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New Almaden

Author : Michael Boulland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738531311
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book New Almaden written by Michael Boulland and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rocky, wooded canyon south of San Jose lies New Almaden, a settlement that grew near the oldest and richest mine in California. Discovered in 1845, its quicksilver payload was once crucial for gold and silver processing and manufacturing munitions. It produced over $75 million from the deepest network of quicksilver shafts on earth. Diverse laborers populated this thriving town, creating neighborhoods called Hacienda, Englishtown, and Spanishtown, along with the mine manager's stately home, Casa Grande. Although the mines are now closed and the great ore furnace cold, the Casa Grande still stands along with a residential community that was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1963. In a rocky, wooded canyon south of San Jose lies New Almaden, a settlement that grew near the oldest and richest mine in California. Discovered in 1845, its quicksilver payload was once crucial for gold and silver processing and manufacturing munitions. It produced over $75 million from the deepest network of quicksilver shafts on earth. Diverse laborers populated this thriving town, creating neighborhoods called Hacienda, Englishtown, and Spanishtown, along with the mine manager's stately home, Casa Grande. Although the mines are now closed and the great ore furnace cold, the Casa Grande still stands along with a residential community that was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1963.

Quicksilver

Author : Jimmie Schneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quicksilver written by Jimmie Schneider and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geological Survey Professional Paper

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal

Author : California. Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 439 pages
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Download or read book Journal written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mercury and the Making of California

Author : Andrew Scott Johnston
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322439
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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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 297 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.

Geological Survey Professional Paper

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carleton Watkins

Author : Carleton E. Watkins
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060058
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Carleton Watkins written by Carleton E. Watkins and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an opulently illustrated catalogue of the entire remaining mammoth photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). The work will contribute not only to a fuller understanding of this pioneering photographer but also portray the barely explored frontier in its final moments of pristine beauty.

Mines and Minerals

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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book Mines and Minerals written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

House documents

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Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Census Reports

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Census Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pony Express Courier

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
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Download or read book Pony Express Courier written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strangers on Familiar Soil

Author : Edward D. Melillo
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206623
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Strangers on Familiar Soil written by Edward D. Melillo and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of the diverse historical connections between Chile and California This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet's diplomatic visit to the Golden State in 2008. During the intervening centuries, new crops, foods, fertilizers, mining technologies, laborers, and ideas from Chile radically altered California's development. In turn, Californian systems of servitude, exotic species, educational programs, and capitalist development strategies dramatically shaped Chilean history. Edward Dallam Melillo develops a new set of historical perspectives--tracing eastward-moving trends in U.S. history, uncovering South American influences on North America's development, and reframing the Western Hemisphere from a Pacific vantage point. His innovative approach yields transnational insights and recovers long-forgotten connections between the peoples and ecosystems of Chile and California.

Bulletin

Author : California. Division of Mines and Geology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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:

The Quicksilver Resources of California

Author : William Forstner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Quicksilver Resources of California written by William Forstner and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subsurface and Petroleum Geology of the Southwestern Santa Clara Valley ("Silicon Valley"), California

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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Subsurface and Petroleum Geology of the Southwestern Santa Clara Valley ("Silicon Valley"), California written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeing Underground

Author : Eric C. Nystrom
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874179335
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Underground written by Eric C. Nystrom and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode, were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground, Nystrom argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States, the development of maps and models gave power to a new visual culture and allowed mining engineers to advance their profession, gaining authority over mining operations from the miners themselves. Starting in the late nineteenth century, mining engineers developed a new set of practices, artifacts, and discourses to visualize complex, pitch-dark three-dimensional spaces. These maps and models became necessary tools in creating and controlling those spaces. They made mining more understandable, predictable, and profitable. Nystrom shows that this new visual culture was crucial to specific developments in American mining, such as implementing new safety regulations after the Avondale, Pennsylvania fire of 1869 killed 110 men and boys; understanding complex geology, as in the rich ores of Butte, Montana; and settling high-stakes litigation, such as the Tonopah, Nevada, Jim Butler v. West End lawsuit, which reached the US Supreme Court. Nystrom demonstrates that these neglected artifacts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have much to teach us today. The development of a visual culture helped create a new professional class of mining engineers and changed how mining was done. Seeing Undergound is the winner of the 2015 Mining History Association’s Clark Spence Award for the best book on mining history.