arsenic contained in environmental media. To determine the relationship of arsenic in house dust to inorganic urinary arsenic concentrations, a door to-door survey was conducted in Hayden and Winkelman, Arizona. A total of 122 households (404 individuals) participated; eighty-five provided dust samples. Urine was collected at first morning void and analyzed for total and speciated arsenic. Speciation of arsenic was performed in samples with total arsenic above 10μg/L (N = 106). The generalized estimating equation was used to determine the relationship between urinary and house dust arsenic concentrations, allowing adjustment for the correlation of measurements obtained from the same home. Seafood consumption during the past three days and smoking contributed significantly to inorganic urinary arsenic, after adjusting for age and gender. Arsenic in house dust was not significantly associated with inorganic urinary arsenic measurements in this population.
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Horn, Claire Helen. "Well enough to work health and class in southern Colorado coal mining towns, 1900-1930 /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Brewster, Thomas M. "An Historical Coal Mining Community and Its School: A Study of Pocahontas High School, 1908-1991." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29752.
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Pocahontas High School, the smallest of four Tazewell County high schools, is presently located in the historic town of Pocahontas, Virginia. From the school's establishment in 1908 until 1955, the high school was located at the top of Water Street within the town limits. In 1955, students were moved to a new building at its present site just inside the town's corporate limits. The school today serves the communities of Abbs Valley, Boissevain, and the Town of Pocahontas, Virginia.
This study included an examination of the role of the school in the mining community, and the relationship between the coal company and the school. Thus, the researcher reviewed literature-surrounding life in mining industrial towns to determine whether Pocahontas conformed to the conventional interpretations of such mining-industrial communities. The researcher also considered the life of the school and community following the cessation of mining operations in Pocahontas. An examination of the reasons for the school having remained open despite declining enrollment and the importance of the school to its communities was examined through the eyes of local community leaders, residents, and graduates of Pocahontas High School.
This study employed conventional historical research methods in order to document the history of Pocahontas High School. The data collected from documents and interviews were handled qualitatively, with some data appearing in the form of numbers and graphs. Data gathered for this study were derived from both primary and secondary sources. This study used written, pictorial, and oral sources. Oral materials included oral history interviews with local historians, public officials and individuals involved with Pocahontas High School during the period of study. Triangulation verification techniques were used to accurately describe the impact of coal mining and the closing of the mine on the development, growth, and decline of the school and community.Ed. D.
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Manenzhe, Thiathu Darriyl. "A critical review of the housing policy and the State's intervention in mining towns in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29485.
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Since 2012, there has been increasing government interest in mining towns. This interest was occasioned by the Marikana shooting. This interest, led by the presidency through Inter-ministerial Committee on the Revitalisation of Distressed Mining Towns and Communities has had impact on human settlements. This dissertation provides an overview of the Mining Towns Programme and its evolution, identify some of the major pitfalls and assumptions of the programme, and propose an alternative. It also provides and reflects a sustained critique of the approach of the state in the creation of human settlements and the provision of housing in mining towns. Furthermore, the dissertation attempts to assess the efficacy of human settlements approach to mining towns. In doing this, I argue that despite the increased interest, the approach adopted has fundamental weaknesses. These weaknesses range from the fundamental departure from the original intention and focus of the programme, the over-reliance on the existing but inappropriate human settlements delivery instruments and the ignorance of and the weakened role of local government in the programme. In its reliance on the existing human settlements delivery instruments, the implementation and delivery of houses has not addressed the problems faced by mineworkers. Moreover, the state has also overlooked the deep historical challenges of mining towns, both in terms of context and practice and this has undermined the effective implementation of the programme. There are also other institutional and socioeconomic problems associated with mining towns and this has not been properly assessed. The dissertation critically evaluates the approach and the shortcomings of the Mining Towns Programme against these challenges and posits some alternatives.
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Imaniranzi, Emmanuel. "The response of other drivers to mini-bus taxi drivers' on-road aggressive behaviour : a case study in Cape Town, South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97020.
