One of the features of mining is that it occurs mostly in places so remote from our increasingly urban landscapes as to be almost unimaginable. Massive operations blast and dig through bedrock the world over, from the mountainous, steaming jungles of New Guinea and the briny flats of South America to the frozen reaches of eastern…
Virginia Heffernan
Virginia Heffernan recently published Ring of Fire: High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness.