The Copper Mine Case Study

This is a true case study of how one person s drive, desire, and ambition to make a difference in safety brought about one of the most significant safety culture changes in the copper mining and refining industry in Arizona. 

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Craddock, in a comprehensive paper on medieval and west African bronze analysis, has clearly pointed out the inherent dangers of interpretation of analytical data for copper or copper-based alloys in terms of provenience. Provenancing metal from its composition has always proved immensely difficult even for the ancient Near East and Europe where one can normally assume that the metal has been mined, smelted, fabricated, used and discarded within the same society. In the case of West Africa where the bulk of the metal came from a wide variety of undifferentiated sources which were far distant and technically superior, the task of interpreting the metal analyses becomes all the more fraught with difficulty. In copper provenancing studies generally three assumptions have to be made ... 

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