"This is an important and very readable book. It is well-researched and reliable. The photos are stunning. Its excellent labour history will appeal to miners and their communities. The devastating impacts on indigenous people is a story that needed to be told. It does indeed “provide a mining history for all Canadians.”"
- Joan Kuyek Alternatives Journal
"Mining Country is a gorgeous book – large format, packed with imagery."
- Joan Sullivan Newfoundland Quarterly
"Their book is intended to bridge the divides between benefits and costs, enrichment and disenfranchisement, global reach and social disruptions, over millennia of developments, though the bulk of analysis and discussion unfolds within a modern to up-to-date time period."
- Joan Sullivan The Telegram
"Filled with 150 archival photographs, Mining Country makes it clear how Canadian mining...helped shape the postwar world."
- Michael Strizic Literary Review of Canada
"In Mining Country, Sandlos and Keeling have pulled together a vast amount of material on Canadian mining history, creating an engaging and often surprising story. Compellingly written and handsomely illustrated, Mining Country pays particular attention to Indigenous mining histories."
- Nancy Langston, distinguished professor of environmental history, Michigan Technical University and author of Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene
"Finally, a history of Canadian mining that tells the whole story, one that does not shy away from detailing the environmental damage done and the astronomical clean-up costs, or the efforts of Indigenous communities to secure often-promised but rarely achieved economic benefits. Anyone who cares about environmental justice needs to read this book."
- Jeremy Mouat, professor emeritus, University of Alberta and author of Roaring Days: Rossland’s Mines and the History of British Columbia
"Canada is a mining nation. The economies of many provinces and some of our biggest cities are anchored in resource extraction. And yet few Canadians have any awareness of the immense influence of mining. Mining Country provides a much-needed primer on the impacts of this industry on the economy, environment, workers' health and Indigenous rights across Canada."
- Charlie Angus, NDP MP and author of Cobalt: The Making of a Mining Superpower (forthcoming)
"Sandlos and Keeling show that the history of mining is not just a story of technological triumphalism, while also demonstrating its essential and undeniable role in the function of our modern material lives."
- Jedidiah Anderson University of British Columbia
"The book aims to provide “a general narrative of Canadian mining history” and that is where it succeeds. The reader quickly realizes how fundamental the search for, and mining of, metals and minerals has been to Canada’s creation."
- Herb Mathisen CIM Magazine
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