Hear presentations that project team members and partners have given at conferences and workshops related to our field of study. Find links to video histories of some of our case study mines.
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ASEH 2009 Conference, Talahassee, FL
John Sandlos, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Orphaned Landscapes: the Legacy of Mine Abandonment in Canada's Northwest Territories." In Panel: Mining the Globe, Transforming Landscapes. ASEH 2009 Conference, Talahassee, FL.
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John Sandlos, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Download File: Orphaned Landscapes [15:15]
Arn Keeling, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Cyclonic development and landscape transformations on Northern Canada’s mining frontier." In Panel: Mining the Globe, Transforming Landscapes ASEH 2009 Conference, Talahassee, FL.
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This paper examines the historical geography of mineral development at Uranium City, Saskatchewan, to illustrate the quixotic attempts to control the human and environmental effects of what Harold Innis and others have described as “cyclonic” development. The establishment and early history of uranium mining at Uranium City illustrates how the cyclonic nature of a particular industrial staple development, and efforts to control or at least mitigate these stormy effects, were registered in the physical landscape.
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Arn Keeling, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Download File: Cyclonic development and landscape transformations on Northern Canada’s mining frontier. [20:21]
Brett Walker and Tim LeCain, Montana State University, "From Silkworms to Cattle: Environment, Technology, and Culture in High Modernist Japanese and American Copper Mining." In Panel: Mining the Globe, Transforming Landscapes. ASEH 2009 Conference, Talahassee, FL.
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Brett Walker & Tim LeCain, Montana State University
Download File: From Silkworms to Cattle [18:35]
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University, "Exhausting the Sierra Madre: Long-term trends in the environmental impacts of mining in Mexico." In Panel: Mining the Globe, Transforming Landscapes. ASEH 2009 Conference, Talahassee, FL.
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Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University
Download File: Exhausting the Sierra Madre [19:37]
Videocasts
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The Pine Point lead-zinc mine was operated from 1964 to 1988 on the south shore of Great Slave Lake in northern Canada. This film shows images of the abandoned mine from the summer of 2009, along with reflections from two Memorial University professors, John Sandlos and Arn Keeling, who are writing a history of the mine and its impact on local people.