La Société « Le Nickel », de sa fondation à la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale, 1880-1945

Newbury, Colin

doi:10.3406/jso.1955.1847

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“…Nickel was discovered early in the colonial period with exports starting in 1874, setting the direction of New Caledonia's economic and political life to the present day. The mining industry is dominated by three large companies that operate their own refineries: Société Le Nickel (SLN), founded in 1880 (Newbury 1955) and now a subsidiary of the French mining and metallurgical multinational group Eramet; Goro‐Nickel, until 2020 Vale New Caledonia SAS (Vale NC), a subsidiary of the Brazilian energy and mining group Vale SA; and Koniambo Nickel SAS (KNS) operated by the Société Minière du Pacifique Sud (SMSP), owned by the pro‐independence North Province, and the Anglo‐Swiss Glencore. Some 20 or more second line and independent companies, which are only engaged in extraction and do not do their own refining, operate across the territory and are known as ‘small miners’ ( petits mineurs ) – even though some are themselves well capitalized, hold large concessions, and directly export nickel (Bouard et al 2018; Demmer 2017a).…”

Section: Decolonization and Sovereign Pluralism In New Caledoniamentioning

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Mining and Competing Sovereignties in New Caledonia

Meur

Levacher

2022

Oceania

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Mining, especially nickel mining, has a long history in New Caledonia and cannot be separated from the trajectory of this territory as a settler colony. However, the construction of mining as a political stake and resource in the New Caledonian public arenas has come surprisingly late, only emerging explicitly in the 1990s as pro‐independence parties pushed the issue to the fore in their negotiations with the French state and anti‐independence parties. Nickel mining and processing became part of the claim for sovereignty in the form of a ‘resource nationalism’ discourse. This paper discusses the multi‐layered nature of sovereignty through the theoretical propositions of Richard Joyce on ‘competing sovereignties’ (2013) to illustrate both the complexities of a decolonization situation that has lasted for 20 years and the challenges posed to sovereignty by mining.

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Section: Decolonization and Sovereign Pluralism In New Caledoniamentioning

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Mining and Competing Sovereignties in New Caledonia

Meur

Levacher

2022

Oceania

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“…Today mining is carried out, in the first place, by three large companies that operate their own refineries. The first is Société Le Nickel (SLN), founded in 1880, from time to time partly state-owned, and now majority-owned by the French multinational group Eramet (see Newbury 1955;Bencivengo 2014;Black 2014). SLN's Doniambo nickel refinery on the outskirts of Nouméa has operated since 1910.…”

Section: A Short History Of Mining In New Caledoniamentioning

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The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects

Oppermann

2022

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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He has been studying the social impacts of large-scale resource extraction in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. He has written widely on the social and political effects of extractive capitalism in Melanesia and is the author of The Lihir Destiny: Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia (2010) and editor (with McDougall, Alexeyeff and Cox) of Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific (2021), both published by ANU Press.

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Section: A Short History Of Mining In New Caledoniamentioning

confidence: 99%