Abstract

SANCHEZ CRISPIN, Alvaro. Temas susceptibles de investigación en la geografía minera mexicana contemporánea. Invest. Geog [online]. 1988, n.18, pp.129-144. ISSN 2448-7279.

The aim of this paper is to give a broad idea of current literature published on mining. Before the literature review comes a brief description of Mexico as a country where mining has been important ever since the Spanish Conquest. Issues such as transnational corporations in mining, the economic history of mining regions in several parts of the world, the political economy of mining activity and the characteristics of labour force engaged in mining are among those themes included in the literature review. Studies have been carried out by a number of social scientists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, and so on; the absence of papers written by geographers is apparent. It is in this context that, at the end of this paper, a set of issues worth investigating in the Geography of Mining in contemporary Mexico is presented.