Tracing the Veins. Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata.
JANET L. FINN, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998, xviii + 309 p. This is a study of two copper mining communities - Butte, Montana and Chuquicamata, Chile - that share a common memory of the days when they were shaped by the Anaconda...

Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1920.
Donald MacMillan. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 2000. (800) 243-9900. 304 pp. $40.00 Clothbound; $18.95 Paperbound. Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1920 explores the history of air pollution by focusing on two copper mining and smelting communities in Montana. MacMillan discusses...

Our most picturesque towns.
From Bavarian village to Southwest pueblo, from copper-mining town to a slice of Scandinavia--here are the West's most picturesque towns. Thousands of readers helped us choose these towns, along with other favorite Western travel destinations, recipes, building projects, and gardening ideas. They're all part of a new 148-page publication,...

In defence of Dominica.
Until twelve months ago, few citizens of Dominica had ever heard of BHP, Australia's largest mining company and one of the world's largest copper producers. Now they fear that the company will replicate in Dominica the destruction of ecology and lifestyles caused by its Ok Tedi mine in Papua New...

Iligan ferro-nickel project, Masbate gold mine to open.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The government is anticipating the opening of an Iligan ferro-nickel project and the construction of the $ 120-million Masbate gold mine this year which will form part of some $ 500 million in mining investment in 2007. Mines and Geosciences Bureau...

P/$ rate closes at P48.93 to $ 1.
The peso rate closed higher at P48.93 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from P49.030 the previous day. The weighted average rate depreciated to P49.049 from P48.983. Total volume amounted to $ 386.1 million. FCDU deposits...

Cost, benefit and value in the organization of early European copper production.
Introduction The object of this paper is to explore the validity and usefulness of looking at the production and exchange of metal in non-western societies from the point of view of the costs and benefits they entailed. Consideration of the ideas which the paper discusses was prompted...

Mineral production rises by 48% in first 6 months.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The country's mineral production registered a 48 percent growth to P24.86 billion from January to June this year as metal prices rose to record-highs. "Copper price alone displayed an 82 percent gain from $ 1.51 per pound to $ 2.75 per...

Metal production up 8% at P29.5 B.
Byline: EDU H. LOPEZ The metallic sector posted an 8 percent growth to P29.49 billion production value last year from the P27.37 billion in 2003. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said the increase was attributed to the improved prices resulting from the...

The Onganja mining district: Namibia.
INTRODUCTION The Onganja mining district, famous among mineral collectors for some of the world's finest cuprite and malachite crystals, is situated in Namibia about 60 km northeast of the capital city of Windhoek and about 30 km north of the town of Seeis. The site is at an altitude...