Download or read book The City That Ate Itself written by Brian James Leech and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.
Download or read book Butte s Berkeley Pit written by Pat Kearney and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butte, Montana was one of the most productive, but unsafe underground hardrock mining operations in the world. All that started to change in 1955 when shovels started digging the Berkeley Pit. The new mining venture became the largest open pit truck operation in the world. The massive complex produced millions of pounds of copper, silver, gold, zinc and other minerals. The Berkeley Pit created jobs, prosperity, safer working conditions and a new lease on life for the richest hill on earth. During that same time, the Berkeley Pit completely changed the way of life in Butte. The ethnic neighborhoods that made the city so unique were wiped away by the enormous shovels and trucks from the Pit operation. The same thing almost took place to the historic business district. The unions became bigger, more aggressive and much harder to control for the Anaconda Company. The Berkeley Pit led to massive amounts of waste rock that changed the skyline. In the end, the Berkeley Pit helped create the largest Superfund clean up site in the world. This is the story of how one single event, the development of an open pit mining operation, forever changed one community, Butte, Montana. This is the story of Butte's Berkeley Pit.
Download or read book The Berkeley Pit written by Fritz Daily and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fritz Daily, a former Butte lawmaker who lives in the Butte, Montana area, has spent years trying to move the environmental cleanup of the Berkeley Pit forward. This is his report on his research into the issue. He starts off with an explanation of the Superfund process. Then he talks about the environmental and legal issues involved in the current ecology of the Berkeley Pit and the Butte area. He supplements this with newspaper articles, full-color pictures of the pit and it's surrounding area over time, statistics, documents, letters, and a synopsis of the Natural Resource Damage Lawsuit and Settlement against the Atlantic Richfield/British Petroleum Company vs. the State of Montana.
Download or read book Butte Mine Flooding and the Berkeley Pit written by John L. Sonderegger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Berkeley Pit written by Dorothy Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry's first poem describes his nightmare, the Berkeley Pit, which in 1962, gouged the heart out of his hometown, Butte, Montana. The pit mine's namesake, Berkeley, California, becomes his dream of hope. He arrives there in the late 1960s, as political turmoil and hope reach a peak, from which many dreams tumble, including Harry's.
Download or read book Toxic Tourism written by Bridget R. Barry and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Affecting the Geochemistry of the Berkeley Pit Butte Montana for the Butte Addition to the Silver Bow Creek Butte NPL Site Butte Montana written by Camp, Dresser & McKee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking for Betty MacDonald written by Paula Becker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald’s vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonald’s archives, including materials never before seen by any researcher. Looking for Betty MacDonald, a biography of this endearing Northwest storyteller, reveals the story behind the memoirs and the difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lr6iVK4zWk
Download or read book Mass Destruction written by Timothy J. LeCain and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: Mass Destruction is the compelling story of Daniel Jackling and the development of open-pit hard rock mining, its role in the wiring of an electrified America, and its devastating environmental effects. This new method of mining, complimenting the mass production and mass consumption that came to define the "American way of life"in the early twentieth century, promised infinite supplies of copper and other natural resources. LeCain deftly analyzes how open-pit mining continues to adversely effect the environment and how, as the world begins to rival American resource consumption, no viable alternatives have emerged.
Download or read book Introduction to Embedded Systems Second Edition written by Edward Ashford Lee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the engineering principles of embedded systems, with a focus on modeling, design, and analysis of cyber-physical systems. The most visible use of computers and software is processing information for human consumption. The vast majority of computers in use, however, are much less visible. They run the engine, brakes, seatbelts, airbag, and audio system in your car. They digitally encode your voice and construct a radio signal to send it from your cell phone to a base station. They command robots on a factory floor, power generation in a power plant, processes in a chemical plant, and traffic lights in a city. These less visible computers are called embedded systems, and the software they run is called embedded software. The principal challenges in designing and analyzing embedded systems stem from their interaction with physical processes. This book takes a cyber-physical approach to embedded systems, introducing the engineering concepts underlying embedded systems as a technology and as a subject of study. The focus is on modeling, design, and analysis of cyber-physical systems, which integrate computation, networking, and physical processes. The second edition offers two new chapters, several new exercises, and other improvements. The book can be used as a textbook at the advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level and as a professional reference for practicing engineers and computer scientists. Readers should have some familiarity with machine structures, computer programming, basic discrete mathematics and algorithms, and signals and systems.
