Author: Annie D. TallentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
The Black Hills
Author: Annie D. TallentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
The National Magazine
Author: Nuggets to Neutrinos
Author: Steven T. MitchellPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456839470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The Black Hills Engineer
Author: Engineering and Mining Journal
Author: Compressed Air Magazine
Author: History of the 87th Mountain Infantry, Italy, 1945
Author: United States. Army. 87th Mountain Infantry RegimentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Go Big or Go Home
Author: Will HobbsPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060741414
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota. . . . Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever! Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found. Professor Rip Ripley from the museum in Hill City wants to study a sliver of it in search of extraterrestrial bacteria. He's hoping to discover the first proof of life beyond Earth, a momentous breakthrough for the new science of astrobiology. During a wild week of extreme bicycling, fishing, and caving, Brady and Quinn battle their rivals, the notorious Carver boys, for possession of the meteorite. With each new day, Brady is discovering he's able to do strange and wonderful feats that shouldn't be possible. At the same time, he's developing some frightening symptoms. Could he be infected with long-dormant microbes from space? Is Fred a prize or a menace?
Herman P. Chilson Western Americana Collection
Author: I.D. Weeks LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Dakota
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
One Shot for Gold
Author: Eleanor Herz SwentPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1647790077
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Winner of the 2023 Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association! An account of the creation of a modern, environmentally sensitive mine as told by the people who developed and worked it. In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive gold mine in the twentieth century. Named the McLaughlin Mine, it produced about 3.4 million ounces of gold between 1985 and 2002. The mine was also one of the first attempts at creating a new full-scale mine in California after the advent of environmental regulations and the first to use autoclaves to extract gold from ore. One Shot for Gold traces the history of the McLaughlin Mine and how it transformed a community and an industry. This lively and detailed account is based largely on oral history interviews with a wide range of people associated with the mine, including Homestake executives, geologists, and engineers as well as local neighbors of the mine, officials from county governments, townspeople, and environmental activists. Their narratives— supported by thorough research into mining company documents, public records, newspaper accounts, and other materials—chronicle the mine from its very beginning to its eventual end and transformation into a designated nature reserve as part of the University of California Natural Reserve System. A mine created at the end of the twentieth century was vastly different from the mines of the Gold Rush. New regulations and concerns about the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a large mine in this remote and largely rural region of the state-required decisions at many levels. One Shot for Gold offers an engaging and accessible account of a modern gold mine and how it managed to exist in balance with the environment and the human community around it.