Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Mining Debris in California Rivers
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Mining Debris in California Rivers. Report Upon a Project to Protect the Navigable Waters of California from the Effects of Hydraulic Mining, by G. H. Mendell
Author: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers StaffPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598279347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Adjustment of the Yuba River, California, to the Influx of Hydraulic Mining Debris, 1849-1979
Author: Lori Lynn AdlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Mining Debris in California Rivers
Author: Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Hydraulic-mining Débris in the Sierra Nevada
Author: Grove Karl GilbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"Considered a landmark in California gold mining history. Public indignation against spoilage of rich agricultural land and clogging of watercourses by debris generated by hydraulic mining in the Sierra foothills led to the winning of a major battle against the miners ... [The author] examines the need to find a solution to the debris from the mining operations"--Bookdealer's description.
Mining Debris in California Rivers
Author: Augustus Jesse BowiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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.
The California Debris Commission
Author: Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Hydraulic Mining and Debris Control
Author: Report of the Hydraulic Mining Commission Upon the Feasibility of the Resumption of Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: California. Hydraulic Mining CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description