This paper explores mine waste that originates from resource extraction by specifically focusing on rock, tailings, dust and material culture the industry. By drawing examples fieldwork, archives, local media commentary limited interviews two iron-mining regions in Arctic Norway sub-Arctic Canada, this follows as it routinely transgresses attempts to be managed. Mine spills out of its prescribe...

This contribution takes into focus elements as scenes of thought in order to contest our colonial, anthropocentric and extractivist mo-dernity: fires burning fossil fuels, waves the open sea, shores landscape islands, clouds sky beyond. We sug-gest that these motifs bear possibility examine problems present well develop other, differing new rela-tionalities.