Mapping the Bonanza: Geographies of Mining Investment in an Era of Neoliberal Reform

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• *A Junior Faculty Development Grant from the University of Oklahoma supported initial stages of this research. An NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement Grant supported additional research assistance by April Rankin. I thank Julie Parker for her work developing and mapping the pilot dataset, Gerardo Castillo and Todd Fagin for their assistance extracting data from MineSearch and producing maps, and Joe Stoll for his help with graphics. Russell Carter, Graham Davis, Magnus Ericsson, Rob Krueger, and Gregory Theyel provided insightful discussion and/or helpful comments on a much earlier version of this article. Special thanks to Bakes Mitchell at the Metals Economics Group for his interest in this project and for continuing discussions on the geographies of mining investment. I would also like to thank three anonymous referees for their comments. The usual disclaimers apply.
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