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Book Synopsis Mining California by : Andrew C. Isenberg
Download or read book Mining California written by Andrew C. Isenberg and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Chapter of Report ... of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau by :
Download or read book Chapter of Report ... of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Mines and Minerals by : California Miners' Association
Download or read book California Mines and Minerals written by California Miners' Association and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California by : Philip Ross May
Download or read book Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California written by Philip Ross May and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis California Gold by : Rodman Wilson Paul
Download or read book California Gold written by Rodman Wilson Paul and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1965 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mining in California written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mercury and the Making of California by : Andrew Scott Johnston
Download or read book Mercury and the Making of California written by Andrew Scott Johnston and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Chapter of Report ... of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau by : California State Mining Bureau
Download or read book Chapter of Report ... of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau written by California State Mining Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Golden State by : Marlene Smith-Baranzini
Download or read book A Golden State written by Marlene Smith-Baranzini and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book New Almaden written by Mary Hallock Foote and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Minerals of California by : H. Earl Pemberton
Download or read book Minerals of California written by H. Earl Pemberton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1866 William P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining at the College of California, parent to the University of California, Berkeley, prepared as a report to the State Board of Agriculture an "Annotated Catalog of the Principal Mineral Species Hitherto Recognized in California and the adjoining States and Territories. " Seventy-seven mineral species appeared on the list. It was the beginning of a series that became known as Minerals of California. This first catalog was followed in 1884 and 1886 by a list of 135 species compiled by H. G. Hanks, the first state mineralogist of California, and pub· lished in the fourth and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning in 1914 with a volume prepared by A. S. Eakle, professor of mineralogy at the Uni versity of California, Berkeley, the Division of Mines and Geology published new editions in the series at approximately ten-year intervals. Author Year Mineral Species A. S. Eakle 1914 352 A. S. Eakle 1923 417 A. Pabst 1938 446 J. Murdoch and R. W. Webb 1948 516 J. Murdoch and R. W. Webb 1956 523 J. Murdoch and R. W. Webb 1966 602 (For a more detailed review of the Minerals of California series, see I. Campbell, 1966, pp. 13-19. ) For over 100 years the series has served those who have a historic, scientific or economic interest in California minerals.
Book Synopsis We the Miners by : Andrea G. McDowell
Download or read book We the Miners written by Andrea G. McDowell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.
Book Synopsis Gold districts of California by : William B. Clark
Download or read book Gold districts of California written by William B. Clark and published by William B. Clark. This book was released on 1970 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold districts of California
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : California. Division of Mines
Download or read book Bulletin written by California. Division of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Mines and Minerals written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Mineral Production for 1915 by : California. Division of Mines and Geology
Download or read book California Mineral Production for 1915 written by California. Division of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Placer Mining for Gold in California: No.135 C.2 by : Charles Volney Averill
Download or read book Placer Mining for Gold in California: No.135 C.2 written by Charles Volney Averill and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