Download or read book The Flooding of Butte s Underground Mines and the Berkeley Pit written by Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain written by Zaretta Hammond and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation—until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. The book includes: Information on how one’s culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships Ten “key moves” to build students’ learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners Prompts for action and valuable self-reflection
Download or read book Enacting the Corporation written by Marina Welker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Against the backdrop of an emerging Corporate Social Responsibility movement and changing state dynamics in Indonesia, she shows how people enact the mining corporation in multiple ways: as an ore producer, employer, patron, promoter of sustainable development, religious sponsor, auditable organization, foreign imperialist, and environmental threat. Rather than assuming that corporations are monolithic, profit-maximizing subjects, Welker turns to anthropological theories of personhood to develop an analytic model of the corporation as an unstable collective subject with multiple authors, boundaries, and interests. Enacting the Corporation demonstrates that corporations are constituted through continuous struggles over relations with—and responsibilities to—local communities, workers, activists, governments, contractors, and shareholders.
Download or read book Work Song written by Ivan Doig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] novel that best expresses the American spirit." –The Chicago Tribune “If America was a melting pot, Butte seemed to be its boiling point,” observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher and inveterate charmer who stole readers’ hearts in The Whistling Season. A decade later, he steps off the train and into the copper mining capital of the world in its jittery 1919 heyday. While the riches of “the Richest Hill on Earth” may elude him, once again a colorful cast of local characters seek him out. Before long, Morrie is caught up in the clash between the ironfisted Anaconda Mining Company, radical “outside agitators,” and the beleaguered miners. As tensions build aboveground and below, Morrie finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one, and Ivan Doig proves yet again why he’s reigning king of Western fiction.
Download or read book Presentation Zen written by Garr Reynolds and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
Download or read book Metal Recovery and Reuse written by Jeffrey W. Allen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berkeley Pit, located in Butte, Montana, is one of the largest EPA Superfund sites. The water in the Pit accumulates at a rate of approximately 5 million gallons per day. The water contains substantial quantities of valuable, yet toxic, metals, such as copper, zinc, manganese, and aluminum, as well as iron. This work details a treatment option for remediating the Berkeley Pit by separating and recovering the individual metals. First, a review of metal precipitations and applications is covered. Then, a series of batch experiments was performed that determined optimal pH for maximum metal recovery. Other factors, such as reactor design and temperature, were not found to be significant. After obtaining the recovery relations, a continuously operated process was constructed that treated Berkeley Pit water. The process was able to remove aluminum, copper, iron, manganese, and zinc from solution. A copper and zinc sulfide precipitate with 95% purity was produced as well as a 90% pure aluminum hydroxide precipitate. Purity of ferrous sulfide precipitate varied in the range of 54% to 95%, depending on the extent of coprecipitation of manganese resulting from localized regions of high pH around the injection point of potassium hydroxide solution. Overall, the treatment process was able to remove more than 95% of aluminum, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, nickel and zinc with some removal of calcium, chromium and magnesium. In addition to recovering the metals, attempts were made to synthesize goethite, a high-value iron oxide. The reactor was able to produce goethite from ferrous sulfate solutions but produced spherical goethite particles using Berkeley Pit water. Several SEM images are included that show the products obtained.
Download or read book Lela Rhoades Pit River Woman written by Molly Curtis and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lela Rhoades has a voice so sharp, so funny, warm, and honest, that the stories of her life and the traditions of her parents will barely sit still on the page. As told to Molly Curtis in the 1970's, this memoir takes us back into a world where men chased mother grizzlies out of their dens for their meat, where manzanita berries were ground up into sugar and houses built with the door right in the middle of the roof. It was an intricate, complex life that was unknown to the strangers that would take over the land. For all of her recollections, old recipes, and legends, this is also a story of transition for Lela Rhoades, her Achumawi people, and for Native California in general. Here, Rhoades walks the line between tradition and change, watching the land and hunting rights of her people vanish, telling creation stories that blend both Coyote and Jesus, and recounting her marriage to a white rancher. Come, sit down at the feet of Lela Rhoades, and listen to the strength and beauty of her world. "There was an aristocratic presence, an aristocratic aura about the heavy, elder lady, Lela Grant Rhoades, slowly rocking in her chair as she quietly embroidered a delicate pattern, silver needles flashing in the fading evening light, black-rimmed glasses resting on her nose a mysterious aristocratic something, like she knew many secrets or something more necessary than life. I thought of Grandmother Spider creating her web with great confidence." From the Foreword by Darryl Babe Wilson