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Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Every year, more than 1.24 million traffic related deaths are registered globally with the highest fatality rates in middle- and low income countries. Minibus taxis represent the most dominant mode of public transportation associated with road traffic crashes and injuries in most African countries. From a safety perspective, aggressive driving behaviour is one of the main causes of road traffic crashes. This study examined the nature and the frequency of the most common types of the minibus taxis drivers’ on-road aggressive behaviour as well as the corresponding response behaviour of drivers of other vehicles to those behaviours. The research was done through video observations in Cape Town, South Africa. Through questionnaires, this study also explored the effect of driver age and gender of minibus taxi drivers on the on-road aggressive behaviour. The effect of age and gender of drivers frustrated by minibus taxi drivers’ aggressive on-road behaviours on levels of anger aroused as well as on the response behaviours reported was investigated from within the framework of a frustration and aggression model of aggressive driving. In a total of 7,266 minibus taxis observed from three different sites, 943 aggressive driving behaviours noted were divided into three categories: traffic obstructions (stopping in the road or outside bus stops), disregarding traffic signs and signals (red light running and violating stop lines), and improper passing behaviours (cutting in too close, overtaking on road shoulder or on yellow lane, crossing solid lines to pass vehicles in the next lane, inappropriate lane utilisation). Observations were coded based on pre-determined evaluation indices. The more frequent response manoeuvres by drivers behind aggressive minibus taxis were swerving to the next lanes, accelerating to refuse gaps for minibus taxis, running behind minibus taxi red light runners, and hooting. The results from the questionnaire survey revealed that driver age and gender affected both the minibus taxi drivers’ on-road aggressive behaviours and the response behaviours reported by other drivers. Respondents reported that younger minibus taxi drivers exhibit more on-road aggressive behaviour than old minibus taxi drivers. Male and younger drivers frustrated by minibus taxis’ on-road aggressive behaviours reported riskier and more severe forms of reactions than frustrated female and older drivers. The responses of drivers of other vehicles to the minibus taxi drivers’ on-road aggressive behaviours have parallels with the responses of individuals to social bullying or victimisation, as researched and explained in social-psychological theory. More work is needed to explore this relationship but it is possible that the responses of drivers of other vehicles to the minibus taxi drivers’ aggressive behaviours could be explained by these theories.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Elke jaar word meer as 1.240.000 verkeer verwante sterftes met die hoogste sterftekoerse in die middel- en lae-inkomste lande geregistreer. Minibus-taxi's verteenwoordig die mees dominante vorm van openbare vervoer wat verband hou met verkeer ongelukke en beserings in die meeste van die Afrika- lande. Wat veiligheid betref, is aggressiewe bestuursgedrag een van die belangrikste oorsake van die verkeers-ongelukke. Hierdie studie ondersoek die aard en die frekwensie van die mees algemene vorme van minibus taxi-bestuurders se aggressiewe padgedrag sowel as die reaksies van bestuurders van ander voertuie op dié gedrag. Die navorsing is deur middel van video waarneming in Kaapstad uitgevoer. Hierdie studie het ook die effek van die minibus taxibestuurders se ouderdom en geslag op aggressiewe padgedrag met vraelyste ondersoek. Die uitwerking van aggressiewe bestuurgedrag op die vlakke van woede wat deur ander bestuurders ervaar word, sowel as op hul reaksies is vanuit die raamwerk van 'n frustrasie en aggressie model van aggressiewe bestuur ondersoek. In totaal van 7266 minibus-taxi's is waargeneem op drie verskillende plekke. Die 943 voorvalle van aggressiewe ry-gedrag is in drie kategorieë verdeel naamlik verkeer obstruksies, verontagsaming van verkeerstekens en -seine, en onbehoorlike gedrag. Gedrag is gekodeer deur van voorafbepaalde evaluering-sindekse gebruik te maat. Hierdie gedrag het ingesluit belemmer in a van verkeer, insny voor ander verkeer, kruising van soliede lyne, onvanpaste laangebruik, verbysteek op pad-skouers of op die geellyne, verontagsaming van rooi verkeersseine, en die oortreding van stoplyne. Die mees waargenome reaksies deur voertuie agter aggressiewe minibus-taxi's is wegswenk na die volgende lane, versnelling om gapings vir minibus-taxi's te weier, naloop agter taxi wat deur verkeerseine ry, en die gebruik van die toeter. Die resultate van die vraelysopnames het getoon dat die bestuurder se ouderdom en geslag beide die taxi- bestuurders se aggressiewe padgedrag en die reaksie-gedrag daarop bepaal. Resondente het aangedui dat jonger minibus-taxi-bestuurders meer aggressiewe padgedrag as ouer minibus taxi-bestuurders toon. Die response van die ander bestuurders op taxibestuurders se aggressiewe padgedrag het ooreenkomste met die reaksies van individue tot sosiale boeliegedrag of viktimisering , soos nagevors en verduidelik in sosiaal-sielkundige teorie. Verdere werk is nodig om hierdie verhouding te verken, aangesien dit moontlik is dat die reaksies van bestuurders van ander voertuie op minibustaxi- bestuurders se aggressiewe padgedrag deur hierdie teorieë verklaar kan word.
