Reflections On Mountaintop Mining As Industrial Heritage

Staniscia, Stefania; Yuill, Charles

doi:10.1353/cot.2017.0002

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“…In iron-mining country, iron and iron-mining waste become the defining feature of the region -it dominates the horizons, it fills the air, it glistens in the snow, it echoes in the vestiges of mine survey camps, quarries and the abandoned power plants that supported the development of mining regions (Goin and Raymond 2001;Robertson 2006;Staniscia and Yuill 2017;Venovcevs 2020cVenovcevs , 2022Venovcevs and Williamson 2022). It even penetrates bodies to the point that humans, fish, reindeer, plants and fungi become living vectors of this perpetual spill.…”

Section: Conclusion -Heterogeneity and Excessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ambiguous Matter

Venovcevs

2022

JCA

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This paper explores mine waste that originates from resource extraction by specifically focusing on waste rock, tailings, dust and material culture from the resource extraction industry. By drawing on examples from fieldwork, archives, local media commentary and limited interviews from two iron-mining regions in Arctic Norway and sub-Arctic Canada, this paper follows mine waste as it routinely transgresses attempts to be managed. Mine waste spills out of its prescribed sinks, it oscillates between being considered waste to heritage to potentially valuable commodity, and it blurs the boundaries between spaces dedicated for mining and for non-mining. In following these trends, the paper calls for attentiveness to the ambiguous materiality of mine waste and how heterogeneity and excess circumscribe attempts at easy characterisation and management of the ubiquitous wastes that come to dominate mining regions. As such, archaeological approaches to studying mine waste can illustrate how mine waste becomes the default, lived-with condition of life in regions dominated by ongoing mining operations.

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Section: Conclusion -Heterogeneity and Excessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Venovcevs

2022

JCA

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“…Some scholars have focused their research activities on UNESCO heritage mining sites, such as coal, iron, gold and slate [62,63], and some recovery projects have been developed on various sites to allow visitors to use them [64][65][66]. In addition to asset recovery activities, strategies have also been implemented to make these sites become tourist destinations, with the creation of geo-parks, in which natural ecosystems are valued in addition to mineral assets [67,68].…”

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A UNESCO Site as a Tool to Promote Local Attractiveness: Investigating Stakeholders’ Opinions

Peira

Pasino

Bonadonna

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UNESCO World Heritage Sites are a useful tool to protect and promote the legacy human beings leave over the centuries. Ivrea, a 20th century industrial city, is the second Italian industrial site recorded in the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is a city in the North-West of Italy, historically known for the Olivetti factory, which made it world-famous by combining visionary ideals and a careful entrepreneurial policy. Our study focuses on the tourism value of the Ivrea UNESCO site and, in particular, aims at analyzing the level of integration of local stakeholders and their ability to identify guidelines for the promotion of the UNESCO site in terms of tourism. The research process was conducted with an in-depth analysis of the perception and consideration of public and private stakeholders concerning this topic. A questionnaire was prepared by a group of experts and individual interviews were conducted using the Delphi method; then, the results of the interviews were presented and the identification of priorities was carried out using the nominal group technique. Results show that the new UNESCO site in Ivrea has great potential, both in cultural terms, continuing the dissemination of Adriano Olivetti’s ideals, and in terms of tourism, because it may turn into a tourist attraction capable of generating new tourist flows and promoting the Olivetti approach.

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“…The remains of mining activity and places ruined by extraction have become re-signified as industrial and cultural heritage sites in many places around the world (Orange 2008;Peyton 2017;Rhatigan 2020;Staniscia and Yuill 2017). Their designation and management as such-especially for touristic consumption-can affect the daily lives of those who live within and adjacent to them (Sinnett and Sardo 2020;Sonter et al 2018).…”

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Lead Mining, Conservation and Heritage: Shaping a Mountain in Northeast Wales

Nuttall

2020

Humanities

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This article discusses the shaping of Halkyn Mountain, an upland common in the county of Flintshire in northeast Wales. Extractive industry has had a dramatic impact on the area, and it was one of Britain’s major lead mining regions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This extractive history is essential for understanding its contemporary character and is a key element of community identity and local heritage production. The mountain is a multilayered landscape that has been made and transformed by geomorphological and human action, by subterranean water flow, digging, burrowing and extraction, by internal rupture and the upheaval and movement of earth and rock, and by grazing, burning, clearing and churning up the surface. It continues to be shaped by management and conservation, by the lifeworlds of plants and animals, and by perspectives on what constitutes a landscape. Drawing from current anthropological research in Flintshire on the making and shaping of place, the article explores how Halkyn Mountain exemplifies the contested nature—and the contradictions and provocations—of landscape and the difficulties inherent in using, living on, defining and managing a place that has been reshaped by industry, but one that is continually coming into being. It does so through a consideration of the area as a landscape shaped and given form by lead mining, by multispecies encounters, by land management and conservation initiatives, and by how notions of heritage inform local identity and regional preservation.

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Reflections On Mountaintop Mining As Industrial Heritage

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