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Author | : Andrew C. Isenberg |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2010-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374707200 |
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An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Author | : California State Mining Bureau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Download Chapter of Report ... of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : California. Division of Mines and Mining |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Mineral industries |
ISBN | : |
Download California Journal of Mines and Geology ... Quarterly Chapter of State Mineralogist's Report Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Report for 1917/18 consists of three monographs by E. MacBoyle issued separately as Mines and mineral resources of Nevada County. Mines and mineral resources of Plumas County. Mines and mineral resources of Sierra County.
Author | : Rodman Wilson Paul |
Publisher | : Bison Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : California Miners' Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Download California Mines and Minerals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Marlene Smith-Baranzini |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520217706 |
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A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.
Author | : California. Hydraulic Mining Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Hydraulic mining |
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Download Report of the Hydraulic Mining Commission Upon the Feasibility of the Resumption of Hydraulic Mining in California Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Andrew Scott Johnston |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2013-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1457183994 |
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Exploring the development of California and the relationship between the built environments of the mercury-mining industry and the emerging ethnic identities and communities in California, Mercury and the Making of California brings mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in their defining roles in the development of the American West. In this pioneering study, Andrew Johnston examines the history of California’s mercury-mining industry—and its defining role in the development of the American West. Mercury was crucial to refining gold and silver; therefore, its production and use were vital to creating and securing power and wealth in the west. The first industrialized mining in California, mercury mining had its own particular organization and structure shaped by powers first formed within the Spanish Empire, transformed by British imperial ambitions, and manipulated by groups made wealthy and powerful by controlling it. In addition, the landscapes of work and camp and the relations among the many groups—Mexicans, Chileans, Spanish, British, Irish, Cornish, American, and Chinese—throughout the industry’s history illustrate the complex history of race and ethnicity in the American West. Combining rich documentary sources with a close examination of the existing physical landscape, Andrew Johnston explores both the detail of everyday work and life in the mines and the larger economic and social structures in which mercury mining was enmeshed, revealing the significance of mercury mining to Western history.
Author | : Philip Ross May |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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The method of hydraulic mining was developed in California to work low grade gravels while searching for gold. It was used from 1853 to 1884. The method was adopted in mining for other minerals.
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Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
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