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Robertson, Leslie Anne. "Politics of cursing : imagining human difference in a BC mining town." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13831.
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In the late 19th century, an English entrepreneur arrived on the B.C. frontier eager to learn the whereabouts of coal seams in the area. In exchange for this knowledge he courted and promised to marry an "Indian Princess." After receiving the information, he jilted the woman and submitted the first coal syndicate application for the Elk Valley. Indigenous people cast a
curse on William Fernie, on the region and its residents. They would suffer from fires, floods and famine. This narrative forms the backbone of my dissertation. It is deeply ingrained in expressions of local identity, tied to personal histories and ideas of social justice. Ktunaxa traditionalists officially lifted the curse in a public ceremony in Fernie in 1964. I trace how
participants speak about this event and the legend across generations and within shifting
ideological contexts. Cursing is an important theme throughout this work. It implies the power that stories have to carry and construct meanings about who people are. My dissertation is an ethnography of ideas about human difference generated and transmitted through time and through narratives. Fernie, B.C. is currently transforming from a predominantly working-class resource-based
town to an internationally recognized destination ski resort. I trace images, legends and theories as powerful narrative resources in the contexts of colonialism, war, immigration, labour strife, natural disaster, treaty-making and development for tourism. Folklore, mass media, scholarly theories and political discourses propagate narratives about human difference shaping
the ways that people are imagined. Although rephrased and sometimes disguised, fundamental forms of race, gender, class, nationality, religion, age, locality and sexual preference remain intact. In Part I, I look at ideas of difference perpetuated in hegemonic discourses during three
overlapping time periods. More contemporary taxonomies of difference appear in Part II. Ideas are transmitted across generations, they are evident in public performances and in narratives of place and space. Through participants' accounts I examine intersections between personal
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Ferrandiz, Susan. "McIntyre, Pennsylvania, the everyday life of a coal mining company town: 1910-1947 photos, documents, memories of town residents /." 2002. http://academics.sru.edu/library/theses/Mcintyre_acrobat/Introduction.pdf.
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Ajayi, Paul Oluwanifemi. "Reconstructing the history of urban development in the mining town of Virginia, Free State between 1940 and 2015." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25143.
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A research report submitted In partial fulfilment for the degree Master of Science (Geographical Information Systems & Remote Sensing). to the School of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
, July 2017The nature of urban development experienced by mining towns across the world has been a subject of concern among urban planners because of its transitory nature. Most times mining towns develop gloriously into booming urban centres that create employment, generate wealth and satisfaction. All these fades into oblivion as soon as the mines get depleted. Mining towns often go through a number of urban processes which have been considered an expression of ‘infrastructural violence’ especially in the earlier stage of urban growth, and continually persists throughout the town’s life span. This research sought to reconstruct the history of urban development in the mining town of Virginia, Free State, and to quantify the manifestations of infrastructural violence throughout its timeline using GIS and remote sensing. Hence, land use and land cover maps were produced from aerial photographs, topographical maps and Landsat images through manual on-screen digitizing and classification using supervised support vector machine algorithms. Land use change detection analysis was conducted on the produced images using the cross classification and tabulation tool of QGIS 2.18.4 and the post classification tool of ENVI 5.3. Landscape metrics were employed to calculate the dimensions of growth and change experienced by all the land use classes during the timeline under study. Results obtained from this study confirmed the thoughts and findings of several theories vis a vis the nature of mining towns. Results reveal a rapid growth in the urban formal land use class up until 1995 with urban expansion and sprawl happening in the years between 1986 and 1995 with metrics of CA, NP and ED multiplying to twice their initial values ten years earlier. The urban informal land use class also experienced its subtle growth throughout the timeline of the study with its own urban expansion also happening between 1986 and 1995 with double increase in CA, NP and ED metric values. However, unlike the formal class that experienced decline after this period of urban expansion, the informal class continued to experience growth up until the end of the study period. Infrastructural violence was measured using the fractal dimension index (AWMPFD) of the landscape metrics for the formal and informal LU class. The results reveal continuous fragmentation throughout the period of study but with higher values in the years in which urban development started.
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Li, Ju-Yin, and 李如茵. "Memory and Communication of Mining Town” Construction and Locality of New museum -The Case Study of The Gold museum." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/t38pc6.
