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"Gold—A Monograph" by Joaquim Callén is a comprehensive and technical book that covers the origin and history of gold, gold mining, gold minerals, and variations on gold crystals, forms, and related specimen features. The book includes essays on the genesis of gold, types of gold deposits, and the use of gold throughout history. It also features a survey of major gold specimen localities around the world, as well as sections on the chemistry and mineralogy of gold. The book is well-illustrated with over 250 color photographs of gold specimens. While the technical information is good, some readers may find the organization of the book to be somewhat lacking. Overall, "Gold—A Monograph" is a valuable resource for serious mineral collectors. [Extracted from the article]

Resource extraction shapes the people who live and work in its midst. In Pongkor, Indonesia, these transformations revolve around long-running tensions between large- and small-scale gold miners. The region is home to a state-owned industrial mine as well as thousands of unlicensed, small-scale miners. These actors have competed over the same gold deposits, and who has the authority to mine them, for more than three decades. In this article, I examine how this resource conflict informs multiple, co-constitutive extractive subjectivities in Pongkor. I expand upon existing analyses of resource governance, extractive development, and environmental conflict by examining the multi-directional, interrelated processes of subject formation entailed in asserting claims to resources. Drawing on ethnographic research, I frame the situation in Pongkor as a territorial conflict with three competing subject formation processes at its core. First, the mining company has attempted to end small-scale mining by reconstituting local people as more amenable development subjects. It emphasizes particular nationalistic, economic, and moral values through both disciplinary and community development programs. Second, small-scale miners have responded by cultivating political subjectivities grounded in a collective "community miner" identity. Community miners go beyond simply participating in gold-based livelihoods; they learn to argue for rights to local resources. Third, the mining company has pursued internal reforms aimed at remaking itself and its employees. Using small-scale miners as a foil, company leaders work to reposition their operations as a model of clean and green development. In tracing these processes, I complicate narratives of industrial extractive dominance and community resistance by demonstrating that subjects inside and outside of mining operations are co-constituted. I call for further research on the shaping of varied subject positions—including corporate mining employees, small-scale miners, and local residents—involved in extractive conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In chapter 3, Canilao postulates how, if the markets used by the gold traders were temporary, they would be located on hill tops in view of the coast so that Chinese trading ships could be spotted. Remote sensing the margins of the gold trade: Ethnohistorical archaeology and GIS analysis of five gold trade networks in Luzon, Philippines, in the last millennium BP Chapter 6 discusses the transition from temporary to permanent gold markets and how the Abra River became used for transporting gold from the Cordillera to permanent market locations on the coast. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers poetry criticism of the poems of Luis Muñoz. It explores how Muñoz tells people who they are by pointing to their absences. The author provides a critical interpretation of the poem and offers different meanings behind several elements, such as self-portrait, attentiveness and beauty.

The ICSID verdict and the mining ban triggered celebrations throughout El Salvador and those parts of the world that had been inspired by the never-say-never stance of La Mesa's feisty fighters. Robin Broad and John Cavanagh have done precisely that in the case of El Salvador's historic ban of the mining of I all i metals in I The Water Defenders i . [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "California Gold," by Rodman W. Paul.

Although the book is focused on present-day mineral collectors and their collections, the first chapter is an abbreviated history of mineralogy and mineral collecting in Brazil. He notes not just minerals but also fossils, lithic objects, meteorites, and gemstones are included in the book. Cornejo's comments can be summed up by his statement (p. 6) that the book is "A paper museum showcasing the foremost pieces of Brazilian mineral collections.". [Extracted from the article]

While in Suriname, the gold concessions are often held by politicians and their relatives, the majority of those in Guyane, along the Maroni and Lawa, are owned by Aluku Maroons, and it is they who collect the 10 percent revenues from the mines. (Paper € 26.00) French geographer François-Michel Le Tourneau, a specialist on the Amazon region, has written an excellent account of illegal goldmining in Guyane (French Guiana). Two towns outside of Guyane furnish the starting points: Albina, on the Suriname side of the Marowijne/Maroni border river, and Oiapoque, on the Brazilian side of the Oyapock border river. [Extracted from the article]

Daniel Tubb's I Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia i offers a rich and detailed ethnography of the lives and shifting subsistence strategies that Afro-descendant gold miners use. Tubb shows how, despite the negative environmental effects of small-scale mining on the rivers and livelihoods of miners and their families, some of them are still waiting for the next gold rush. Tubb encountered in his research the existence of "fake mines" used to launder cash that originated in the cocaine economy, also prevalent in Chocó. [Extracted from the article]