@mcc happy to send a copy, but yeah I meant rhetorically the suffering in extractive industries sorry for confusion
got it, thanks!
Read about a page & half, then was hit with two thoughts: This looks like it's going to be right up my alley (history of fuzed quartz? yes please), but also I could blow a huge hole in my midday schedule (I often don't have one, but today I do!)
Hoping to dig in later.
ok, I finished it!
I could go in all sorts of directions with this.
I have no idea though which might interest you more, so I'll start at the biggest thing that occurs to me, which is the similarity between the reduction of silicon dioxide, or water, or of rust to get chip-fab silicon, hydrogen gas, or iron.
As it happens, reading up a little on silicon production yesterday connects these three reduced elements in ways that surprised me, by way of a material called ferrosilicon.