California’s Golden Road to Riches: Natural Resources and Regional Capitalism, 1848 – 1940

Walker, Richard

doi:10.1111/0004-5608.00238

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“…Working California's large-scale commodity agricultural land holdings has always fallen to a lowwage, devalued, racialized labor force (Walker, 2001). In his essay "In the Strawberry Fields," Eric Schlosser, citing historian Cletus E. Daniel, describes how California has historically been in "search for a peasantry" (p. 15).…”

Section: Working the Land: Contours Of California Farm Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

After the Incubator: Factors Impeding Land Access Along the Path from Farmworker to Proprietor

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Master

2016

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Section: Working the Land: Contours Of California Farm Labormentioning

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After the Incubator: Factors Impeding Land Access Along the Path from Farmworker to Proprietor

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“…San Francisco served as the main supply base for the Californian gold rush, transforming it from a remote outpost of a few hundred people in 1848 to a burgeoning town of 50,000 by 1853 (Brands 2002). It grew into a major metropolis as resource extraction and commerce generated large concentrations of capital, becoming the second largest financial centre in the US by the early twentieth century (Walker 2001). In contrast to specialised mining towns, metropolitan centres like San Francisco developed a greater financial and entrepreneurial capacity, which enabled them to grow as vital nodes for the co-ordination and control of successive waves of capital accumulation.…”

Section: Origins and Growth Of Mining Settlements As Urban Localitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eureka and beyond: mining's impact on African urbanisation

Bryceson

MacKinnon

2012

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

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This collection brings separate literatures on mining and urbanisation together at a time when both artisanal and large-scale mining are expanding in many African economies. While much has been written about contestation over land and mineral rights, the impact of mining on settlement, notably its catalytic and fluctuating effects on migration and urban growth, has been largely ignored. African nation-states' urbanisation trends have shown considerable variation over the past half century. The current surge in 'new' mining countries and the slow-down in 'old' mining countries are generating some remarkable settlement patterns and welfare outcomes. Presently, the African continent is a laboratory of national mining experiences. This special issue on African mining and urbanisation encompasses a wide crosssection of country case studies: beginning with the historical experiences of mining in Southern Africa (South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe), followed by more recent mineralizing trends in comparatively new mineral-producing countries (Tanzania) and an established West African gold producer (Ghana), before turning to the influence of conflict minerals (Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone).Keywords: urban, mining, Africa, growth, settlement, migrationThe upsurge of mining currently restructuring many national economies in Africa is raising important questions about priorities in natural resource utilisation and the distribution of present and future mining wealth in the countries concerned. Rarely, however, does one read or hear discussion about mining's links with urban growth and settlement patterns and the welfare and indeed rural-cum-urban lifestyle changes involved in people's migration to mining sites. This may be related to the fact that few commentators have expertise or detailed knowledge of both mining and urbanisation. So too, in the mining sites, migration and settlement patterns have a way of changing day by day so unobtrusively that residents take little cognisance of the role they are playing in urban transformation.The demographic and economic changes related to mining over the 20 th century have largely been ignored. Instead, Southern Africa's large-scale mining complexes dominated the literature, with their racially segregated housing and attempts to constrict African urbanisation through a bachelor wage and oscillating migration between miners' rural homes and mine sites. Less controlled, but subject to threats of violence and intimidation, the production of 'conflict minerals' associated with the financing of civil war over the last few decades has generally relied on both coerced and tribute labour, sometimes imported from neighbouring countries, while local people have fled, making their way to the safety of more densely settled urban areas. Racially segregated urbanisation is now history, while conflict mineral exploitation -with its attendant rural-urban displacement -has ended in Sierra Leone and Angola, though it persists in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). By the...

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“…Although introducing a level of uncertainty, this assumption is considered valid as *85% of the total gold production from the Sierra Nevada Foothills Metamorphic Belt occurred pre-1932. Post-1932 mining economics dictated that the majority of the remaining 15% of total gold production was sourced from larger operations, for which complete production records exist, thereby further reducing uncertainty (Walker 2001).…”

Section: Construction Of a Gis Framework For The Sierra Nevada Foothimentioning

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“…The region has yielded 44000 t Au from lode and placer deposits, making it one of the world's premier gold provinces (Lindgren 1895;Knopf 1929;Clark 1992;Bö hlke 1999;Walker 2001). Yet, when compared with analogous gold provinces elsewhere, the Californian gold ores remain relatively poorly documented.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Controls on mineralisation in the Sierra Foothills gold province, central California, USA: a GIS-based reconnaissance prospectivity analysis

Bierlein

Northover

Groves

et al. 2008

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

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The assessment of spatial relationships between the location, abundance and size of orogenic-gold deposits in the highly endowed Sierra Foothills gold province in California, via the combination of field studies and a GIS-based analysis, illustrates the power of such an approach to the characterisation of important parameters of mineral systems, and the prediction of districts likely to host economic mineralisation. Regional-to deposit-scale reconnaissance mapping suggests that deposition of goldbearing quartz veins occurred in second-and third-order, east-over-west thrusts during regional eastwest compression and right-lateral transpression. At the district-scale, significant zones of mineralisation correspond with such transpressional reactivation zones and dilational jogs that developed during the Late Jurassic -Early Cretaceous along the misaligned segments of first-order faults throughout the Sierra Nevada Foothills Metamorphic Belt. Field-based observations and interpretation of GIS data (including solid geology, structural elements, deposit locations, magnetics, gravity) also highlight the importance of structural permeability contrasts, rheological gradients, and variations in fault orientation for localising mineralisation. Although this approach confirms empirical findings and produces promising results at the province scale, enhanced geological, structural, geophysical and geochronological data density is required to generate regionally consistent, high-quality input layers that improve predictive targeting at the goldfield to deposit-scale.

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California’s Golden Road to Riches: Natural Resources and Regional Capitalism, 1848 – 1940

Cited by 74 publications

References 30 publications

After the Incubator: Factors Impeding Land Access Along the Path from Farmworker to Proprietor

After the Incubator: Factors Impeding Land Access Along the Path from Farmworker to Proprietor

Eureka and beyond: mining's impact on African urbanisation

Controls on mineralisation in the Sierra Foothills gold province, central California, USA: a GIS-based reconnaissance prospectivity analysis

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