June Nash, marxist anthropologist, "We Eat The Mines and the Mines Eat Us, " on Bolivian Tin Mining.
"The Devil and Commodity Fetishism, " by Michael Taussig. Read a chapter when excepted or adapted in Genovese's short lived journal of the late 80's, Marxist Perspectives.
(if my memory is off, and this had nothing to do w/mining, well ;-) S. Salgado, the great photojournalist, in his coffee table book from Aperture, "Workers, " has some horrific photos of mineworkers. New Left Review a few yrs. ago had a review of Salgado. Michael Pugliese