Shifting sand, shifting livelihoods? Reflections on a coastal gold rush in Ghana

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is often characterised as rush-type activity undertaken by people looking to ‘get-rich quick’. An alternative view posits ASM as poverty-driven activity which provides a valuable source of employment to a rural population where agriculture has failed to provide an adequate income. Against this dichotomy, this article critically reviews the short-lived, but high profile, gold rush which occurred on the beaches of Elmina, a fishing town in Ghana’s Central Region. At its peak, more than 1000 people, including local fishermen and career miners from the Western Region and Eastern Region of the country, were mining on the beaches. Drawing on interviews with miners and local business owners, the analysis explores the dynamics of the rush and its implications for understanding the ASM sector in Ghana. The discussion highlights the challenges associated with managing resources in dynamic and heterogeneous contexts, reconciling separate and conflicting sectoral priorities and the need to go beyond simplified and dualistic representations of the sector.

History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 : a study of social control on the California frontier in the days of the gold rush /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 476-518) and index.

Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology?

Individual and collective efforts to mitigate climate change in the form of carbon offsetting and emissions trading schemes have recently become the focus of much media attention. In this paper we explore a subset of the UK national press coverage centered on such schemes. The articles, selected from general as well as specialized business and finance newspapers, make use of gold rush, Wild West and cowboy imagery which is rooted in deeply entrenched myths and metaphors and allows readers to make sense of very complex environmental, political, ethical, and financial issues associated with carbon mitigation. They make what appears complicated and unfamiliar, namely carbon trading and offsetting, seem less complex and more familiar. A critical discussion of this type of imagery is necessary in order to uncover and question tacit assumptions and connotations which are built into it and which might otherwise go unnoticed and unchallenged in environmental communication.

Mercury in soils and sediments from gold mining liabilities in Southern Amazonia

The 1980-1990 Amazonian gold rush left an enormous liability that increasingly has been substituted by developing fish aquaculture. This work aimed at the identification of the mercury levels in the environment, associated with fish farms located in the North of Mato Grosso State, Southern Amazon. Sediment and soil samples were analyzed for total organic carbon and total mercury. Results indicate that the chemical characteristics of the sediment largely depend on the management procedures of the fish pond (liming, fish food used and fish population). The soils presented relatively low concentrations when compared with other data from the literature.

Mercury in soils and sediments from gold mining liabilities in Southern Amazonia

The 1980-1990 Amazonian gold rush left an enormous liability that increasingly has been substituted by developing fish aquaculture. This work aimed at the identification of the mercury levels in the environment, associated with fish farms located in the North of Mato Grosso State, Southern Amazon. Sediment and soil samples were analyzed for total organic carbon and total mercury. Results indicate that the chemical characteristics of the sediment largely depend on the management procedures of the fish pond (liming, fish food used and fish population). The soils presented relatively low concentrations when compared with other data from the literature.

Geology and Ore Deposits of the Butte-Highland Gold Mine.

The Butte-Highland mine is situated at the head of Basin Creek, in the Highland mining district, Silver Bow County, about 14 miles south of Butte. The tunnel portal and present surface plant are at an elevation of about 7350 feet above sea level, facing westward across the head of Basin Creek valley. The "ghost" mining town of Highland lies a mile to the east, near the forks of Fish Creek. Access to the mine is obtained at present from Beaudine's siding, 12 miles west. The property may also be reached, with difficulty, over poor roads from Limekiln hill, or from Moose Creek.

Audubon's western journal, 1849-1850 : being the ms. record of a trip from New York to Texas : and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold fields of California /

Kurutz, G.F. California gold rush,

El niño eterno: un acercamiento mítico al personaje Charlot

Este trabajo pretende realizar un acercamiento mítico al personaje cómico Charlot a través de un análisis de los cinco largometrajes realizados por Charles Chaplin teniendo como protagonista el vagabundo: El chico (The kid, 1921), La quimera del oro (The gold rush, 1925), El circo (The circus, 1928), Luces de la ciudad (City lights, 1931) y Tiempos modernos (Modern times,1936). Buscaremos ampliar la comprensión de este personaje a través de la figura arquetípica del “niño eterno” – el puer aeternus –, y desde dos perspectivas distintas: el tiempo y el espacio. El primer capítulo trata deentender cómo las manifestaciones mágicas y sincrónicas del tiempocomponen la narrativa y el montaje de las películas; el segundo busca verificarde qué manera la paradoja nostálgica que impulsa y detiene el movimiento deCharlot organiza el espacio fílmico

Sawney's Letters, or Cariboo Rhymes 1864 to 1868

Poetry of James Anderson during his time in the Cariboo of British Columbia. He left Scotland for British Columbia during the gold rush.

Política exterior rusa en el Ártico, un juego de intereses nacionales en torno a su reivindicación geopolítica. Periodo 2007 – 2013

El objetivo de esta monografía es analizar de qué manera el interés nacional ruso determina su reivindicación geopolítica en el Ártico. Adicionalmente, se profundizará sobre la posición geográficamente privilegiada en esta región y su importancia para los países miembros del Consejo Ártico a partir del deshielo del 2007. Por otra parte, se analizará la reivindicación geopolítica rusa en el Ártico a través de la aplicación del Derecho Internacional y el desplazamiento de sus fuerzas militares en esta zona. Para resolver la investigación, es pertinente explicar el interés nacional ruso bajo la Teoría de Realismo Político de Hans Morgenthau, lo que ayudará a clasificar el modelo de política exterior que Rusia aplicó en la región Ártica durante el periodo 2007 – 2013.

Coevolución en el sector de agencias de viajes

Las teorías más recientes para el análisis de mercados imperfectos se enfocan en estudios dinámicos de las organizaciones a través del tiempo, lo que les permite determinar las evoluciones o cambios de las firmas y su ambiente. En este grupo de estudios se encuentra el de coevolución, según el cual las empresas evolucionan simultáneamente con su ambiente, pero los cambios que afrontan no son fruto de la casualidad sino que siguen una relación endógena entre estas dos entidades complejas. Utilizando la teoría de la coevolución, el presente trabajo pretende mostrar su existencia en el sector de agencias de viajes, para lo cual también se hará uso de los análisis de turbulencia y de fuerzas del mercado que permitirán encontrar los diferentes factores generadores de cambio tanto en el sector como en las empresas que lo conforman y la relación causal existente entre los mismos.

High-throughput proteomics using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionization mass spectrometry

It has become evident that the mystery of life will not be deciphered just by decoding its blueprint, the genetic code. In the life and biomedical sciences, research efforts are now shifting from pure gene analysis to the analysis of all biomolecules involved in the machinery of life. One area of these postgenomic research fields is proteomics. Although proteomics, which basically encompasses the analysis of proteins, is not a new concept, it is far from being a research field that can rely on routine and large-scale analyses. At the time the term proteomics was coined, a gold-rush mentality was created, promising vast and quick riches (i.e., solutions to the immensely complex questions of life and disease). Predictably, the reality has been quite different. The complexity of proteomes and the wide variations in the abundances and chemical properties of their constituents has rendered the use of systematic analytical approaches only partially successful, and biologically meaningful results have been slow to arrive. However, to learn more about how cells and, hence, life works, it is essential to understand the proteins and their complex interactions in their native environment. This is why proteomics will be an important part of the biomedical sciences for the foreseeable future. Therefore, any advances in providing the tools that make protein analysis a more routine and large-scale business, ideally using automated and rapid analytical procedures, are highly sought after. This review will provide some basics, thoughts and ideas on the exploitation of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionization in biological mass spectrometry - one of the most commonly used analytical tools in proteomics - for high-throughput analyses.

High-throughput proteomics using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry

It has become evident that the mystery of life will not be deciphered just by decoding its blueprint, the genetic code. In the life and biomedical sciences, research efforts are now shifting from pure gene analysis to the analysis of all biomolecules involved in the machinery of life. One area of these postgenomic research fields is proteomics. Although proteomics, which basically encompasses the analysis of proteins, is not a new concept, it is far from being a research field that can rely on routine and large-scale analyses. At the time the term proteomics was coined, a gold-rush mentality was created, promising vast and quick riches (i.e., solutions to the immensely complex questions of life and disease). Predictably, the reality has been quite different. The complexity of proteomes and the wide variations in the abundances and chemical properties of their constituents has rendered the use of systematic analytical approaches only partially successful, and biologically meaningful results have been slow to arrive. However, to learn more about how cells and, hence, life works, it is essential to understand the proteins and their complex interactions in their native environment. This is why proteomics will be an important part of the biomedical sciences for the foreseeable future. Therefore, any advances in providing the tools that make protein analysis a more routine and large-scale business, ideally using automated and rapid analytical procedures, are highly sought after. This review will provide some basics, thoughts and ideas on the exploitation of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization in biological mass spectrometry - one of the most commonly used analytical tools in proteomics - for high-throughput analyses.