1. The AT Reader
   Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1985
   An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
2. Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Schilis-Gallego discusses Australian mining companies' involvement in violence and human rights violations in Africa.
3. Bennett Jones LLP
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. The Big Nickel
   Inco at home and abroad
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   An account of the economic power of the world's largest producer of nickel, how it operates in Canada and the Third World, and its human consequences. The Big Nickel also looks at the resistance to the corporation, and the union-busting, attacks by company goons, and successful organizing drives.
5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
9. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
   Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1969
   The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
10. The City in History
    Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
11. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
12. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
13. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
16. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
17. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
18. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
19. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
20. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
22. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    
23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
24. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
25. The Coral Battleground
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    A fight for the preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, located in the coast of Queensland. In the late 1960s the reef began to be threatened with limestone mining and oil drilling.
26. Cracked Houses in San Miguel Ixtahuacan: The Marlin Mine Influence
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Today in Guatemala City, COPAE and UUSC present the results of an investigation, after two years of monitoring by a team of engineers: 'Cracked Houses Around the Marlin Mine: Preliminary Investig
27. Greg Crowe, Mining and Commodities Expert
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
28. The Devil Operation
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
29. Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linked
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.
30. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences
    Resource Type: Book
    
31. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
32. Fatal Extraction
    Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2015
    Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldn’t be tolerated in better-regulated nations. The stories are from people across Africa, and are rarely heard outside their communities.
33. Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
    Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2015
    A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
34. Don Fenton
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
35. Fresh Water Seas
    Saving the Great Lakes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
36. The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
37. Goodmans LLP
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
38. The Hillcrest Mine Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    The worst coal mining disaster in Canada occurred in Hillcrest, Alberta, on Friday June 19, 1914. A total of 189 men died. 130 women were widowed and 400 children left fatherless.
39. Intag's Recurrent Nightmare: Adding Up The Costs Of Ecuador's Mineral Wars
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Intag is situated in Northwestern Ecuador. In the 1990s Bishimetal, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, found evidence of a large copper deposit lying in the bowels of the biodiverse Toisan Range. In 1997 it was forced to abandon the project. In 2012 CODELCO, Ecuador’s state-owned mining company moved to revive the project as part of a government to government agreement. The nightmare returns.
40. Investigation Reveals 'Environmental Ruin' And Workers Rights Abuses
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Broken promises to impoverished communities, serious environmental concerns and poor health and safety records linked to Australian mining companies have all been revealed by Africa’s largest ever collaborative journalistic investigation.
41. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
42. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
43. Mapoon - Book Three
    The Cape York Aluminum Companies (Alcan, Comalco, R.T.Z., Kaiser, C.R.A., Billiton, Pechiney, Tipperary) and the Native Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Chronicle of the policies and actions of the Aluminium Companies with respect to the native peoples and their land claims.
44. Miners and Steelworkers
    Labour in Cape Breton
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
45. Minetown, Milltown, Railtown
    Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    A sociological description of life in company towns.
46. The Mining Association of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
47. Mining History Written in Blood
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
48. Mining Peru
    Canada's New Territory?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
49. Mining & Petroleum Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to mining and petroleum in the Sources directory for the media.
50. Mining Town Crisis
    Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
51. MiningWatch Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
52. More Incredible than Fiction
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    The story of the St. Lawrence community recounts the working past of a small Newfoundland coastal town.
53. Mortgaging the Earth
    The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Rich provides a history of the bank particularly between 1968 and 1981 with respect to a lack of accountability and increased pressure to lend.
54. My Past is Now
    Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer
    Resource Type: Book
    This account begins with Stanton's childhood, leading to cases such as his defence of Fergus McKean, and a Cold War libel suit in BC.
55. On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
56. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
57. Peace Out
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
58. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
59. Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaper
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned newspaper.
60. Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland.
61. Price of Gold
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened.
62. A Report on Noranda Mines Limited
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1981
    A Report on Noranda Mines Limited for the Counseil Regional d'Amenagement du Nord de Noveau Brunswick (C.R.A.N.) traces the history of Noranda Mines in Canada and particularly in the province of New Brunswick.
63. A Report On Noranda Mines Limited.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1982
    
64. Rescue Capsule used at the San Jose Chilean mine
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The Canada Science and Technology Museum invites members of the media to a preview of the Rescue Capsule used at the rescue of thirty-three miners at the San Jose Mine in Copiap, Chile.
65. Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed
    Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.
66. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
67. SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
68. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
    Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
    
69. Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
70. Sources welcomes Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Canada's leading boutique Corporate Finance firm, Wildeboer Dellelce strives to be the premiere transactional law firm in Canada for emerging companies and deal makers
    
71. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
72. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
73. Technics and Civilization
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1963
    A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
74. Two Miners
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1971
    
75. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
76. A Very Ordinary Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    The story of one woman's life in the context of a dazzling and brutal century, encompassing the rise of fascism, the great depression, emigration, war, and above all, a likfe of work -- in mining and logging camps, in factories, on the farm.
77. Where Heaven Meets Hell
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
78. Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
79. Women Organizing for Change
    Confronting the Crisis in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A series of articles which seek to examine the effects of recent profound economic, social and political crises of the part several years, particularly the effects of the crisis on the lives of women in the region.

Experts on Mining in the Sources Directory

1. World Bank