The impact of metals on society part VI: The new world

From: JOM | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Editors Note: One of 15 parts, this article and the installments that follow revisit the historical record and reference figures of the past to show how mining, minerals, and metals have profoundly influenced conflict, religion, technology, economics, and mass migration on both macro- and microscales. The papers were prepared exclusively for JOM based on a keynote lecture delivered by the author to the International Symposium on Mining, which was held September 1997 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

INTRODUCTION

The major news of 1492 in Spain was the surrender of the Moors at Granada in January. The ...

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