The Legacy Of American Copper Smelting
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The Legacy Of American Copper Smelting
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Author : Bode J. Morin
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2013-04-30
The Legacy Of American Copper Smelting written by Bode J. Morin and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Social Science categories.
Throughout world history, copper has been a significant metal for a vast number of cultures, from the oldest civilizations on record to the Bronze Age and Greek and Roman antiquity. Though replaced by iron as the primary metal for tools and weapons in ancient civilizations, copper found new resurgence in the nineteenth century when it was discovered to have particularly high thermal and electrical conductivity. Copper mining quickly escalated into a large-scale industry, and because of its vast reserves and innovative mining techniques, the United States seized the reins of global production with the opening of significant copper mines in Tennessee and Michigan in the 1840s and Montana in the 1870s. Copper-mining prosperity and America’s dominance of the industry came with a heavy environmental price, however. As rich copper deposits declined with increased mining efforts, large deposits of leaner ores—oftentimes less than one percent pure—had to be mined to keep pace with America’s technological thirst for copper. Processing such ore left an inordinate amount of industrial waste, such as tailings and slag deposits from the refining process and toxic materials from the ores themselves, and copper mining regions around the United States began to see firsthand the landscape degradation wrought by the industry. In The Legacy of American Copper Smelting, Bode J. Morin examines America’s three premier copper sites: Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, Tennessee’s Copper Basin, and Butte- Anaconda, Montana. Morin focuses on what the copper industry meant to the townspeople working in and around these three major sites while also exploring the smelters’ environmental effects. Each site dealt with pollution management differently, and each site had to balance an EPA-mandated cleanup effort alongside the preservation of a once-proud industry. Morin’s work sheds new light on the EPA’s efforts to utilize Superfund dollars and/or protocols to erase the environmental consequences of copper-smelting while locals and preservationists tried to keep memories of the copper industry alive in what were dying or declining post-industrial towns. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the American history of copper or heritage preservation studies, as well as historians of modern America, industrial technology, and the environment.
Modern American Methods Of Copper Smelting
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Author : Edward Dyer Peters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Modern American Methods Of Copper Smelting written by Edward Dyer Peters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Copper categories.
Modern American Methods Of Copper Smelting
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Author : Edward Dyer Peters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-03
Modern American Methods Of Copper Smelting written by Edward Dyer Peters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-03 with categories.
Profit
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Author : Mark Stoll
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2022-11-08
Profit written by Mark Stoll and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-08 with Science categories.
Profit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, often deploying brutally effective methods to discipline people to do the work needed. Historian Mark Stoll explains how capitalism supercharged this process and traces its many environmental consequences. The financial innovations of medieval Italy created trade networks that, with the European discovery of the Americas, made possible vast profits and sweeping cultural changes, to the detriment of millions of slaves and indigenous Americans; the industrial age united the world in trade and led to an energy revolution that changed lives everywhere. But when efficient production left society awash in goods, a new sort of capitalism, predicated on endless individual consumption, took its place. This story of incredible ingenuity and villainy begins in the Doge’s palace in medieval Venice and ends with Jeff Bezos aboard his own spacecraft. Mark Stoll’s revolutionary account places environmental factors at the heart of capitalism’s progress and reveals the long shadow of its terrible consequences.
Modern Copper Smelting
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Author : Edward Dyer Peters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Modern Copper Smelting written by Edward Dyer Peters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Copper categories.
Copper Smelting
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Author : Henry Marion Howe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Copper Smelting written by Henry Marion Howe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Copper categories.
Swansea Copper
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Author : Chris Evans
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-10-27
Swansea Copper written by Chris Evans and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The first book to detail the global impact of copper production in Swansea, Wales, and how a major technological shift transformed the British Isles into the world's most dynamic center of copper smelting. Eighteenth-century Swansea, Wales, was to copper what nineteenth-century Manchester was to cotton or twentieth-century Detroit to the automobile. Beginning around 1700, Swansea became the place where a revolutionary new method of smelting copper, later christened the Welsh Process, flourished. Using mineral coal as a source of energy, Swansea's smelters were able to produce copper in volumes that were quite unthinkable in the old, established smelting centers of central Europe and Scandinavia. After some tentative first steps, the Swansea district became a smelting center of European, then global, importance. Between the 1770s and the 1840s, the Swansea district routinely produced one-third of the world's smelted copper, sometimes more. In Swansea Copper, Chris Evans and Louise Miskell trace the history of copper making in Britain from the late seventeenth century, when the Welsh Process transformed Britain's copper industry, to the 1890s, when Swansea's reign as the dominant player in the world copper trade entered an absolute decline. Moving backward and forward in time, Evans and Miskell begin by examining the place of copper in baroque Europe, surveying the productive landscape into which Swansea Copper erupted and detailing the means by which it did so. They explain how Swansea copper achieved global dominance in the years between the Seven Years' War and Waterloo, explore new commercial regulations that allowed the importation to Britain of copper ore from around the world, and connect the rise of the copper trade to the rise of the transatlantic slave trade. They also examine the competing rise of the post–Civil War US copper industry. Whereas many contributions to global history focus on high-end consumer goods—Chinese ceramics, Indian cottons, and the like—Swansea Copper examines a producer good, a metal that played a key role in supporting new technologies of the industrial age, like steam power and electricity. Deftly showing how deeply mineral history is ingrained in the history of the modern world, Evans and Miskell present new research not just on Swansea itself but on the places its copper industry affected: mining towns in Cuba, Chile, southern Africa, and South Australia. This insightful book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the historical roots of globalization and the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon.
Modern American Methods Of Copper Smelting Third Edition Enlarged
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Author : Edward Dyer PETERS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Modern American Methods Of Copper Smelting Third Edition Enlarged written by Edward Dyer PETERS and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Restoring Layered Landscapes
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Author : Marion Hourdequin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2016
Restoring Layered Landscapes written by Marion Hourdequin and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
Restoring Layered Landscapes explores ecological restoration in complex landscapes, where ecosystems intertwine with important sociopolitical meanings. This volume considers restoration and interpretation of complex landscapes such as former industrial sites, asking how restoration can remain faithful to the past while anticipating the future in an era of unprecedented environmental change.
The City That Ate Itself
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Author : Brian James Leech
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2018-02-28
The City That Ate Itself written by Brian James Leech 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 2018-02-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.