Red Fever: Natural Resource Companies and the Global Copper Mining Frontier 1890–1939

Robrecht Declercq ()
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Robrecht Declercq: Ghent University

Chapter Chapter 8 in Commodity Frontiers and Global Capitalist Expansion, 2019, pp 215-253 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores the activities of natural resource companies in opening the commodity frontiers of copper in the USA, Central and South America and Central Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is commonly held that the main challenges for modern mining companies resided in using and implementing new mining and metallurgical technologies as to make possible the expansion of global copper mining. This chapter argues, however, that generic challenges and risks shared by most of the new commodity frontiers in copper, such as remoteness, shortage of labour and hostile environments, forced mining companies to acquire a set of new capabilities, which played a fundamental if underestimated role in corporate development of the modern mining business.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15322-9_8

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