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 California Journal of Mines and Geology Quarterly Chapter of State Mineralogist s Report written by California. Division of Mines and Mining and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1917/18 consists of three monographs by E. MacBoyle issued separately as Mines and mineral resources of Nevada County. Mines and mineral resources of Plumas County. Mines and mineral resources of Sierra County.

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 Chapter of Report of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau written by California State Mining Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Mines and Minerals written by California Miners' Association and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Register of Mines and Minerals Inyo County California written by California State Mining Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Golden State written by Marlene Smith-Baranzini and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.

Download or read book Report of the Hydraulic Mining Commission Upon the Feasibility of the Resumption of Hydraulic Mining in California written by California. Hydraulic Mining Commission and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mining Laws United States and California written by California and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book We the Miners written by Andrea G. McDowell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.

Download or read book Chapter of Report of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Report California Division of Mines written by California. Division of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Gold written by Rodman Wilson Paul and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1965 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mining in California written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preliminary Report California State Mining Bureau written by California State Mining Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mine in the Sky written by Joseph M. Kurtak and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going back over a period of 100 years, Mine in the Sky tells of the events leading up to the discovery and development of the great tungsten ore bodies at Pine Creek, California. Mine in the Sky recounts a history shaped by world politics, the ups and downs of metals demand, and economic survival through technological innovations. Using personal recollections, the book portrays the lives of the people who made the place what it was and found a home and sense of community in dramatic Pine Creek Canyon. This account is invaluable for mining historians as well as those interested in the history of the Eastern Sierra and the Owens Valley of California.

Download or read book Report of the State Mineralogist written by California State Mining Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: