Nickel Mining Industry Research Articles

Anticipatory Testimonies: Environmental Disaster in Claudine Jacques's Fictional Prophecies

In Caledonian author Claudine Jacques's 2002 novel L'Âge du perroquet-banane, Parabole paienne, a tribal elder warns a man elsewhere: our country, if you remove a taboo bone, you disrupt the sea, if you touch it without respect you invite a cyclone, if you toss the bones of our elders you provoke a...tidal wave (54). Although this work is set in a futuristic world after an ambiguous Great Disaster on an unnamed Oceanic island, the author manages to allegorically recount the history of the environmental atrocities attributed to the earth's human occupants that have transformed the present reality of the Oceanic region. This essay considers Claudine Jacques's L'Âge du perroquet-banane, Parabole paienne, as well as her novel Noumea Mangrove (2010), as anticipatory testimonies. Both works of fiction call into question the very real violations of environmental human rights facing the diverse ethnic communities of the sui generis collectivity of New Caledonia: nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, pollution from the nickel mining industry, and the depletion of natural resources. This essay demonstrates how Jacques's works engage in environmentalism by bearing witness to and challenging environmental injustices in New Caledonia in particular, and on a broader scale, in the French-speaking Oceanic region.

Employment Relations in the Neostaples Resource Economy: Impact Benefit Agreements and Aboriginal Governance in Canada’s Nickel Mining Industry

(2013). Employment Relations in the Neostaples Resource Economy: Impact Benefit Agreements and Aboriginal Governance in Canada’s Nickel Mining Industry. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 7-34.

Condition for Successful Inverse Transformation of the Error Component of the Multiplicative Time Series Model

Nickel and lead poisoning in drinking water is a major public-health problem at Kawasi Village, as a result of a neglected nickel mining industry that contaminating the source of water in the village. A cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the risk of exposure to lead via drinking water ingestion pathway for the population of Kawasi Village. The study included 984 respondents, with 328 men aged 18-65 years, 328 women of childbearing-aged 15-45 years, and 328 children aged 6-12 years. The results showed the excess cancer risk (ECR) for women, man, and children at Kawasi Village were 6.006x10 -7 , 4.103x10 -7 , and 2.641x10 -7 , respectively. None of the excess cancer risk (ECR) was found to be greater than >10 -4 .In addition, the highest concentration intake (Cmax) were 176487491.8 for man, 350543611.7 for women, and 66205364.4 for children. In conclusion, non-carcinogenic risk attributed to ingestion of lead in the drinking water was found to be negligible. Keywords— Lead Poisoning, Drinking Water, Environmental Health Risk Analysis, Kawasi Village, Obi Island

Integrated coastal zone management perspectives to ensure the sustainability of coral reefs in New Caledonia

Based on a pluridisciplinary research programme on New Caledonia’s lagoon (2004–2008), this paper addresses economic, ecological and political issues in order to implement integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in this French Pacific territory. The nickel mining industry constitutes the core of the re-balancing economic and social strategy between the Northern and Southern provinces. But major impacts on the coastal environment of metal-processing plants, harbours, and decades of mine exploitation have released a controversy. A short diachronic analysis suggests that such environmental concerns prompted the emergence of collective actions to among civil society, customary and institutional stakeholders. The inscription of New Caledonia lagoon and reef areas in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2008 would be both an outcome and a catalyst of this on-going process. Looking beyond the reefs towards the mainland and watersheds for the construction of local socio-ecological systems, we assume that the current stakes could result in the initiation of ICZM in New Caledonia.

非鉄金属製錬プロセスと操業（株）ＹＡＫＩＮ大江山におけるフェロニッケル製錬と環境対策

Our company was established in 1934 as Oheyama Nickel Mining Industry Co., Ltd. to purpose to smelt nickel ore yielded from Mt. Oheyama, a famous mountain located in the north of Kyoto. In 1942, a nickel smelting plant by Krupp-renn process was built in this place.Krupp-renn process is one of the direct steel manufacturing process, which was developed in 1931 by German engineers to treat high silicate and low-grade ore effectively. Oheyama process is the only process in the world that uses Krupp-renn process except steel manufacturing.At the end of the War in 1945, this nickel smelting was suspended. In 1952, the Oheyama plant resume its operation with change of raw materials, from low grade ore to more concentrated nickel ore imported from New Caledonia.YAKIN Oheyama is now producing 1,000t of Ni as ferro-nickel a month.

General Review on the Tin and Nickel Mining Industry of Indonesia

General Review on the Tin and Nickel Mining Industry of Indonesia