Origins Of Hydraulic Mining In California

Author : Philip Ross May
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
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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.

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 0374707200
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Augustus Jesse Bowie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375511841
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hydraulic Mining in California written by Augustus Jesse Bowie and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Powell Greenland
Publisher : Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hydraulic Mining in California written by Powell Greenland and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

Author : Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Debris Commission written by Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augustus Jesse Bowie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California written by Augustus Jesse Bowie and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augustus Jesse Bowie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California written by Augustus Jesse Bowie and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California written by Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California written by Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Russell Wagner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Gold Mines of California written by Jack Russell Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic record of the last era of California gold mining.