NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Geotechnical Investigation, Muskeg, Commodification
15 May 2017
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Nats 1840 lecture 22 - nature resists commodification and technology fights back: Natural resources as fiscal tools for the state, technological extraction of natural resources, treating resources in a single way, private and public development of resources. Canadian shield approximately 8,000,000 square kilometers of precambrian rock, meteorite impact craters, extinct volcanoes, minerals: nickel, gold, silver, zinc, sulfides, diamonds and copper, southern reaches covered in forests. The shield is marked by, rolling, rocky hills, muskeg bogs, and innumerable lakes, rivers, and creeks , difficult to traverse, large size. 1920"s canadian mining companies adopted plane for surveying. Post wwi economic slowdown, aerial surveying techniques (interpretation of aerial photographs) Government (royal canadian air force and department of the interior) dedicated resources to techniques. Canadian mining industry and canadian government, method for transforming aerial photographs into geological data, speed and efficiency over accuracy. Approach common to canadian technology, national style of developing technology,
