Chinese mining industry

This is the most gloomy industrial system in the world.
In china, Shanxi Province is the center of Chinese coal mining system, and thousands of coal mining companies, both legal and illegal, are operated there. Little children and women are hired, with crude security insurance. The landscape in Shanxi Province were more than worse, especially in 1990-2000. The air was hardly to spare near the mining cave and there were holes everywhere on the land, which usually cause some earthquakes, not disastrous but scary. Any people died everyday because of mining accident, and usually because of corruption, the number of people died or missing was not published. Here is a link for the disaster just in July, 2011.
http://www.usmra.com/chinatable.htm. Mining people are trampled in China, really. Money is the only thing they care about.
Oh, here is a article for Centralia Pa.
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm

"The Town that Was" Documentary

I was looking for more information about the underground mine fires in Pennsylvania, and I found this trailer for a documentary titled "The Town that Was." It highlights the situation in Centralia, PA, and the area's transformation into a ghost town. Here's the link to the trailer ...

http://www.thetownthatwas.com/trailer

Hydraulic Mining in Pale Rider

Hi everyone,
we mentioned hydraulic mining in class this morning, and such mining provides the backdrop for Clint Eastwood's 1985 film, Pale Rider.

The film has received a fair amount of attention from scholars who are interested in environmental themes in film, see for example the linked online essay by Joseph K. Heumann and Robin Murray. These authors also have a new book titled Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge.

The scene discussed by Heumann and Murray is available on YouTube, below.



getting close to term paper time . . . .
Jim