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Book Synopsis New Idria Quicksilver by : Ray Iddings
Download or read book New Idria Quicksilver written by Ray Iddings and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the term mercury belonged to the language of science, quicksilver was the term commonly used by capitalist and miners. This book is the complete history of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining District. New Idria was once a thriving community lost away on the eastern slope of Central California's Coast Range. Measured by total production, New Idria was the world's fourth largest quicksilver mine, and for a time the world's largest producer. Today it is a decrepit ghost town-population zero. This book tells in detail how an 1852 silver mining scam led to discovery of rich cinnabar deposits, and development of a valuable mining company that created enormous wealth for several California capitalist. The value of this mine attracted land fraud claims that created 38 years of legal turmoil and tainted many of Washington's aspiring politicians. This book describes the litigious struggle and the various companies owning this mine during it history. The company town of New Idria was an oasis of civility surrounded by California's badlands. The first prospectors into these rugged mountains, while contending with grizzly bears and dangerous outlaws, found protection in an association with the famous bandit Joaquin Murrieta. Doctors and engineers came as the community grew, and a school, postoffice, and churches were built. Roads and hotels were constructed, and families grew as miners changed the landscape by removing 20 million tons of rock from the mountain. The nearby towns of Picacho and Syncline came, and went. This region of once bustling industry, moved by thunderous dynamite and roaring bulldozers ... today lies silent. However, New Idria's story continues today, because the discovery of this cinnabar (the ore of mercury) in 1854 sparked many technological developments that forever changed ore processing worldwide. Although now a bygone era, New Idria left many important achievements upon the world stage. One example is the first successful seal-air rotary furnace that forever changed ore processing and later created a method for environmentally safe waste incineration, was developed at New Idria. Another example is development of tactical fire fighting methods using four-wheel drive vehicles, portable radios and mobile field support for combating wildfires. These firefighting techniques were first used when the U. S. Army saved New Idria from a wildfire during WWII when the fire threatened mercury production, a strategic ore needed to win the war. These are a few of the stories of New Idria's history told in this book. New Idria Quicksilver: History of the New Idria Mining District is the definitive and factual history this important piece of the California story.
Book Synopsis Methods and Costs of Mining Quicksilver Ore at the New Idria Mine, San Benito County, Calif by : W. R. Moorehead
Download or read book Methods and Costs of Mining Quicksilver Ore at the New Idria Mine, San Benito County, Calif written by W. R. Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Mining Laws of Hungary by : E. P. Youngman
Download or read book Mining Laws of Hungary written by E. P. Youngman and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 1903 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : California. Division of Mines and Geology
Download or read book Bulletin written by California. Division of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 436 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 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercury and the Making of California, Andrew Johnston’s multidisciplinary examination of the history and cultural landscapes of California’s mercury-mining industry, raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in the development of the American West. Gold and silver could not be refined without mercury; therefore, its production and use were vital to securing power and wealth in the West. The first industrialized mining in California, mercury mining had its own particular organization, structure, and built environments. These were formed within the Spanish Empire, subsequently transformed by British imperial ambitions, and eventually manipulated by American bankers and investors. In California mercury mining also depended on a workforce differentiated by race and ethnicity. The landscapes of work and camp and the relations among the many groups involved in the industry—Mexicans, Chileans, Spanish, English, Irish, Cornish, American, and Chinese—form a crucial chapter in the complex history of race and ethnicity in the American West. This pioneering study explicates the mutual structuring of the built environments of the mercury-mining industry and the emergence of California’s ethnic communities. Combining rich documentary sources with a close examination of the existing physical landscape, 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 for Western history.
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Book Synopsis Miscellaneous Documents by : United States. Congress. Senate
Download or read book Miscellaneous Documents written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ... by : California
Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ... written by California and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the State Mineralogist by : California. Division of Mines and Geology
Download or read book Report of the State Mineralogist written by California. Division of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the State Mineralogist by : California State Mining Bureau
Download or read book Report of the State Mineralogist written by California State Mining Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : United States. Bureau of Mines
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Quicksilver Chronicles by : Frances K. Woods
Download or read book Quicksilver Chronicles written by Frances K. Woods and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quicksilver Chronicles" is one woman's surreal and satirical memoirs spanning about a decade, from the beginning of this new century, depicting what life throws at her family of gem-mining misfits struggling to live with a lethally polluted watershed in a forgotten western ghost town, called New Idria. As the James family copes with their systematic mercury poisoning -- the aftermath of unscrupulous mining corporations, the U.S. Department of Defense, and a reservoir-hoarding drug rehab upstream -- their hopes of environmental justice diminish with each new anti-scientific edict enacted by the state. The tiny community earnestly elects an orange tabby, a people-hating cat, as Mayor to represent their micro-nation. Told through the eyes of Georgia James, the saga details the clan's run-ins with highgraders, UFOs, "Littlefoot," the insane "War on Drugs," and the absurd politics of the Bush/Cheney years.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Non-ferrous Metallurgy Prepared by a Staff of Specialists by : Donald Macy Liddell
Download or read book Handbook of Non-ferrous Metallurgy Prepared by a Staff of Specialists written by Donald Macy Liddell and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cumulative Daily Digest of Corporation News by :
Download or read book The Cumulative Daily Digest of Corporation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
