Mining In America
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Mining North America
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Author : John R. McNeill
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-07-03
Mining North America written by John R. McNeill and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-03 with History categories.
Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly relied on mining to produce much of their material and cultural life. From cell phones and computers to cars, roads, pipes, pans, and even wall tile, mineral-intensive products have become central to North American societies. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and the human societies within it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, forests leveled, and the consequences of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North America. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, Mining North America examines these developments. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while bringing mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history. Taken all together, the essays in this book make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies.
Mining In The Americas
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Author : Helmut Waszkis
language : en
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-14
Mining In The Americas written by Helmut Waszkis and has been published by Woodhead Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-14 with Science categories.
Twenty years of work went into the writing of this: the first book to cover the history of mines and mining in North and South America. The text is enlivened by sketches of many miners the author got to know over the decades.
Changing Mines In America
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Author : Peter Goin
language : en
Publisher: Center for Amer Places Incorporated
Release Date : 2004
Changing Mines In America written by Peter Goin and has been published by Center for Amer Places Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Photography categories.
Most Americans today view mines as little more than ugly scars on the landscape, places with no connection to an American way of life. This creative new work will force many to rethink that impression: after an introduction to the history of mining in America, the authors present eight visual and historical essays about diverse sites across the nation, each of which reveals mines not simply as physical degradations but as evolving cultural artifacts of the American landscape.
Industry In Transition
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Author : Alistair MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: International Institute for Sustainable Development = Institut international du développement durable
Release Date : 2002
Industry In Transition written by Alistair MacDonald and has been published by International Institute for Sustainable Development = Institut international du développement durable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
Mining America
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Author : Duane A. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Mining America written by Duane A. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Science categories.
An Inquiry Into The Plans Progress And Policy Of The American Mining Companies
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Author : Benjamin Disraeli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1825
An Inquiry Into The Plans Progress And Policy Of The American Mining Companies written by Benjamin Disraeli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1825 with Mine management categories.
A History Of Mining In Latin America
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Author : Kendall W. Brown
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2012-03-16
A History Of Mining In Latin America written by Kendall W. Brown and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-16 with History categories.
For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable suffering. New World bullion stimulated the formation of the first world economy but at the same time it had profound consequences for labor, as mine operators and refiners resorted to extreme forms of coercion to secure workers. In many cases the environment also suffered devastating harm. All of this occurred in the name of wealth for individual entrepreneurs, companies, and the ruling states. Yet the question remains of how much economic development mining managed to produce in Latin America and what were its social and ecological consequences. Brown's focus on the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin America is a well-written and accessible study that is the first to span the colonial era to the present.
Seeing Underground
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Author : Eric C. Nystrom
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2014-04-04
Seeing Underground written by Eric C. Nystrom and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-04 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode, were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground, Nystrom argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States, the development of maps and models gave power to a new visual culture and allowed mining engineers to advance their profession, gaining authority over mining operations from the miners themselves. Starting in the late nineteenth century, mining engineers developed a new set of practices, artifacts, and discourses to visualize complex, pitch-dark three-dimensional spaces. These maps and models became necessary tools in creating and controlling those spaces. They made mining more understandable, predictable, and profitable. Nystrom shows that this new visual culture was crucial to specific developments in American mining, such as implementing new safety regulations after the Avondale, Pennsylvania fire of 1869 killed 110 men and boys; understanding complex geology, as in the rich ores of Butte, Montana; and settling high-stakes litigation, such as the Tonopah, Nevada, Jim Butler v. West End lawsuit, which reached the US Supreme Court. Nystrom demonstrates that these neglected artifacts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have much to teach us today. The development of a visual culture helped create a new professional class of mining engineers and changed how mining was done. Seeing Undergound is the winner of the 2015 Mining History Association’s Clark Spence Award for the best book on mining history.
Hard Places
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Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 1997-09-01
Hard Places written by Richard V. Francaviglia and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-01 with History categories.
Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the interconnections among all of America's major mining districts. With a style as bold as the landscape he reads and with photographs to match, he interprets the major forces that have shaped the architecture, design, and topography of mining areas. Covering many different types of mining and mining locations, he concludes that mining landscapes have come to symbolize the turmoil between what our society elects to view as two opposing forces: culture and nature.
United Mining And Development Company Of America
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Author : United Mining and Development Company of America
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
United Mining And Development Company Of America written by United Mining and Development Company of America and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Mineral industries categories.