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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 2013
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2014.0055.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: soft metal tags
Patents: N/A
General Description: Soft, silver metal [possibly zinc or aluminium] tags are rectangular. Received in rigid white paper box.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 10.0 cm
Width: 6.9 cm
Height: 2.3 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Exploration and Survey
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Haiti
State/Province: Unknown
Period: Presumably used 2010 to 2013.
Canada: Item from comprehensive collection of tools and technologies used by a Canadian prospector, who worked in the exploration division of Newmont Mining Corporation in Haiti between 2010 and 2013. This collection reflects three aspects of the modern Canadian mining, crucial to the understanding of this sector: mobility of the workforce, ethnicity in the workforce, and globalization. The mining workforce has been highly mobile on both community and individual levels. Entire towns formed around mining operations and died or changed their character when the resources were exhausted. Mining professionals, especially in the field of mineral exploration, work in various often remote locations around the globe, and cover long distances in their daily work. The items donated to the Museum well represent the type of tools and technologies necessary to working outdoors, in remote locations, and a tropical climate. Ethnicity continues to play a role in the sector’s hiring practices. In this particular case, an employer looked for a recent graduate, bilingual prospector, educated in Canada, who could also communicate in Haitian-Creole. A set of hiring criteria in mining is often very specific and difficult to meet by Canadian graduates, but essential to succeeding in exploration projects conducted abroad. Donated artifacts reflect Haitian-Creole cultural context of Newmont operations. [Ref. 1]
Function: Specific: Used to mark locations, the date and the name of the survey or prospecting individual or company that visited the area. [Ref. 1]
Technical: A box of metal tags used to mark locations, the date and the name of the company that visited the area. The tags would be left either on trees, bushes or other landscape features. The info would be scratched on the soft metal to make the record more durable. [Ref. 1]
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: None evident.
Missing: Collection : unknown Individual tags are complete in themselves.
Finish: Soft, silver metal [possibly zinc or aluminium] tags are rectangular. Received in rigid white paper box.
Decoration: N/A

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Unknown Manufacturer, Tag collection, before 2013, Artifact no. 2014.0055, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2014.0055.001/

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