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 444 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.
Download or read book Mercury Contamination from Historic Gold Mining in California written by Charles N. Alpers and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mercury in California written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Repositories of Mercury of California written by Georges Rolland and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metallurgy of Mercury in California written by Georges Rolland and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mercury Contamination from Historic Gold Mining in California written by Charles N. Alpers and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatment of Mercury in North California written by Thomas Egleston and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rush for Riches written by J. S. Holliday and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Download or read book Mining California written by Andrew C. Isenberg and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 253 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.
Download or read book Mercury in the California Environment July 1970 July 1971 written by California. Interagency Committee on Environmental Mercury and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Abandoned Mines and Mercury in California Scholar s Choice Edition written by United States Congress House of Represen and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 108 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book From Pooyi to the New Almaden Mercury Mine written by Mary L. Coomes and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book MERCURY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WATERS INPUTS DISTRIBUTION AND FATE written by EGANHOUSE RP and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mercury Contamination From Historic Gold Mining In California U S Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS 061 00 CORRECTION written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
