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Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals

Colbalt

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Julie

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February 8, 2022

With the demand for cobalt in today’s society, Charlie Angus’ book Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals Birth of a Mining Town writes about the history and its impact of cobalt mining from its first discovery in Cobalt, Ontario to current day.  

This book covers a lot without seeming heavy handed. It offers a social history of frontier life, an economic lesson in the rise and fall of a boomtown, and commentary on indigenous relations and the impact of mining on the environment. Angus writes a very readable non-fiction. 

This book packs quite the punch in the vein of Charlotte Gray’s Gold Diggers and Murdered Midas.

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