Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Mineral and Water Resources of California: Mineral resources
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Gold
Author: Mary HillPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520236807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"This is a very readable account of gold mining in California from the earliest days to the present and of its economic, social, cultural, and literary consequences. It should provide many evenings of enjoyable and informative reading."—Paul C. Bateman, U.S. Geological Survey, retired "Mary Hill's first-rate narrative is a remarkable synthesis. She skillfully weaves together the geology, history, and romance of the gold story in a lively and informative style. Anyone interested in California history, especially the Gold Rush, will relish this book."—Martin Ridge, Huntington Library
California Mines and Minerals
Author: California Miners' AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Mining California
Author: Andrew C. IsenbergPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
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.
Mineral Information Service
Author: Borate Minerals of Death Valley, Mojave Desert, and Nevada: Annotated Bibliography
Author: Rick O. RittenbergPublisher: Lightning Press
ISBN: 0998563803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
An annotated bibliography of over 2,050 references associated with borate minerals from Death Valley, Mojave Desert, and Nevada. Sources include journal articles, papers, conference proceedings, books, book chapters, and other literature published from the 1860s into 2024. The bibliography is divided into 16 chapters: History, Boron and Borates, Chemistry and Crystal Structure, Mineralogy, Geology, California, Death Valley, Searles Lake, Mojave Desert, Kramer, Calico, Fort Cady, Tick Canyon, Ventura, Nevada, and Annual Reviews. Contains appendices of supplemental information on borate minerals, color photographs, and an alphabetical index of authors. 638 pages. Key words: borax, colemanite, kernite, probertite, and ulexite.
Minerals Yearbook
Author: Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Introduction to the Study of Minerals
Author: Austin Flint RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineralogy
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A Great Collection of Original Source Material Relating to the Early West and the Far West
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Old
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description