Author: Charles N. AlpersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Mercury Contamination from Historic Gold Mining in California
Author: Charles N. AlpersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Abandoned Mines and Mercury in California
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Mercury Contamination in Fish from Northern California Lakes and Reservoirs
Author: California. Department of Water Resources. Northern DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fish as food
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Mercury Bioaccumulation in Fish in a Region Affected by Historic Gold Mining
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Author: Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program. Technical MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program: Contamination of hydrologic systems and related ecosystems
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program. Technical MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Rush
Author: Edward DolnickPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316280550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the first time ever-to imagine a future of ease and splendor. In The Rush, Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos. With an enthralling cast of characters and scenes of unimaginable wealth and desperate ruin, The Rush is a fascinating-and rollicking-account of the greatest treasure hunt the world has ever seen.
Nature, Choice and Social Power
Author: Erica SchoenbergerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135051577
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do. Using case studies from different environmental domains – earth and water, air and fire – Nature, Choice and Social Power examines the form that social power takes and how it can harm the environment and hinder our efforts to act in our own best interests. The case studies challenge conventional wisdoms about why gold is valuable, why the internal combustion engine triumphed, and when and why suburbs sprawled. The book shows how the power of individuals, the power of classes, the power of the market and the power of the state at different times and in different ways were critical to setting us on a path to environmental degradation. It also challenges conventional wisdoms about what we need to do now. Rather than reducing consumption and shrinking from outcomes we don’t want, it proposes growing towards outcomes we do want. We invested massive resources in creating our problems; it will take equally large investments to fix them. Written in a clear and engaging style, the book is underpinned with a political economy framework and addresses how we should understand our responsibility to the environment and to each other as individuals within a large and impersonal system.