... colonialism Christianity mining development alluvial miners Porgera Gold Mine ...

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.... This chapter also traces the buildup to large-scale development of the Porgera Gold Mine that opened in 1990 and highlights that gold, guns, and the Bible remain essential elements of Porgeran identity today. colonialism Christianity mining development alluvial miners Porgera Gold Mine ...

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... This chapter examines the technologies of mega-mining used at the Yanacocha gold mine in Cajamarca. To distance their operations from the problematic legacy of environmental degradation in mining areas such as the Central Highlands, transnational corporations have sought to create a new image...

... and winds of hope that blew across the Pacific lowlands in the early 1990s. terror forced displacement oil palm gold mining ...

... a Canadian company inaugurated an open-pit gold mine in the indigenous province of San Marcos. In response, when local residents held a consulta , or referendum, in which 98 percent rejected the mine, the province became the epicenter of what is now a national movement to make (mainly) indigenous people...

... prospectors and Christian missionaries entered the valley, initiating Porgeran involvement with the outside world. This chapter also traces the buildup to large-scale development of the Porgera Gold Mine that opened in 1990 and highlights that gold, guns, and the Bible remain essential elements of Porgeran...

... systems. The chapter ends with a discussion of the agency of gold and how gold mining in particular has lent itself to perceptions of the land ending in Porgera. development resilience ontology myth environmental degradation ...