This paper is about understanding the cycle of global copper price booms and busts over Zambia's economic history. We … explore how the mining industry has been managed, and wider economic management during boom periods. We find that successive … ringfence and prudently use the mineral revenues from copper mining in building productive capacities remains elusive. Instead …

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining … Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first … Mexico's mining districts. Studnicki-Gizbert demonstrates how this serial reanimation of a non-renewable resource was …