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“The Gold Museum” is located in the area of Reifan(瑞芳) because the place being featured in films such as City of Sadnes, Hill of No Return, and A borrowed life ,the local sightseeing has been presented to a wild audience, evoking and inspiring the identity of the area ; As a result, the town has become an attraction of cultural tourism ; In addition , plenty of relevant academic researches about “Shuei-Jin-Jiou mining sites” have sprung up. The ruined mining remains have turned into a must-visit location for domestic and foreign tourists alike. The museum shows that, through recovery of the local culture, the construction of locality becomes an important and unique reaction to the influence of global capitalism. Due to the “reproduction of the Mining town”, in the recent years, ”Shuei-Jin-Jiou” has become a popular index for cultural tourism in Taiwan. After seeing the display at the museum and being aware of its importance to the development of the area, I set to research “The Gold Museum of Jinguashih Remains”. In the research design, I used Visual Data Analysis (VDA) in the field to explore the exhibits in the gold museum and understand how the museum as a cultural agent presents the local meaning. I also used semi structured interviews to better understand the concept of the relationship between cultural audience and the exhibition. In conclusion, the study found The Gold museum as a cultural intermediary between the local and the spectators, the museum works as an agent making a cultural field of Jinguashih, through the contact and interaction of visitors and its exhibits; allowing spectators to grab a basic knowledge of the local culture and its history. The researcher will summarize the findings to explore mineral display and how the exhibition helps to construct the locality of Jinguashi . Therefore, actions of spectators are involved in the production process of the exhibition.
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Bubala, Jubilee. "Assessment of human consumption of wild and cultivated plants in Kanana, a gold mining town in North West Province." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/14960.
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This study evaluated potential health risks associated with the consumption of commonly consumed leafy vegetables, Amaranthus hybridus (tepe), Brassica oleracea (cabbage) and Spinacia oleracea (spinach) in the gold mining town of Kanana in North West Province, where these three plants were the most commonly consumed. Structured interviews were conducted with 40 households to determine their socioeconomic status and the consumption patterns of vegetables (cultivated and wild plants). Along with interviews, plant samples were sampled in home gardens and at various harvesting locations in the wild for chemical analysis. Finally, analysis of mercury content in the sampled three leafy vegetable species was performed to ascertain the contributions of the vegetables to the dietary mercury intake among a predominantly young and poor subpopulation of Kanana, which was found to be largely dependent on state welfare grants and on the cultivation and gathering of wild plants for survival.
The study found that all three leafy vegetable species under analysis had mercury concentrations that exceeded the maximum permitted by the World Health Organisation. The highest mean mercury concentrations were found in A. hybridus 0.287μg/g dry mass and the lowest in S. oleracea 0.128μg/g dry mass. Equally, mercury ingestion through the three leafy vegetables by adults in the surveyed subgroups of Kanana exceeded thresholds prescribed by the (2007). Based on consumption patterns, dietary mercury intake by adults exceeded the recommended limits by one order of magnitude, with yearly dose exceeding by as much as four and three orders of magnitude. Long term mercury exposure can cause damage to the central nervous system and chronic intoxication. The surveyed subpopulation is therefore exposed to health risks from mercury toxicity. To ensure food safety and to protect the residents from metal toxicity, awareness programmes are recommended to educate communities living in the vicinity of mines to avoid the areas of highest contamination, such as the artisanal mine dumps and (in this case) the Schoonspruit stream, and to control the artisanal use of mercury. Alternative vegetable gardening methods such as vegetable container gardening using unpolluted soil can also be implemented for the community. In addition, remediation of all the sites where local people cultivate vegetables and gather edible wild plants should be considered where feasible. The insights gained through the study should be used to inform local land use planning and create awareness among personnel from local regulators and development agencies. The insights can also be used to inform environmental management planning processes, risk mitigation and social impact assessment for industries in the region, in particular those involved in mining.
Keywords: consumption patterns, gold mining, human health risk, leafy vegetables, mercury.
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Shen, Chia-Ju, and 沈家如. "Is Tourism the Nice Future of the Small Mining Town?! Residents’ Tourism Development Attitudes of Shueinandong Community, Taipei County, Taiwan." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68264885914935817398.
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Community peoples’ perception and attitudes on tourism is a good indicator of whether an area could become a successful tourist spot or not. Yet, in an area possible for tourist development, which local residents will show positive and supportive attitude towards the development of tourism? In contrast, which local residents will show opposition and negative attitudes? Why do they support and why do they oppose? These are questions that need to be clarified in order to well-plan and well-prepare for tourism development. Shueinandong was a mining community in early days and is close to Chiu-Fen and Chin-Kua-Shih in Taipei County, Taiwan. The three communities had joint-operated mining industry until 1985. After observation of Chiu-Fen and Chin-Kua-Shih communities from its long-time decline to recent world-famous tourism development, residents in Shueinandong especially have deep feelings concerning local tourism development. The main data of this study was collected with qualitative in-depth interviews. The research subjects were 25 residents, with different age and social-economical background, in Shueinandong. The results of this study indicate residents’ attitudes toward tourism development could be classified as four different types. “Enthusiastic action” is the category that people, mostly in restaurant business and/or recreation-fishing industry, having considerable knowledge regarding tourism development. They already did investment in tourism, hoping tourists would bring more economical benefits to the community so that the declining hometown could become prosper again. “Waiting for opportunities” is the people mostly support tourism development, yet without related experiences in tourist industry, they do not have actions since they are not certain about the feedback. Thus, they will follow when they see the other investors succeed. “Forced to accept” is the people who do not like the idea of tourism; nevertheless, if it has become a fact, they would join and respond, accordingly. “Oppositions” mostly are elder people who have children work and live outside of town. They consider tourism development would change local community and lose its simple, quiet and friendly atmosphere. They believe most economic benefits will belong to outside investors and local people can only have garbage and safety problems. They think tourism development cannot bring good benefits to local residents or the community.
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Faucher, Alexandre. "De l’or et des putes : vie et mort d’un village de 'squatters' abitibien." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10390.
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Cette étude s’intéresse au village de squatters de Roc-d’Or, surnommé Putainville, qui apparaît en 1936 avant d’être détruit par le gouvernement provincial au milieu des années 1940. Notre but est de comprendre pourquoi cette agglomération, qui est érigée illégalement sur les terrains gouvernementaux et qui est réputée pour être un important foyer de déviance, est relativement tolérée pendant une décennie avant que les résidences soient détruites ou déménagées à Malartic.
D’abord, nous expliquons pourquoi cette agglomération, sans reconnaissance légale et dans laquelle les résidents ne sont pas propriétaires des terrains sur lesquels leurs bâtiments sont érigés, apparaît en Abitibi-Témiscamingue au début des années 1930. Ensuite, nous nous intéressons à l’aspect physique et à la population de Roc-d’Or. Le taux de masculinité, la mobilité, la diversité d’emploi et l’origine ethnique des résidents sont analysés. De plus, nous nous penchons sur la mauvaise réputation de Putainville : autant le contrôle judiciaire que la présence du monde interlope sont étudiés. Finalement, comme les mœurs légères des résidents et l’influence du curé de Malartic sont souvent considérées comme étant à l’origine de la décision d’éliminer ce village, nous évaluons la pertinence de cette croyance et nous déterminons si d’autres motifs, notamment monétaire ou politique, sont aussi entrés en ligne de compte.This research is about the squatters’ village of Roc-d'Or nicknamed Putainville. It was established in 1936 and demolished by the Québec government in the mid 1940. Our objective is to learn why this town with a lawless reputation that was built on the government fields has been tolerated for a decade even if it was considered as illegal by the authority and to learn why all the buildings were destroyed or moved to Malartic. First of all, we will explain why this village without any legal status was built in the 1930s and why all the people who have lived in Roc-d'Or were not owners of their field. After that, the memoires will focus on the geographical and architectural aspect and on the population of Roc-d'Or. We'll explore the gender rate, the mobility of the people, the different kinds of jobs we found in Roc-d'Or and the ethnical origins of the inhabitants. Furthermore in this research, it will be about how was the reputation of the town. We will develop about the judicial intervention and the underworld. Finally, the last part of this dissertation will look at the idea that Roc-d'Or was shut down by the clerical authorities due to the deviant behavior, or we will try to see if it's a myth.
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Jamali, Andrew Alfred. "Exploring risky sexual behaviours and peoples' response to behaviour change : HIV/AIDS prevention activities : the case of Boksburg Town Central mining community." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1453.
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Wang, Mingtien, and 王明典. "Application of Data Mining to Study on Effect of Learning Achievement Caused by Difference between Town and Country--An Example of Elementary School in Chia-Yi County." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79659872119998669237.
