ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illustrates the ongoing significance and complexities in debates about raw materials control on the environment, societies, and markets, through an historical focus on tin. Tin's historical experience is proximate to other metals and minerals. The book deliberates the effects of tin mining on development. The complex of overlapping networks of global reach is abundantly visible by many of the contributors, part of the sometimes entangled geographies of raw material diplomacy. The book shows that considerable variation in the interests and choices governing the trade in tin, as with important natural resources driven by vested personal and group interests, and national/imperial chauvinism. It illustrates strategic justifications for control over supplies and reserves of tin have exercised a profound effect on the global market for the metal.
