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"The buck stops here”: State and community hold a clay mine accountable for environmental harm in South Africa “责任止于此”：国家和社区要求一个粘土矿对南非的环境危害负责

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101722

C.M. Dzerefos , T. Matlou

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Contested futures: Media, social cohesion, and the Kaunisvaara mine in Swedish public discourse 2006-2024 有争议的未来：媒体、社会凝聚力和瑞典公共话语中的Kaunisvaara矿2006-2024

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101721

Peter Waara

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Gaps and limitations in public access to environmental information in mining licensing 公众获得采矿许可证方面环境信息的差距和限制

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101711

Iria Buxán Raposo , Urbano Fra Paleo

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Reframing small-scale gold mining cooperatives: Evidence from Brazilian Amazon 重构小型金矿开采合作社：来自巴西亚马逊地区的证据

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101728

Carlos Henrique Xavier Araujo, Giorgio De Tomi

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Digitalization in mining and the rise of the urban miner 矿业数字化与城市矿工的崛起

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101718

Keith Storey

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What makes minerals critical? Problematizing sovereignty in times of crisis 矿物质为何如此重要？在危机时期将主权问题化

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101720

Brice Laurent, Guillaume Louvet, Roman Solé-Pomies, Alexandre Violle

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The slow rejection of mercury in Yukon’s small-scale gold mining industry 育空地区小规模金矿开采行业对汞的缓慢排斥

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101726

C.L. Johnson , K.R. Moore , D. Johnson

{"title":"The slow rejection of mercury in Yukon’s small-scale gold mining industry","authors":"C.L. Johnson , K.R. Moore , D. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mercury technologies in small-scale gold mining (SSM) operations have been slowly rejected in Yukon, Canada. We analyse fieldwork data collected over 4.5 months between 2020–2023 from 32 semi-structured interviews, 20 placer mine visits, and participatory observation notes. Using diffusion of Innovation theory (DoI) we identify prior conditions (i-iv) required to escalate the rejection of mercury as a processing technology more widely. Data relevant to the slow rejection of mercury technologies were thematically coded around technological, governmental and societal shifts. We find that the (i) previous practice involving mercury technologies shifted through time in response to (ii) felt needs/problems (initially technological but later including health, environment, and community needs/problems). The shifts were addressed by the (iii) innovativeness of the community; enabled through formalization channels and possibly by access to resources such as electricity. Eventually mercury-centred practice was eclipsed by chemical free processes which led to the evolution of new (iv) norms of a social system. Globally, where artisanal scale mining (ASM) and SSM industries continue to be reliant on mercury, consideration of prior conditions could help identify context-specific opportunities for mercury mitigation and draw attention to the need for mercury recycling programs to redress legacy mercury.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 101726"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144535755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The influence of environmental policies on mineral permitting in Europe: Challenges and insights from Spain and Sweden 环境政策对欧洲矿产许可的影响：来自西班牙和瑞典的挑战和见解

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101727

Stefanie Streit, Marinella Passarella, Michael Tost

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U.S. shale energy production and impacts on house values: a basin-by-basin review 美国页岩能源生产及其对房屋价值的影响：逐个盆地的回顾

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101725

John Dunn, Siew Hoon Lim

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The relaunching of industrial policy in Brazil: What have rare earths got to do with it? 巴西产业政策的重新启动：稀土与之有何关系？

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101723

Manuel Mindreau

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