This paper examines United States Steel's acquisition by long-term lease of the iron ore properties of the Great Northern Railway. This 1906 transaction, which significantly increased U.S. Steel's already substantial ore holdings, has been characterized by contemporary observers and modern...

Les Panama Papers de la République Démocratique du Congo: pourquoi ce pays potentiellement riche est-il si pauvre? Dans 'Cobalt blues', le journaliste Erik Bruyland se plonge dans l'histoire postcoloniale de son pays natal, la République Démocratique du Congo. Le passé colonial belge s'est...

Introduction-A political Economic History of Guinea -- Framing Guinea: Mineral Extraction, Rent, and Stability -- Politics and Bauxite Mining Under Sekou Touré (1958-1984) -- Politics of Bauxite Mining Under Conte's regime (1984- 2008) -- A case study of the Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee...

Chapter 1: From Mining to Money in the Early Modern Atlantic: Digital Approaches and New Perspectives; Renate Pieper, Claudia Jefferies de Lozanne and Markus A. Denzel -- Chapter 2: Money in History Based on Precious Metals; Peter Bernholz -- Chapter 3: Debating Sound Money in Early Modern...

"Hailian Chen's pioneering study presents the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc--an essential base metal used to produce brass and coin and a global commodity--over the long eighteenth century. Zinc, she argues, played a far greater role in the Qing economy and in integrating China...

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining...

Extractive industry finance and mineral economics -- Cash flow modelling and financial accounting -- Strategic management -- Management of projects, markets and supplies -- Mineral deposits -- Petroleum and coal -- Resource evaluation -- Metals and energy project appraisal and finance --...

Hacia una reconfiguración de la matriz productiva provincial / Carlos Vacca, Daniel Schinelli ; colabora María Rosa Cicciari -- La actividad hidrocarburífera en la cuenca del Golfo San Jorge : el papel del empresariado regional / Mariano Prado, Marcelo Robledo -- El empleo rural en Santa Cruz...

Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west. Employing abundant...

The Portuguese head east -- The Spanish head west -- Convergence with the House of Habsburg -- The great American treasure hunts -- An unlikely bankruptcy -- Mining revolution in Spanish America -- Cash flow squeeze in the Spanish Netherlands -- Convergence in the Far East -- Unimaginable wealth...