Title:
Boom, bust, boom : a story about copper, the metal that runs the world
Format:
Books
Author:
Publication Date(s):
2012
ISBN:
9781439136447
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publication Information:
New York: Scribner, 2012.
Physical Description:
ix, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
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