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Boom, bust, boom : a story about copper, the metal that runs the world / Bill Carter.
Author
Carter, Bill, 1966-
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English
Εdition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Published/Created
New York : Scribner, 2012.
Description
ix, 274 pages ; 24 cm
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TN441 .C37 2012g
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Subject(s)
Copper mines and mining
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Environmental aspects
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Copper mines and mining
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History
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Copper mines and mining
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Arizona
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Copper mines and mining
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Indonesia
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Copper miners
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Mexico
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Sonora (State)
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Mineral industries
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Environmental aspects
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Metal trade
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Great Britain
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Summary note
"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.
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ISBN
9781439136447
1439136440
LCCN
2012289257
OCLC
779265865
RCP
C - S
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