Boom, bust, boom
Subtitle: a story about copper, the metal that runs the world
By: Bill Carter
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781439136447
Subjects: Metal trade; Environmental aspects; Copper mines and mining; Copper miners; Mineral industries; History
Description: "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 hisotry, part mining-town exploration, and part environmental investigation. Page by page, Carter blends the personal and the interanational in a narraative that helps us understand the paradoxidal relationship we have with ta substance whose cenessit to civilization costs the environment and the people who mine it dearly. The result is a first-rate journalism that fasicinates on every level" -- Rear jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253 - 260) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Tainted vegetables; title: Bisbee, Arizona; title: The beginnings; title: Company town; title: Cananea; title: Copper, inc.; title: The ring; title: Pebble mine; title: Which side are you on?; title: $300 billion vs. a fish; title: Superior; title: A miner's friend; title: The chairman; title: Prospector; title: Freeport-McMoRan; title: Cyanide Cynthia; title: The new Old World; title: This old town.