Mining
A superb overview of mining in the Spanish American colonies by a historian who has written perceptively on both Mexico and Peru, the two centers of Hispanic American mining activity.
Philippines: gold mining and Indigenous Peoples in the …
The indigenous Ibaloy and Kankanaey Igorots of Itogon have engaged in mining and trading of gold since the 10th century. Historical accounts say that the Igorots developed effective mining and processing methods to produce gold, which they traded for salt, livestock, Chinese pottery, cloth, blankets and cattle from the lowland areas."
(PDF) History of the Philippine Mining Industry-A Political …
In this paper, I present a historical overview of the Philippine mining industry in light of the global and local economic trends since 1965-the rise of the state-led mining regime under the...
Colonial extractivism and development: The state and
In this paper we investigate the specific mechanisms of British financial influence in the Cape Colony during the diamond mining boom of the late nineteenth century.
Mining, Colonial Legacies, and Neoliberalism: A Political …
We use a "political ecology of knowledge" framework to situate CIRDI in the context of neoliberal capitalism, neocolonial sustainable development discourses, and mining industry corporate social responsibility techniques.
(PDF) A History of Mining in Latin America: From the …
Silver amalgamation technologies revolutionized the production of precious metals in the colonial Andes and throughout Latin America, changing the region and the global economy in ways that are almost impossible to fully comprehend even today.
Mining in the Philippines: Of Disasters and Regulatory Failures
Even before colonizers stepped foot in the Philippines, Filipinos had been mining precious metals for trade and for show. The presence of copper, silver, and gold in the Philippine mountains was one of the reasons the Spaniards occupied the country, according to historians.
Economic Factors and Stratification in Colonial Spanish America …
Whereas a mining economy based on placers tended to preserve encomendero status, the Chilean historian claims, a rural-based economy would soon produce an aristocracy for which encomienda possession no longer had decisive importance.
Project MUSE
The long colonial period, analyzed in chapters 1 through 4, begins in 1514, with gold production in the Caribbean, and silver production, in 1545, at the extremely rich Potosí mine, which is located in present-day Bolivia.
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The accumulated gold of centuries was looted during the two decades, 1520–40, which saw the Spanish military conquest of Middle and South America. Thereafter, though gold was mined in varying and often substantial amounts, silver predominated in both volume and value produced.