Mining category: 116 books
by William Ascarza
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Southeastern Arizona has one of the most diverse mining localities in the state. Towns such as Bisbee, Clifton, Globe, Miami, Ray, Silverbell, and Superior have earned reputations as premier metal producers that are most notably known for their copper. Other mining towns that have made their marks in...
To Save the Land and People
A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment. Here, Chad Montrie examines the twentieth-century movement to outlaw surface mining in Appalachia,...
Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom
Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
Twenty years after the decline of the magnificent Comstock Lode, Nevada’s prosperity and population had diminished to such a degree that some popular articles questioned whether to deprive Nevada of her statehood. Then in the spring of 1900, a miner discovered silver in south-central Nevada. This...
Historical Archaeology in the Cortez Mining District
Under the Nevada Giant
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
The Cortez Hills Expansion Project archaeological excavations uncovered a wealth of information about the Cortez Mining District, from its beginning in 1863 to the government-mandated end to the mining of precious metals in the district during World War II. Obermayr and McQueen use archaeological...
Strictly Mining Boardroom Vol. 2
A practitioner's guide for next generation directors
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
The first volume of *Strictly (Mining) Boardroom *was so well received that Dr Allan Trench was easily persuaded to compile a second volume, this time with the help of John Sykes. With the punchy subtitle of 'A Practitioner’s Guide for Next Generation Directors', the new book contains a comprehensive...
Gold-Mining Boomtown
People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made...
Gold!
Madness, Murder, and Mayhem in the Colorado Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
There are few books specifically on the history of gold and mining in Colorado, none on its current culture and almost none on modern day treasure hunters.
Will appeal to Reality TV fans interested in Gold Mining and History. Celebs profiled in the book include: Chad Watkins, gold prospector featured...
Slate Mining in the Lake District
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls, heathered moorlands and Lakeland farms do. A significant number of local families currently living in Lake District villages has had some connections with the slate industry in the...
by Ken Wain
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The culmination of some forty years of research sees Ken Wain tell the story of the mining industry in this part of South Yorkshire. He tells the life stories of the many collieries from Chesterfield to Sheffield. With some 900 shafts in Chesterfield alone, and hundreds in the Sheffield area, Ken...
Riding the High Wire
Aerial Mine Tramways in the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs...
Mine-Field
The Dark Side of Australia's Resources Rush
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
It is not a case of governments and companies putting royalties and profits before people; instead it is as though people don’t matter at all …
In Mine-Field, Paul Cleary counts the true cost of Australia’s mineral addiction.
Whether it be coal-seam gas, LNG or coal mega-mines,...
The Roar and the Silence
A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far...
Bodie’s Gold
Tall Tales and True History from a California Mining Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie's largest boom ended just over twenty years later, but the town survived into the twentieth century supported by a few small but steady mines. Mining ended with World War II. What remained of...
by Martin Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper. It was this invention which brought back to life the rich copper-silver mines of...