The Making Of A Mining District

Author : David J. Krause
Publisher : Great Lakes Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814324066
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Mining District written by David J. Krause and published by Great Lakes Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan is the only place on earth where large amounts of copper are found in the pure metallic "native" state. The Making of a Mining District is the first book to fully document how the value of these unique deposits came to be recognized, from the time Europeans first became aware of the native copper shortly after 1500 to the establishment of the region as one of the great copper mining districts of the world. Krause focuses on the period from 1820 to 1865, when the district's true mining potential became clearer to many and when American science changed from a pleasant amateur diversion into a more rigorous professional discipline, a change clearly reflected in attitudes toward this unique region.

Author : David J. Krause
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814324073
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Mining District written by David J. Krause and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of the people and events that led to the gradual recognition of the mining potential of the unique native copper deposits of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, which culminated in the first great mining boom in American history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Carl L. Ege
Publisher : Utah Geological Survey
ISBN 13 : 1557917264
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Mining Districts of Utah written by Carl L. Ege and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a geologist, history buff, or rockhound, this booklet will be a helpful guide to Utah?s mining districts. The booklet is divided up into three parts: the first part provides general information on what a mining district is, how many mining districts are in Utah, types of mineral deposits found at these districts, and landownership issues. The second part includes individual mining-district discussions containing information on location, production, history, geology, mineralogy, and current/future operations. The third part includes a glossary of geologic terms and other useful resources in the appendices, such as a descriptive list of minerals found in the districts, geologic time scale, and a list of mineral resources of the mining districts.

Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Places written by Richard V. Francaviglia and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Turrentine Jackson
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1943859167
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure Hill written by W. Turrentine Jackson and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, the discovery of an exceptionally rich silver ore on Treasure Hill in eastern Nevada led to an intense but short-lived boom. The White Pine Mining District was quickly organized, and in time a new Nevada county was created with that name. The boom lasted only two seasons, but dogged investors, mostly British, spent more than twenty years pursuing the dream of making White Pine a prosperous mining district before they withdrew and left behind only disappointment and ghost towns. W. Turrentine Jackson’s study of Treasure Hill, first published in 1963, has endured as a classic case study of a typical mining district in the western United States. Much more than events at the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, the rush to White Pine, its brief season of glory and excitement followed by sudden decline, typifies the pattern of development in the majority of mining districts in the West. Far more than a tale of sudden wealth and lawlessness—although both were abundant—Treasure Hill encompasses the impact of growing international capitalism and labor movements on the mining West, the bitter politics surrounding the creation of towns and counties, and the human costs of boom and bust. Available again in a new paperback edition, with a foreword by mining historian Joseph V. Tingley,Treasure Hill offers readers a lively, thoroughly researched account of one of Nevada’s richest and briefest mining booms.

Author : Joseph V. Tingley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mining Districts of Nevada written by Joseph V. Tingley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph V. Tingley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book Mining Districts of Nevada written by Joseph V. Tingley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174481
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comstock Women written by Ronald M. James and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada’s most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women and politics, jobs, and ethnic groups. Their work goes far in refuting the exaggerated popular images of women in early mining towns as dance hall girls or prostitutes. Relying primarily on newspapers, court decisions, census records, as well as sparse personal diaries and records left by the woman, the essayists have resurrected the lives of the women who lived on the Comstock during the boom years.

Author : David J. Krause
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of the Keweenaw written by David J. Krause and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: region.

Author : Louis Janin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on Some of the Leading Mining Claims of the Whitewood Mining District, in the Black Hills, Lawrence County, Dakota written by Louis Janin and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: