Boom, bust, boom : a story about copper, the metal that runs the world / Bill Carter.

Author
Carter, Bill, 1966- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Scribner, 2012.
Description
ix, 274 p. ; 24 cm.

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    "Starting in his own backyard in the old mining town of Bisbee, Arizona -- where he discovers that the dirt in his garden contains double the acceptable level of arsenic -- Bill Carter follows the story of copper to the controversial Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia; to the 'ring' at the London Metal Exchange, where a select group of traders buy and sell enormous amounts of the metal; and to an Alaskan salmon run threated by mining. Boom, Bust, Boom is a highly readable account -- part social history, part mining-town exploration, and part environmental investigation. Carter blends the personal and the international in a narrative that helps us understand the paradoxical relationship we have with a substance whose necessity to civilization costs the environment and the people who mine it dearly." -- Rear jacket flap.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index.
    Contents
    • Tainted vegetables
    • Bisbee, Arizona
    • The beginnings
    • Company town
    • Cananea
    • Copper, inc.
    • The ring
    • Pebble mine
    • Which side are you on?
    • $300 billion vs. a fish
    • Superior
    • A miner's friend
    • The chairman
    • Prospector
    • Freeport-McMoRan
    • Cyanide Cynthia
    • The new Old World
    • This old town.
    ISBN
    • 9781439136447
    • 1439136440
    • 1439136580
    • 9781439136584
    LCCN
    2012289257
    OCLC
    779265865
    Other standard number
    • 40021492861
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