This paper introduces several notions and a collection of manuscripts compiled for a special section of The Extractive Industries and Society on the temporal and spatial trajectories of mining territories. These papers were developed from presentations delivered at two international conferences held in 2018: the TRAMIN (“Socio-environmental Trajectories of Mining Territories”) conference and the Social Geology session at the RFG (“Resources for Future Generations”) conference, that took place respectively in Chambéry (France) and Vancouver (Canada). The introduction paper situates these pieces in the wider literature, exploring the connections between mineral resources and the development of societies that exploit, transform and sell them. It also argues that using a polyphonic notion such as “trajectories” allows for the adoption of an interdisciplinary approach leading to key insights on sustainability for mining territories.

本文介绍了一些概念以及为《采掘业与社会》的一个特殊部分编写的手稿的集合。关于采矿领土的时空轨迹。这些论文是根据2018年举行的两次国际会议上的演讲而编写​​的：TRAMIN（“采矿领土的社会环境轨迹”）会议和RFG（“后代资源”）会议的社会地质会议分别位于法国的尚贝里和加拿大的温哥华。引言文件将这些作品放在更广泛的文献中，探讨了矿产资源与开发，转化和出售它们的社会发展之间的联系。它还认为，使用诸如“轨迹”之类的复音概念可以采用跨学科方法，从而获得有关采矿区可持续性的关键见解。