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Tele-production of miningscapes in the open-pit era: The case of low-grade copper, Bingham Canyon, US and Chuquicamata, Chile (1903–1923)
The Extractive Industries and Society ( IF 3.808 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 , DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.013
Manuel Méndez , Damir Galaz-Mandakovic , Manuel Prieto

In 1906, the Guggenheim Exploration Company (GUGGENEX), financed the low-grade copper project that Daniel Cowen Jackling had started three years earlier at Bingham Canyon (Utah, US). With GUGGENEX's investment, the exploitation of copper entered into the open-pit mining era. Nine years later, the Guggenheims applied the industrial experience acquired in Bingham Canyon in the opening of the Chuquicamata Mine (northern Chile). In both cases, all the crucial decisions about the mining were made in Manhattan, New York, while the local territories faced these projects' outcomes. From a geohistorical standpoint, and through the analysis of several archives, in this paper, we explore how the extractive territories associated with these mines were remotely produced, transformed, and redefined; becoming “teleconnected miningscapes”. We aimed to visualize how the cross-sector partnership between large economic groups—GUGGENEX—and scientific personalities was essential in the emergence of open-pit copper mining. We argue that the miningscapes produced in Bingham Canyon and Chuquicamata mines are an entanglement of scientific discourses, research (geology and metallurgy), materialities (capital and technology), human bodies (workers) and nature (copper porphyries, water, air, etc.) that were unevenly and remotely produced from the headquarters of GUGGENEX.



中文翻译:

露天时代采矿景观的远程生产:低品位铜案例,美国宾厄姆峡谷和智利丘基卡马塔(1903-1923)

1906 年,古根海姆勘探公司 (GUGGENEX) 资助了 Daniel Cowen Jackling 三年前在宾厄姆峡谷(美国犹他州)启动的低品位铜项目。在GUGGENEX的投资下,铜的开采进入了露天开采时代。九年后,古根海姆夫妇将在宾厄姆峡谷获得的工业经验应用于丘基卡马塔矿(智利北部)的开业。在这两种情况下,有关采矿的所有关键决策都是在纽约曼哈顿做出的,而当地领土则面临这些项目的结果。从地史的角度,通过对几个档案的分析,在本文中,我们探索了与这些矿山相关的采掘区是如何远程生产、改造和重新定义的;成为“远程连接的采矿景观”。我们的目标是将大型经济集团 GUGGENEX 与科学界人士之间的跨部门合作关系可视化,这对露天铜矿开采的出现至关重要。我们认为宾厄姆峡谷和丘基卡马塔矿区产生的采矿景观是科学话语、研究(地质和冶金)、物质(资本和技术)、人体(工人)和自然(铜斑岩、水、空气等)的纠缠。 ) 是从 GUGGENEX 总部不均匀和远程生产的。

更新日期:2020-11-06
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