Catching Up with World Mining: A Model of Mining Knowledge

Kristin Ranestad
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Kristin Ranestad: University of Oslo

Chapter 3 in Knowledge-Based Growth in Natural Resource Intensive Economies, 2018, pp 81-103 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides a framework of the knowledge on which the technologically complex mining sector in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Norway was based. The nature of mining and the operational activities which characterised the three stages of mining—(1) geological mapping and ore surveys, (2) ore removal, and (3) ore processing—are examined and related to concepts with the aim of capturing different aspects of knowledge that was used. The knowledge concepts that are referred to here are natural sciences (geology, chemistry, mineralogy, metallurgy, etc.), ‘tacit knowledge’, ‘practical knowledge’, and ‘know-what’, ‘know-who’, ‘know-how’, and ‘know-why’.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96412-6_3

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