The fact that individuals extracting frontier resources tended to rely heavily on information from local newspapers should be of interest for those attempting to understand the boom-bust cycle of frontier towns, and the impact human resource extraction has on local ecosystems.
Frontier living is frontier living.
The accused wannabe car bomber, Faisal Shahzad, is a naturalized U.S. citizen, a Pakistani immigrant of Pashtun extraction with roots in the frontier city of Peshawar.
With land-based mineral sources in decline, seabeds offer a new and largely untapped frontier for mineral extraction, and companies are gearing up to mine a treasure trove of copper, zinc, gold, manganese, and other minerals from the ocean floor., Scientists, regulators, and mining companies are now collaborating on frameworks and strategies for mining the seabed responsibly.
Those optimistic immigrants enthusiastically invested their labor, dollars and lives in the hopes of benefiting from the extraction of natural resources on the frontier.
For now, though, the company is still keen and willing to look to untapped frontiers of fossil fuel extraction, with the Arctic being one of the key targets in its sights – where they were behind a major oil discovery in Russia's icy Kara Sea last year.
The president-elect has vowed to pursue an "America first" energy policy that will open up a new frontier in domestic coal, oil and gas extraction while eviscerating the effort to combat climate change, which Trump has previously called a "hoax".
As markets are the main spaces through which capital operates and expands alongside the 'space-of-place', the markets through which commodities flow from extraction to consumption represent the main 'space-of-flows' of commodity frontiers.
The site appears to have served as a frontier way station along a key transportation route, focused on the extraction of coastal products and their transfer via interregional roads to the highlands.
