Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession

Gerhart, Gail M.; Hart, Matthew; Carstens, Peter

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“…Northern disturbances are increasing and many have similar conditions and materials as diamond mining, such as crushed rock or sewage. Diamonds are mined in at least 15 regions worldwide, including England, Russia, Australia, India, and Africa (Hart 2001). Many will have similar environmental challenges such as limited water and large amounts of produced waste materials.…”

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Amendments and substrates to develop anthroposols for northern mine reclamation

Miller

Naeth

2017

Can. J. Soil. Sci.

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Mining and natural resource development in the Canadian north has produced large areas of disturbance and volumes of waste, necessitating reclamation. This study focused on building anthroposols in a greenhouse using waste material from Diavik Diamond Mine. There were six substrates (crushed rock, lakebed sediment, processed kimberlite, and its combinations), seven organic amendments (sewage, soil, peat, Black Earth, biochar, and its combinations), a control, and two nutrient treatments (with and without fertilizer). Substrates and amendments were mixed and seeded with three grass species. Soil properties and vegetation responses were assessed. Substrate structure was a challenge; crushed rock and processed kimberlite had little fine material and lakebed sediment was compacted. Processed kimberlite and sewage had metal concentrations (barium, chromium, cobalt, copper, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, and zinc) above guidelines. Vegetation established on all anthroposols, with plant growth and density greatest in crushed rock, followed by 25% processed kimberlite with 75% lakebed sediment and 100% lakebed sediment. Substrates amended with peat and (or) soil had the greatest plant density and belowground biomass; substrates amended with sewage and sewage-soil had greatest aboveground biomass. Fertilizer had a limited effect. With appropriate amendments, waste materials at the mine showed potential as reclamation soils.

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Amendments and substrates to develop anthroposols for northern mine reclamation

Miller

Naeth

2017

Can. J. Soil. Sci.

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“…DeBeers, for example, assembled one of the most effective vertical groups ever in the international diamond business long before the development of the Internet. DeBeers has combined significant investments in traditional information technologies with direct and indirect control over the supply chain, especially through its Diamond Trading Company, so that the actions of uncooperative producers and distributors will be immediately apparent and subject to retribution (Hart, 2001).…”

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Vertical group formation: A social process perspective

Shanley

Peteraf

2004

Manage Decis Econ

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Vertical groups are a common occurrence that is rarely studied as a group-level phenomenon. This paper brings attention to the vertical group, as a collective actor, and group formation processes. We define the vertical group and describe, in brief, why they exist. We explore the issue of how they form and the social processes under which different types of groups are likely to emerge. These include trial and error learning, social learning, and social identification. We introduce a framework that shows how variation in two more fundamental enabling conditions affects both the group development process and the characteristics of the emerging groups. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…This resulted in several failures, the first being a lack of historical accountability for past corporate practices. Sierra Leone's government called on British companies to resume mining activities, although companies had, under British rule, pushed for prohibiting the possession of diamonds by natives, underpriced Sierra Leone's diamonds, and obtained from the public purse in 1955 the current equivalent of $55 million in "compensation" for relinquishing, after twenty years, the least valuable parts of a countrywide lease (M. Hart 2001). Compensation to governments for diamonds illegally purchased from rebel groups or to victims of diamond-financed war crimes were not sought.…”

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Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource Wars

Billon

2008

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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In the late 1990s, natural resources such as oil, diamonds, and timber came under increased scrutiny by conflict analysts and media outlets for their purported role in many contemporary wars. This article discusses some of the limitations of conventional arguments linking wars and resources. Dominated by econometric approaches and rational choice theory interpretations, arguments pertaining to "resource wars" often oversimplify or overlook the geographical dimensions of resource-related conflicts. By defining spatiality primarily in terms of the location of resource reserves and flows generating revenues for belligerents, these approaches overlook other geographical aspects of resources crucial to conflicts. Focusing on "conflict diamonds" and drawing on recent international relations works and geographical research on the political ecology of violence, commodity chains, and consumption, the article presents an alternative conceptual framework engaging with resource-related spaces of vulnerability, risk, and opportunity for conflicts. This framework, in turn, highlights policy biases resulting from oversimplified readings of "resource war" geographies.

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Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession

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Amendments and substrates to develop anthroposols for northern mine reclamation

Amendments and substrates to develop anthroposols for northern mine reclamation

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