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This study aims to analyze the various course scores of pupils based on association rules of data mining technology, and the students with poor scores in all learning course will be screened to proceed with remedial teaching. Five scores of Chinese, English, Mathematics, Society, and Nature for various pupils were selected as analysis variables, and applied method of regression analysis to study the deviation in learning achievements caused by difference between town and country. The results will be as a reference for resources allocating in country elementary schools.An overall case association analysis, which set a condition of the minimum support with value of 0.1 and minimum reliability with value of 0.9, reveals a significant correlation among variables. In case of lower academic record by setting the condition shown above the association rules statement: The scores of English (ENG=E) and Society (SOC=D) for male pupils (SEX=M) were poor in country area (CITY=A), and required for remedial learning. According to the results of statistical analysis, that showed the correlation within learning scores of courses was significantly positive, and the same as results of association analysis. For the study of learning achievements based on difference between town and country, the scores in urban were significantly better than scores in village, and the female pupils were significantly better than male pupils in average scores for the T-test analysis.
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Tunce, Loyiso. "The dynamics of mining towns: the case of Khutsong township, Carletonville." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22970.
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A research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Science in Town and Regional Planning at the school of architecture and planning to the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2016Mining and the mining experience is one that has been written about extensively in academia. The history of mining in South Africa has not only shaped the physical landscape of the country but has shaped peoples understanding of the different spaces. The changing dynamics of mining, especially gold mining has played a role on the different experiences in contemporary South Africa. The decline in employment and production in the sector has meant that people in these gold mining towns have had to adapt to the changing times. The concept of resilience allows the research to view spaces such as that of Khutsong to see how people in such places are able to be resilient and the factors impacting on their resilience.
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Mabayani, Taboka. "The economic sustainability of small mining towns: the case of Jwaneng, Botswana." Thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/29053.
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Development Planning, 24 October 2019The impacts of mine closure on the local communities and on the nation’s economic wellbeing where mining is the main economic activity are often very devastating. This research explores the alternative ways that could be adopted to achieve the economic development of Jwaneng, Botswana. Sustainable Local economic development (LED) is perceived as the solution to moving towards a prosperous future. However LED assumes that all local actors (residents, physical/ urban planner, mine workers, private sector, public sector/government and the mine) will collaborate in shaping the future of Jwaneng. This research highlights that the primary role of urban and economic development planning in working towards economic sustainability in small mining towns is to produce policies and programs that promote economic growth post mine closure. The economy of Jwaneng has performed well for the past two decades; however, the town’s physical developed has progressed slowly. Jwaneng has no policy or program that focuses solely on the economic development of the town as such these calls for the need for one that works towards achieving a better economic future post mine closure that enhances the quality of life for the people of Jwaneng. Mine closures in the context of developing countries differ from that which occurs in developed countries, in that alternative socio-economic and environmental options are limited in developing countries. Nevertheless, building the foundations for sustainable local economic development is a pressing concern in developing countries requiring creativity, cooperation and leadership. As such, the role should be noticed and not overlooked. Jwaneng, Botswana has the potential to be a tourist attraction town post the mine closure with the game reserve and the mine pits being the destinations. The town also has the potential to be a district service centre. As such, the town could be economically functional even post mine closure; however, there is a need for this to be supported strongly through policy. The Government have responded by referencing mining for specific attention in policies on sustainable development, and by issuing legislation and guidelines for mining. Although mining in Botswana is; exceptionally good, excellently regulated and is a point of reference for other countries, there is a need for a more promising intervention. There needs to be an implementation process which aims to ensure promising economic stability and future not just for the locals, but for the town and country as a whole, post mine closure.
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Rodger, Sean James. "Improvement of mining efficiencies at Thamazimbi iron ore mine." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1666.
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Student Number : 9506626A -
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Faculty of Engineering and the Built EnvironmentSignificant research has been carried out over the years into what effect blast designs and techniques have on the final product in the mining process. There are numerous parameters that can be altered to deliver downstream benefits – the key is to determine which changes are appropriate for the rock body in question. A project is currently underway at Thabazimbi Iron Ore Mine (Northern Province, South Africa) to improve the operational efficiency through attention to the blasting operation. Previous research suggests changing fragmentation will have an effect on mining efficiency, but no definitive model has been developed directly linking the two. Using data collected during the project, the author developed a sensitivity analysis tool, which defines the effect of changing fragmentation on overall mine efficiency. This prediction model was based partly on theory and partly on empirical information gathered from mine databases and personnel. Over the course of this project, this model was validated through the practical implementation of the theory behind its development. This involved decreasing powder factors through increasing the drilling pattern, thus changing the resulting fragmentation of the muckpile. Subsequently, downstream effects on mining efficiency were monitored and these results were recorded in the model. The proven model was then used to identify areas of opportunity for improvement. In this report two areas are discussed, firstly, the implementation of a doped emulsion replacing ANFO across the mine, and secondly the introduction of electronic detonators. The second option would require further test work to develop confidence in the assumptions made in the model, concerning the effect of timing accuracy on fragmentation. This research report covers the background to the project, an explanation of the model and the final results obtained.
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Khenisa, Matthews Bhekuyise. "The impact of mineral extraction on local economic development of mining towns: a Marikana perspective." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23640.
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A mini-dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Management (in Public & Development Management) at the University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgThe research examines the relationship between mineral extraction and sustainable economic development of local mining communities. The research will focus specifically on Marikana within the Rustenburg Local Municipality. The research investigates the efficacy and implementation of the regulation and legislative framework relevant for the transformation of the mining industry as well as the sustainability of the local economic development. In terms of the MPRDA, mining companies are obligated to submit a social and labour plan (SLP) when applying for mining rights. The main purpose of the SLP as per the guidelines, regulation 46, is to ensure the improvement of infrastructure, poverty alleviation and community development of the host community and in the situation from which most of the labour is sourced and being addressed. The Act further prescribes that the SLP should be aligned to the municipality‟s integrated development plans (IDP). Sec 100 of the MPRDA further prescribes the development of the mining industry charter. The charter, aims at addressing the integrated sustainable LED of the host communities, the facilitation of meaningful participation of HDSA in the mining and mineral industry. This research adopts an interpretative social science approach. The design that the research took is a qualitative approach. Primary data was collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with eight interviewees. Participants consisted of two companies (mining house, Research Company), four policy experts from local and national government, two community representatives from the ward committee and the business forum. Secondary data is from the journals, academic writings, SLP and the IDP of the municipality. The results show there are challenges with compliance with SLP and the Charter prescripts from the mining houses, also there is a debate about mining houses‟ commitment in implementing sustainable LED as there is a view that they are only focused on small, economically unsustainable projects and that they reserve mega ii projects for white established businesses to the exclusion of black start-up companies. The view that the regulator is encouraging lack of accountability of the mining houses because of lack of applying punitive measures against non-performance is also gaining traction. The issue of lack of capacity of the regulator to monitor local projects was highlighted as a contributor to mining houses‟ noncompliance. Inadequate stakeholder engagement, lack of alignment of the SLP, IDP and the priorities of the community creates a challenge due to lack of buy in and ownership of LED projects implemented. The research found that there is a need to improve alignment of the IDP, SLP and the community's priorities, improve stakeholder engagement process and also to enforce the prescripts of the Act where there is lack of adherence. KEY WORDS: Local economic development, Social and labour plans, Integrated development plans
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Madzanire, Daniel. "An education strategy to reduce cultural conflict in schools administered by mines in Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21603.
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Cultural conflict is endemic in diverse societies and schools. It manifests in both subtle and overt ways, permeating the whole school environment and posing tremendous challenges for society. The purpose of this study is to devise an education strategy to reduce cultural conflict in schools administered by mines in Zimbabwe, with a particular reference to language and teacher capacity to cope with diversity in mining-town schools. This study was guided by three theoretical frameworks: Bourdieu’s capital theory, Nussbaum’s cosmopolitan education theory and unhu/ubuntu moral theory. Nine models for the reduction of cultural conflict in diversity were reviewed in order to gain insight relating to cultural conflict in mining-town schools. The qualitative research design of the study was approached from a phenomenological perspective with regard to document analysis, face-to-face and focus group interviews as well as classroom observation. Three school administrators, three SDC members, two company managers, three Grade 2 teachers and 30 Grade 6 learners were purposively selected to participate in the study. It emerged from the study that conflict was attributable to teachers with no command of language(s) spoken by the school-going population and lacked training and apititude for the task of dealing with language and cultural diversity in the classroom. It was also found that cultural conflict as described above could be reduced by establishing well-resourced language learning centres that foster essentially civilised values like respect, tolerance and dialogue. Participants also saw an ethnic match between staff and learners as significant in averting cultural conflict. The study recommended that the government should provide services that address diverse learners’ unique needs.Early Childhood Education
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Muller, Chantelle Kay. "Collective memory as an informant of consciousness in the built environment : towards a collaborative place of reconciliation for the mining community of Marikana." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/11195.
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Mining towns, like cities, are experiencing similar outcomes of rapid-urbanisation
where the opportunities that are presented by mass urbanisation and migration
(economic growth, jobs and increased social engagement) are increasingly
overshadowed by the consequences of over-urbanisation (housing shortages, slums and
failing infrastructure). These consequences, coupled with the growing gap between the
rich and the poor result in undesirable outcomes and lead to conflict, protest and
violence. As such, the majority of the South African population, while striving for a
better life, live in poorly serviced settlements on the outskirts of the city where crime,
oppression and exploitation, contribute to a growing fragmentation of the society as a
whole. These underdeveloped settlements and their working population contribute
largely to supporting the wealth of the city and generating profits for a small minority.
