“Rushing, Reckless Life of a True Mining Town”:

2021 ◽  
pp. 130-141
Keyword(s):  
Mining Town

Schools of Empiricism

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-289
Author(s):  
Andreas Friedolin Lingg
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Scientific Observation ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Abstract Recent research emphasizes that empiricist approaches already emerged long before the seventeenth and eighteenth century. While many of these contributions focus on specific professions, it is the aim of this article to supplement this discourse by describing certain social spaces that fostered empiricist attitudes. A particularly interesting example in this respect is the mining region of the Erzgebirge (Saxony) in the fifteenth and sixteenth century. The following article will use this mining district as a kind of historical laboratory, as a space not only for scientific observation but also as a structure within which specific forms of knowledge were socially tested, to show how the economic transformation of this region supported the rise of characteristic elements of empiricist thinking. It is common practice to link the appraisal of useful knowledge, (personal) experience and the distrust towards (scholastic) authorities in those days with only small minorities. By addressing not only the struggles of the commercial elites but also the challenges faced by the average resident of a mining town, this paper tries to add to this view by demonstrating how entire masses of people inhabiting the late medieval Erzgebirge were affected by and schooled to think in empiricist ways.

Heavy metals in dusts from commercial and residential areas of Jharia coal mining town

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. K. Rout ◽  
R. Ebhin Masto ◽  
P. K. Padhy ◽  
L. C. Ram ◽  
Joshy George ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Jharia Coal

The Stockpile Thesis and Industrial Relations at Kambalda

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-366
Author(s):  
Helen Lang
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Nickel Mining ◽  
Industrial Disputes ◽  
Strategic Variable ◽  
Consensual Approach

Some recent work on industrial relations in the Australian minirtg industry has focused on a close relationship between the incidence of strikes and the stockpiling of the mineral mined. It is argued that when demand for a mineral falls and the stockpile grows, management can afford the disruption to production caused by strikes. Hence management will take action to provoke strikes by introducing changes in work practices it knows will be opposed by unionists. Not only are the unions more likely to be defeated, but the company concerned is also able to reduce the size of its stockpile of ore. A case-study of the nickel-mining centre of Kambalda in Western Australia suggests that the size of the stockpile isfar less relevant when management and unions have a consensual approach to industrial relations. The stockpile is a strategic variable rather than a cause of industrial disputes. Whether the stockpile is manipulated as part of management's strategy will depend on innumerable, interdependent factors, including the organization of social life in a mining town and whether effective co operative relations develop between managers and unions.

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925.

1990 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 318
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Meagher ◽  
David M. Emmons
Keyword(s):  
Mining Town

scholarly journals Borehole Rehabilitation: A Case Study in the Dunkwa Mining Town

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
A. Ewusi ◽  
J. Seidu
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Central Region ◽  
Pumping Test ◽  
Implementation Cost ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Borehole Camera ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Very High

Rehabilitation works were carried out on boreholes in the Dunkwa Mining town in the Central Region of Ghana. These works were carried out because the boreholes had lost their original yields due to clogging, corrosion and encrustation and had been abandoned for a long time. The cost of drilling a new well and assessing the productivity of the well is $4,500 which is more expensive that carrying out rehabilitation works which is cheaper, about $800. Also, the initial yields of the boreholes were very high according to the feasibility report which is not a common characteristic of the rocks in the area. Camera inspection followed by rehabilitation, pre and post pumping tests were carried out to assess whether there has been an improvement in their yield after the exercise and that the yield obtained will be adequate for a water supply design. Results show that all the boreholes had an improvement in their yields (57.19 - 259.80 %) after the rehabilitation. It can therefore be concluded that rehabilitation is effective in restoring boreholes to their original yields. Organisations drilling boreholes to communities can take advantage of rehabilitation of the existing boreholes located in the communities which are high yielding, thereby reducing project implementation cost. Keywords: Borehole Rehabilitation, Borehole Yields, Borehole Camera Inspection, Pumping Test

scholarly journals Ego-récits de l’intégration : deux itinéraires de déportés au Kazakhstan soviétique

Slovo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol The autobiographical... (Beyond the steppes of Central...) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Ohayon
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
House Arrest ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The City ◽  
Groupes Ethniques ◽  
Seconde Guerre Mondiale

International audience Two men, deported in Kazakhstan during the World War II, recount their respective experiences. Despite the great difficulties they encountered – detentionin gulag, house arrest, administrative stigmatization, precarious material conditions of life- they report the story of their successful integration in the city of Karaganda. These two itineraries are providing a grassroots understanding of the articulation between diverse ethnic groups and banned people, which make up a specific soviet society in this mining town of Central Asia. Deux hommes, déportés au Kazakhstan durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, rapportent leur expérience respective. En dépit des grandes difficultés qu’ils rencontrent – détention au Goulag, assignation à résidence, stigmatisation administrative, conditions matérielles précaires – ils racontent l’histoire de leur intégration réussie dans la ville de Karaganda. Ces deux itinéraires donnent à voir comment s’agence, dans une ville minière d’Asie centrale, une société soviétique particulière, composée de proscrits et de groupes ethniques différents. Двое мужчин, депортированные в Казахстан во время второй мировой войны, рассказывают о своем жизненном опыте. Несмотря на тяжелые моменты, которые они пережили - заключение в лагере, административная ссылка, политическая стигматизация, небезопасные условия жизни- они оба поведают о том, как они успешно устроились в городе Караганда, найдя свое место в обществе. Эти две траектории свидетельствуют о том, как в таком шахтовом городе как Караганда, сформировался некий советский социум, составленный из разнообразных изгнанников сталинского времени и приезжавших этнических групп.

scholarly journals Heavy Metal Contamination of Well Water in the Kipushi Mining Town (Democratic Republic of Congo)

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bamba Bukengu Muhaya ◽  
Rachel Mulunda Numbi ◽  
Francois Toto Lubala ◽  
Joel Bacirheba Mugisho ◽  
Dieudonne Kabumana Tshibanda
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Metal Contamination ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Well Water ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Mining Town

Mining off the Map: Fulongchang and Silver Mines in the Qing Empire’s Far Southwest

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-301
Author(s):  
Nanny Kim ◽  
Yang Yuda
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Qing Government

Abstract A donation stele discovered in the 1980 records that the community of the Fulong silver mines raised some 4500 liang of silver to build a temple dedicated to the God of Wealth in 1814. The site in a remote mountain range in northern Yunnan evidently was a prosperous and populous mining town. Yet it appears in no government record. Centered on the case study, this paper provides insights into social self-organization of communities and the structures within the Qing government that allowed the operation of mines that were registered with the local governments and submitted taxes yet kept out of the communications with the central government. The analysis contributes a specific example of communal governance structures and explains the two layers in late imperial administration, one which was official and documented in gazetteers and central records, and another which was customary and usually undocumented.

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