Download or read book Quicksilver Mining in Sonoma County written by Joe Pelanconi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1870s, a quicksilver mining boom took hold of Sonoma County, California. Claims were staked, and a rowdy camp took shape in Pine Flat as farmers traded plows for picks and miners answered the siren call of cinnabar. In this compelling account, historian Joe Pelanconi relates the development of the twenty-mile Cinnabar Mining District. Pelanconi shares intriguing stories like those of the Donner Party survivor, Chinese laborers who worked the mines in danger of mercury poisoning and the two brothers who were leading citizens of the district and purported victims of murder. Delve into Sonoma County's heritage and a lost era when eccentrics and dreamers sought shining flasks of riches in the Mayacamas Mountains above today's wine country.
Download or read book Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the New Almaden District Santa Clara County California written by Edgar Herbert Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the State Mineralogist for the Year Ending written by California State Mining Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the State Mineralogist written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioner of General Land Office Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year written by United States. General Land Office and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Selected Bibliography on Quicksilver 1811 1953 written by M. Jane Ebner and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the United States written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year Ended written by United States. General Land Office and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mercury Potential of the United States written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Department of the Interior with Accompanying Documents written by United States. Dept. of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mines and Mineral Resources of the Counties of Colusa Glenn Lake Marin Napa Solano Sonoma Yolo written by Walter Wadsworth Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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Download or read book Quicksilver Resources of California written by Walter Wadsworth Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
