Rocks and Hard Places: The Globalization of Mining

Why mining matters extractive empires - the world of modern mining how the World Bank got behind the big corporations cursed by resources - when minerals aren't a blessing smallscale mining - a real alternative? the digging fields - the environmental record after the mine is over - what to do? divide, rule, legislate and suppress - corporate strategies riding shotgun - corporations coping with community opposition hard places - the human impact of modern mining disuniting the workers - companies head to head with the miners fighting back - indigenous and NGO resistance what basis for mining in future?. Annex: who is doing what, where.