Placing resources: Junior mining companies and the locus of mineral potential
| Autor: | David Kneas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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resource potential
Resource (biology) Sociology and Political Science business.industry 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Public relations Space (commercial competition) mining Article Mining industry Scholarship resource becoming place copper Narrative Mineral potential business 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Geoforum; Journal of Physical, Human, and Regional Geosciences |
| ISSN: | 0016-7185 |
| Popis: | Ideas of resource becoming have become prominent across scholarship in resource geography over the past two decades. In this article, I link processes of becoming with those of place. Drawing on research focused on copper exploration and the junior mining sector, I describe the way resource potential is articulated through three distinct practices of placing: the placing of resource prospects within narratives of copper deficits; the placing of resource prospects in space; and the placing of resource prospects in juxtaposition to other projects. These promotional, taken-for-granted practices within the junior mining industry not only underscore the way resource potential is tied to spatial and temporal narratives, but illustrate how the locus of resource potential is found in areas beyond the underground. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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