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Title Boom, bust, boom : a story about copper, the metal that runs the world / Bill Carter.
Author Carter, Bill, 1966-
Publisher New York : Scribner, 2012.
Description ix, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
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 HM-Main Level  553.43 CAR Nearby on shelf  31248007316225 09-21-19  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Summary "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, Bus, 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.
Subject Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects.
Copper mines and mining -- History.
Copper mines and mining -- Arizona.
Copper mines and mining -- Indonesia.
Copper miners -- Mexico -- Sonora (State)
Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects.
Metal trade -- Great Britain.
ISBN 9781439136447
1439136440
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