Ambiguous Matter: The Life of Mine Waste
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-mini...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/26925 2023-09-26T15:14:19+02:00 Ambiguous Matter: The Life of Mine Waste Venovcevs, Anatolijs 2022-09-20 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26925 https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.21645 eng eng Equinox Publishing Venovcevs, A. (2023). Vestiges of a Previous Industrial Age: A Contemporary Archaeology of Twentieth Century Single Industrial Mining Regions in the Far North. (Doctoral thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30461 Journal of Contemporary Archaeology Venovcevs. Ambiguous Matter: The Life of Mine Waste. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. 2022 FRIDAID 2054051 doi:10.1558/jca.21645 2051-3429 2051-3437 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26925 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed acceptedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.21645 2023-08-30T23:07:24Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Canada Norway Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 9 1 39 63 |
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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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Venovcevs, A. (2023). Vestiges of a Previous Industrial Age: A Contemporary Archaeology of Twentieth Century Single Industrial Mining Regions in the Far North. (Doctoral thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30461 Journal of Contemporary Archaeology Venovcevs. Ambiguous Matter: The Life of Mine Waste. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. 2022 FRIDAID 2054051 doi:10.1558/jca.21645 2051-3429 2051-3437 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26925 |
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