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Scenic trips to the geologic past volume no. 12
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112 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago -- theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth, exploitation of workers, enormous wealth generation -- that has made...
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xix, 368 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
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English
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"Since mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. Examines both the imminent threat by energy extraction and ways of understanding Chaco Canyon--and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities"--
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370 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate...
8) Extracted: how the quest for mineral wealth is plundering the planet : a report to the Club of Rome
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xviii, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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"As we dig, drill, and excavate to unearth the planet's mineral bounty, the resources we exploit from ores, veins, seams, and wells are gradually becoming exhausted. Mineral treasures that took millions, or even billions, of years to form are now being squandered in just centuries--or sometimes just decades. Will there come a time when we actually run out of minerals? Debates already soar over how we are going to obtain energy without oil, coal, and...
9) Ghost Ranch: Central-Northern New Mexico ; twenty-fifth field conference, , Oct. 10, 11 and 12, 1974
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Guidebook volume 25
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xix, 384 pages : illustrations (2 folded in pocket), maps ; 29 cm
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English
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