This is evident in the county’s mining operations where the disparity between the
mineral wealth below ground and the social condition and poverty above ground is
manifested in the failure of the social structure of the community and is responsible for
the psychological and physical condition of ‘in-betweenness’.
Halbwachs argues that culture and social framework, is presupposed by memory. As
such, the research aims to explore collective memory and its influence on social
cohesion as well as how it is manifested and mediated in the built environment. The
research is concerned with establishing a consciousness in design that values humanity
in the process and outcomes (i.e. From inception, through design development,
construction and realisation). Consciousness in the built environment suggests a
sensitive approach to social context while regenerating and revitalising new and
existing communities and simultaneously providing facilities that will contribute to a
socially and economically sustainable future in the wake of conflict and trauma. As
such it is argued that human-nature, self-interest and competition for survival, if
managed by conscience, promotes positive social advancement (Sumner, 1883).
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Keane, Stephanie. "Getting home from work: narrating settler home In British Columbia's small resource communities." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7729.
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Stories of home do more than contribute to a culture that creates multiple ways of seeing a place: they also claim that the represented people and their shared values belong in
place; that is, they claim land. Narrators of post-war B.C. resource communities create narratives that support residents’ presence although their employment, which impoverishes First Nations people and destroys ecosystems, runs counter to
contemporary national constructions of Canada as a tolerant and environmentalist community. As the first two chapters show, neither narratives of nomadic early workers nor those of contemporary town residents represent values that support contemporary
settler communities’ claims to be at home, as such stories associate resource work with opportunism, environmental damage, race- and gender-based oppression, and social chaos. Settler residents and the (essentially liberal) values that make them the best people for the land are represented instead through three groups of alternate stories, explored in Chapters 3-5: narratives of homesteading families extending the structure of a “good” colonial project through land development and trade; narratives of contemporary farmers who reject the legacy of the colonial project by participating in a sustainable local economy in harmony with local First Nations and the land; and narratives of direct supernatural connection to place, where the land uses the settler (often an artist or writer) as a medium to guide people to meet its (the land’s) needs. All three narratives reproduce the core idea that the best “work” makes the most secure claim to home, leading resource communities to define themselves in defiance of
heir industries. Authors studied include Jack Hodgins, Anne Cameron, Susan Dobbie, Patrick Lane, Gail Anderson-Dargatz,D.W. Wilson, Harold Rhenisch, M.Wylie Blanchet, Susan Juby, and Howard White.Graduate
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Harrison, Peter Carleton. "A critical analysis of how Independent Power Producers (IPP’s) can help to secure a sustainable future for post-mining towns in South Africa through new models of architectural practices, to promote the renewal of architecture as a means of creating new realities and being drivers of sustainable change." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/26514.
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Thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Architecture to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2018This thesis aims to understand the role that Independent Power Producers (IPP’s) can play in the renewal of architectural firms in creating new realities and how these firms can once again become drivers of social change. Kathu (Northern Cape), a steel mining town, is facing the reality that it will have to survive without a mining house and the community funding that results from its operations soon. There are three IPP’s within a 50km radius of Kathu. Under the current funding structure all 3 IPP’s have to contribute to socio-economic development (SED) and enterprise development (ED) within Kathu. According to the Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (IPPP’s), IPP’s are required to provide 1% of gross turnover to community funds for SED and ED development programmes. Where this funding differs from funding obtained from mining houses is that renewable energy is effectively limitless. Despite IPP’s having a projected lifespan of 20 years they will continue to be redeveloped and upgraded. These upgrades will allow for longevity of revenue, which in turn allows for sustained support for the communities surrounding them. Funding structures that are being used to disseminate mining house funds to the communities are suffering from governance issues. This means that the communities do not receive the most effective or necessary forms of development. Through a new typology of architectural practice, the way these funds are managed and utilised can create better environments for those communities. This new typology of architectural firm must move away from the corporate and profit driven nature of modern architectural firms and more towards a ‘Rural Studio’ model. This is where the primary focus is on the community and how to best serve the needs of the people. In doing so SED projects would be more effective in bringing about social change, creating new realities for communities and drivers of sustainability in post-mining towns in South Africa.
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Simões, Lasevitz Rafael. "Des grandes machines et des petites personnes : les impacts des projets miniers sur les parcours de vie des habitants de deux villes de l’Abitibi." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21691.
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