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Cobalt : cradle of the demon metals, birth of a mining superpower / by Angus, Charlie,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317)."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 Toronto the mining capital of the world and given the mining industry a blueprint for resource extraction that has been exported everywhere. Charlie Angus unearths the history of the town and shows how it contributed to Canada's mining dominance. He connects the town to present-day Congo, with its cobalt production and misery, to horrendous mining practices in South America and demonstrates that global mining is as Canadian as hockey."--
Subjects: Mineral industries; Mineral industries; Cobalt mines and mining.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cobalt red : how the blood of the Congo powers our lives / by Kara, Siddharth,author.(CARDINAL)491642;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.List of acronyms -- Introduction -- "Unspeakable Richness" -- "Here it is better not to be born"/Lubumbashi and Kipushi -- The hills have secrets/ Likasi and Kambove -- Colony to the world -- "If we do not dig, we do not eat"/ Tenke Fungurume, Mutanda and Tilwezembe -- "We work in our graves"/ Kolwezi -- The final truth/ Kamilombe."An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. More than 70 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo--because we are all implicated"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Cobalt industry; Cobalt mines and mining; Miners; Human rights; Human rights.;
Available copies: 26 / Total copies: 31
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Occupational exposure to tungsten and cemented tungsten carbide / by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.(CARDINAL)142572;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Tungsten; Tungsten carbide-cobalt alloys; Industrial safety;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Summary petroleum and selected mineral statistics for 120 countries, including offshore areas / by Albers, John P.(John Patrick),1919-1986.(CARDINAL)269674; Geological Survey (U.S.)(CARDINAL)154385;
Bibliography: pages 148-149.Additional title page description: A detailed study of onshore and offshore production, reserves, resources, and exploration and exploitation activity of oil and natural gas, including imports, exports, and production of copper, nickel, manganese, and cobalt.
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade; Gas industry; Mineral industries;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Blue pigments : 5000 years of art and industry / by Delamare, François.(CARDINAL)181095;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-358) and index.Egyptian blue, the blue pigment of Mediterranean antiquity : from Egyptian hsbd̲ iryt to Roman caeruleum -- Zaffre, smalt, bleu d'esmail and azure : tribulations of Saxon cobalt -- Natural ultramarine : the essence of blue pigment -- German azurite and English blue verditer : favourite pigments of European painters -- Prussian blue : an unexpected destiny -- The discovery of Thenard's (cobalt) blue : a time for scientists -- Guimet blue and artificial ultramarines : the dream comes true -- Copper phthalocyanines : a chance happily exploited -- The rediscovery of Egyptian blue -- The rediscovery of Han blue -- The rediscovery of yax, the Maya blue.
Subjects: Blue; Blue in art; Powders; Pigments; Color;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A riddle in Ruby / by Davis, Kent,1970-author.(CARDINAL)410906;
"In an era called The Chemystral Age, magically augmented alchemy and chemistry have thrust an alternate version of eighteenth-century colonial America forward into industrialization. Thirteen-year-old Ruby is a smuggler's daughter and picklock prodigy, and she and her mostly faithful servant, Cram, navigate a world filled with cobalt gearbeasts, alchemical automatons, and devilish secret societies"--740LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Alchemy; Fantasy;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Mother nature / by Curtis, Jamie Lee,1958-author.(CARDINAL)348280; Goldman, Russell,author.(CARDINAL)874885; Stevens, Karl,1978-author,artist.(CARDINAL)552241;
After witnessing her engineer father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation's experimental oil extraction projects, Nova Terrell has grown up to hate the seemingly benevolent company that the town of Catch Creek, New Mexico, relies on for its livelihood and, thanks to the "Mother Nature" project, its clean water. Haunted by her father's death, the rebellious Nova wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism on the oil giant's facilities and equipment, until one night she accidentally makes a terrifying discovery about the true nature of the "Mother Nature" project and the malevolent, long-dormant horror it has awakened, and that threatens to destroy them all.
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Graphic novels.; Horror comics.; Paranormal comics.; Fathers; Petroleum industry and trade; Sabotage; Vandalism; Fathers.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Power metal : the race for the resources that will shape the future / by Beiser, Vince,1965-author.(CARDINAL)417519;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-245) and index.Introduction: There's no such thing as clean energy -- The electro-digital age -- Part one: Elements of the future. The elemental superpower -- The global treasure hunt -- Killing for copper -- Holding power -- The endangered desert -- Depth charge -- Part two: The reverse supply chain. Mining the concrete -- High-tech trash -- Part three: Better than recycling. New lives for old things -- The road forward -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."How the metals we need to power technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and murder-and how we can do better. An Australian multimillionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Garbage pickers in Nigeria risking their lives to salvage e-waste amid nightmarish pollution. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing artificial intelligence to find metals in the Arctic. Train-robbing copper thieves in Chile. These are some of the people in the intensifying global competition to locate and extract the minerals essential for two critical technologies that will shape humanity's future: the internet and renewable energy. It's a race that will create new industries, generate enormous wealth, and destabilize the global balance of power. It could propel us to a more sustainable future--or plunge us into an environmental nightmare. In Power Metal, journalist and author Vince Beiser explores the Achilles' heel of green power and digital technology: that the manufacturing of our computers, cell phones, electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines requires enormous amounts of increasingly rare materials--lithium, cobalt, copper, and others--the demand for which is skyrocketing. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to witness this race, reporting on the damage it is already inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and the ways in which we can minimize that damage. The result is a book that is both a gripping read and a sobering account of the battle between what civilization demands and what the planet can withstand. Power Metal is a compelling and important glimpse into this new, disturbing, and exciting world"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Mines and mineral resources; Mineral industries; Strategic materials; Sustainable development; Rare earth metals;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 17
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