Abajo Slim and the Spanish Silver Mine PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Abajo Slim and the Spanish Silver Mine PDF full book. Access full book title Abajo Slim and the Spanish Silver Mine by Morris Matthews. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Morris Matthews Publisher: ISBN: Category : Brothers Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Story of Keith Johnson, a thirteen year old boy and his older brother who are hired to guide an eccentric old man's search for a legendary silver mine in the four corners area of the American west
Author: Morris Matthews Publisher: ISBN: Category : Brothers Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Story of Keith Johnson, a thirteen year old boy and his older brother who are hired to guide an eccentric old man's search for a legendary silver mine in the four corners area of the American west
Author: Forrest Hypolite Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
This is the story of how the Spaniard mines Silver ore in the mountains and the price to pay for it. In the 16th century, the treasure within the Red Mountain's bowels swept Europeans into a state of frenzied excitement as galleon-loads of silver were shipped across the Atlantic to finance the religiously motivated wars in Europe. The mountain's redness symbolized the bloodshed by untold numbers of Indians coerced into laboring within its shafts, handling the treacherously noxious mercury without which little of the silver would have emerged from its vast treasure house. Today Potosi's habitats are amongst Bolivia's poorest. It's a story that continues to have relevance to our contemporary world, leading to shameful inequality, corruption, wanton disregard of the environment, and raises questions about the true nature of money we continue to wrestle with today.
Author: Harvey Swados Publisher: ISBN: Category : Mountains Languages : en Pages : 28
Book Description
A young boy searches in the mountains near the Hudson River for the source of the silver ore that he saw in the Spanish pirate's sack.
Author: Peter Bakewell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351917358 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 367
Book Description
This volume focuses on Latin America, since it was mainly there that Europeans (or their colonial descendants) actually engaged in mining in the 16th-19th centuries; elsewhere they traded metals mined by others. The principal metals produced, and in prodigious quantities, were silver, in the Spanish colonies, and gold, mainly in Brazil in the 18th century. These articles analyse the volume and pattern of production and the forms of labour found in mining. Particular attention is given to the technologies of extraction and refining, notably the adoption of the mercury amalgamation process: this had a major impact, driving down silver production costs; because the mercury mines were a royal monopoly, it also handed control to the Spanish crown.
Author: Eugene L. Conrotto Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486142051 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
Book Description
Handy guide to long-lost mines, rich veins of ore, silver lodes, buried treasure, other bonanzas awaiting discovery. Descriptions of each treasure, general locale, maps, more. 96 maps, over 50 other illustrations.
Author: Peter T. Flawn Publisher: ISBN: 9781681792675 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Dr. Peter Flawn, president-emeritus of the University of Texas, Austin, began life as a geologist. After a stint in World War II, he teamed up with another geologist, Philip W. Beckley, to explore and develop an old Spanish silver mine in a remote, mountainous area of the state of Durango, Mexico, known as the barancas. Beckley was a true soldier of fortune, flying in and out of the site with a small plane, the only way to reach the Santa Cruz mine. This personal memoir includes the decisions and actions of the Dougherty family of Beeville, Texas, the de facto owners of the mine properties, and others closely associated with the project both from Texas and Mexico. Beckley's tragic death, either by accident or by a bandit, eventually closed the project. Dr. Flawn retired after a career in university education and dedicated his memoirs to his old friend, describing their association from the period of 1966 to 1972. The author also provides a history of the Santa Cruz mine from 1908 until 1966, as told through reports and letters from a succession of mine managers.
Author: Morris Matthews
Author: Morris Matthews
Author: Forrest Hypolite
Author: Harvey Swados
Author: Peter Bakewell
Author: Eugene L. Conrotto
Author: P. J. Bakewell
Author: Hugo Armando Eyzaguirre
Author: American and Mexican Silver Mining Co
Author: Peter T. Flawn
Author: Henry Raup Wagner