Author: Ron WendtPublisher:
ISBN: 9781886574120
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This guide reveals where you can pan, dredge, detect, or sluice for gold legally, and without hassle.
Where to Prospect for Gold in Alaska Without Getting Shot!
Author: Ron WendtPublisher:
ISBN: 9781886574120
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This guide reveals where you can pan, dredge, detect, or sluice for gold legally, and without hassle.
Placer Mining in Alaska
Author: Bruce I. ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Prospecting for Gold in the United States
Author: Placer-mining Methods and Costs in Alaska
Author: Norman L. WimmlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Treadwell Gold
Author: Sheila KellyPublisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231028
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and when those caved in and flooded in the early decades of the twentieth century, Treadwell sank into relative obscurity. Treadwell Gold presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society. The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaskan history or the romance of gold mining’s past.
Methods and Costs of Gravel and Placer Mining in Alaska
Author: Chester Wells PuringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Nature of Gold
Author: Kathryn MorsePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination. In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America’s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners’ compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as “gateway to the Klondike.” A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle. The drama of the miners’ journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West’s last great gold rush.
Placer Mining in Alaska
Author: Donald J. CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Provides historical summary of placer mining in Alaska as well as current mining methods and technologies.
Alluvial Mining
Author: Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain)Publisher: Elsevier Applied Science
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Gold Miner's Guide to Easy Pickens in Alaska
Author: Richard L. LamprightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description