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Placing resources: Junior mining companies and the locus of mineral potential
- Source :
- Geoforum; Journal of Physical, Human, and Regional Geosciences
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Ideas of resource becoming have become prominent across scholarship in resource geography over the past two decades. In this article, I link processes of becoming with those of place. Drawing on research focused on copper exploration and the junior mining sector, I describe the way resource potential is articulated through three distinct practices of placing: the placing of resource prospects within narratives of copper deficits; the placing of resource prospects in space; and the placing of resource prospects in juxtaposition to other projects. These promotional, taken-for-granted practices within the junior mining industry not only underscore the way resource potential is tied to spatial and temporal narratives, but illustrate how the locus of resource potential is found in areas beyond the underground.
- Subjects :
- resource potential
Resource (biology)
Sociology and Political Science
business.industry
05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
021107 urban & regional planning
02 engineering and technology
Public relations
Space (commercial competition)
mining
Article
Mining industry
Scholarship
resource becoming
place
copper
Narrative
Mineral potential
business
050703 geography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00167185
- Volume :
- 117
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geoforum; journal of physical, human, and regional geosciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e8edd06ff2846af97cb328c670ead5cc