@mininghistory

Consulting historian and researcher. I write about mining, migration and Southern Africa. More info here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/q4vQqMh8RR Email: [email protected]

 Kampala, Uganda
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Joined February 2015
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Duncan Money retweeted
Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs4h
It's publication day! An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class is published today, 27 October 2026, by @VersoBooks. My book is a new history how Britain's formerly powerful working class was pushed to the political margins. Order🔽 versobooks.com/en-gb/product…
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As part of International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (18–24 October), @EAfricaZambia launched UNDENIABLE: Anglo American’s Role in the Kabwe Sacrifice Zone. Get involved: actsa.org/justice-for-the-mi… #JusticeForKabwe
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Tommy Miles@tommymiles23h
“Africa's problem has not been its failure to learn but its learning too well” —“Our Continent, Our Future” (1998), p.37. “Read more Mkandawire” is always good advice. Full text: idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.or…
Oliver Kim
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Mkandawire and Soludo pulling no punches re: technical assistance in Africa
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I thought I knew….. but really not… wow… thanks to @mininghistory for the history.
Duncan Money@mininghistoryOct 26
Anglo American bought Zambia's main brewery in 1994, six years before they bought any mines. A good example of how Anglo was only loosely speaking a mining company in the 1990s.
Page of type-written text. Text reads: "2. AGENDA Privatization of Zambia Breweries Transfer of contract of employees. PREAMBLE: The meeting was called by the Anglo American Corporation to brief the ZCTU on the situation regarding Privatization of the Lusaka Division and the need to transfer employees and their contracts to the new owner - Anglo American Corporation and Indol of South African Breweries."

ALT Page of type-written text. Text reads: "2. AGENDA Privatization of Zambia Breweries Transfer of contract of employees. PREAMBLE: The meeting was called by the Anglo American Corporation to brief the ZCTU on the situation regarding Privatization of the Lusaka Division and the need to transfer employees and their contracts to the new owner - Anglo American Corporation and Indol of South African Breweries."

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Anglo American bought Zambia's main brewery in 1994, six years before they bought any mines. A good example of how Anglo was only loosely speaking a mining company in the 1990s.
Page of type-written text. Text reads: "2. AGENDA Privatization of Zambia Breweries Transfer of contract of employees. PREAMBLE: The meeting was called by the Anglo American Corporation to brief the ZCTU on the situation regarding Privatization of the Lusaka Division and the need to transfer employees and their contracts to the new owner - Anglo American Corporation and Indol of South African Breweries."

ALT Page of type-written text. Text reads: "2. AGENDA Privatization of Zambia Breweries Transfer of contract of employees. PREAMBLE: The meeting was called by the Anglo American Corporation to brief the ZCTU on the situation regarding Privatization of the Lusaka Division and the need to transfer employees and their contracts to the new owner - Anglo American Corporation and Indol of South African Breweries."

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Anglo American's Managing Director Anderson Masoka - here explaining how Anglo were going to run the brewery - later established the United Party for National Development.
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Digitisation of the historical archive of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions passed 200,000 pages this week and our project will soon be complete. This collection should be available to researchers in 2027.
An office workspace setup with an overhead document scanner, laptop, desk fan, and cabinets filled with file binders.

ALT An office workspace setup with an overhead document scanner, laptop, desk fan, and cabinets filled with file binders.

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Some of the remaining documents have badly deteriorated though. Documents that are only 30-40 years old are often almost illegible.
A hand pulls a blue binder filled with heavily worn, frayed, and aged paper documents out of a cardboard storage box.

ALT A hand pulls a blue binder filled with heavily worn, frayed, and aged paper documents out of a cardboard storage box.

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Tommy Miles@tommymilesOct 22
This sounds like a fascinating biography, appropriately from not only a journalist who’d followed Mugabe for decades, but a Zimbabwean journalist raised in the same community & culture as his subject. Robert Mugabe: The Black Victorian x Percy Zvomuya hararereview.com/2026/10/22/…

Robert Mugabe: The Black Victorian x Percy Zvomuya

356 pp. October 15, 2026, Jonathan Ball Publishers. Non-fiction. My middle sister, when she was small and could still be carried, was obsessed with “The President”; so of course when one day we wer…

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One professor who recently left academia said it felt like being a miner in 1982 and it’s hard to disagree
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When countries want to move up the value-added processing curve, like Indonesia with nickel, they are competing with cash-rich, low-interest rate China, not the expensive West
Duncan Money@mininghistoryOct 22
Striking statistics in the new Copper Factbook on the rise of metal processing in China and collapse in Europe and America (production in Asia was mostly Japan in 1990, and is overwhelmingly China in 2025). It's gone from a global industry to a national one in four decades:
Two donut graphs showing world refined copper production in 1990 and in 2025. The graphs show production in Europe declined from 32% to 13%, America declined from 39% to 13% while Asia rose from 19% to 62%.

ALT Two donut graphs showing world refined copper production in 1990 and in 2025. The graphs show production in Europe declined from 32% to 13%, America declined from 39% to 13% while Asia rose from 19% to 62%.

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Striking statistics in the new Copper Factbook on the rise of metal processing in China and collapse in Europe and America (production in Asia was mostly Japan in 1990, and is overwhelmingly China in 2025). It's gone from a global industry to a national one in four decades:
Two donut graphs showing world refined copper production in 1990 and in 2025. The graphs show production in Europe declined from 32% to 13%, America declined from 39% to 13% while Asia rose from 19% to 62%.

ALT Two donut graphs showing world refined copper production in 1990 and in 2025. The graphs show production in Europe declined from 32% to 13%, America declined from 39% to 13% while Asia rose from 19% to 62%.

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The other striking graphs are the enormous difference between production and consumption. The two regions that mine 57% of the world's copper (Africa and Asia, graph on the left) use only 2% of the world's refined copper.
Donut graph showing world copper mine production by region. Latin America produces 38% and Africa 19%.

ALT Donut graph showing world copper mine production by region. Latin America produces 38% and Africa 19%.

Donut graph showing world refined copper use by region in 2025. Asia uses 76% while Africa and Latin America use 1% each.

ALT Donut graph showing world refined copper use by region in 2025. Asia uses 76% while Africa and Latin America use 1% each.

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The World Copper Factbook 2026 is available here: icsg.org/copper-factbook/

Copper Factbook

World Copper Factbook 2026The ICSG's World Copper Factbook provides a broad overview of all facets of copper from how it is mined, produced, traded, used and recycled, to health, environmental, and...

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Miners Strike@Miners_StrikeOct 21
In the dark welsh valley, On the mountain side, Lay the little children Close to where they died. Their little lives are ended Before they reach their goal, Tender little children Have paid the price of coal. We will never forget - Aberfan 21-10-66 #AberfanDisaster
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Very pleased to see my report on historic toxic mining pollution in Kabwe is being shared and discussed today with residents in the town. You can read the report here: actsa.org/new-report-https-u…

New report: UNDENIABLE ANGLO AMERICAN’S ROLE IN THE KABWE SACRIFICE ZONE - ACTSA

On Wednesday, 23 September 2026, Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) launches UNDENIABLE: Anglo American’s role in the Kabwe sacrifice zone, a new report examining Anglo American’s historical role in...

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Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA)@ACTSA_UKOct 21
Today, @EAfricaZambia is hosting a breakfast event in Kabwe to bring the findings of ACTSA's report, UNDENIABLE: Anglo American’s Role in the Kabwe Sacrifice Zone, to the heart of the community. Get involved, support the campaign: 🔗actsa.org/justice-for-the-mi… #JusticeForKabwe
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Aberfan I didn’t lose God From theological arguments Or scientific dialectics I lost him in Aberfan In Vietnam in Poverty – bread jam. By Roger Cornish Pitman Poet (ex Whitwick, Ellistown and Asfordby collieries)
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Me and Robrecht Declercq take a long-term look at how mineral exploration has changed over the last couple of centuries in our new article for Mining Journal: mining-journal.com/mj-commen…

Op-ed: Mineral exploration from prospectors to algorithms

Will AI see the geologist replaced?

mining-journal.com
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my deepest mission in life is to share my passion for coinage weight histograms. this is my favorite thing in the whole world
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Duncan Money retweeted
Howard W. French@hofrenchOct 19
Is there a single African quoted in this piece? (No.) wsj.com/world/africa/the-new…

The New Wild West of Gold Mining Is West Africa

Mining companies have invested billions of dollars in new gold mines to cash in on near-record-high prices for the metal.

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