Author: Nancy Dickmann
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1666342580
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
You step carefully along the shore of a river. A lumpy rock catches your eye. You pick it up and smile as you drop the lightweight rock into your bucket. When it's split open, you see beautiful blue crystals glittering in the light. It's a geode--just like you thought! Find out how geodes form, where they are found, and about some of the most amazing geode discoveries. Then learn how you can find and collect these marvelous mineral-filled rocks too!
Dig and Discover Geodes
Author: Nancy Dickmann
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1666342580
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
You step carefully along the shore of a river. A lumpy rock catches your eye. You pick it up and smile as you drop the lightweight rock into your bucket. When it's split open, you see beautiful blue crystals glittering in the light. It's a geode--just like you thought! Find out how geodes form, where they are found, and about some of the most amazing geode discoveries. Then learn how you can find and collect these marvelous mineral-filled rocks too!
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1666342580
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
You step carefully along the shore of a river. A lumpy rock catches your eye. You pick it up and smile as you drop the lightweight rock into your bucket. When it's split open, you see beautiful blue crystals glittering in the light. It's a geode--just like you thought! Find out how geodes form, where they are found, and about some of the most amazing geode discoveries. Then learn how you can find and collect these marvelous mineral-filled rocks too!
Digging Deep
Author: Jade Davenport
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868424049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Before the advent of the great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and minerals that has ever been discovered in one country. It was the discovery and exploitation of first diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, which transformed South Africa into the supreme industrialised power on the African continent. Here for the first time is the complete history of South Africa's phenomenal mineral revolution spanning a period of more than 150 years, from its earliest commercial beginnings to the present day, incorporating seven of the major commodities that have been exploited. Digging Deep describes the establishment and unparalleled growth of mining, tracing the history of the industry from its humble beginnings where copper was first mined on a commercial basis in Namaqualand in the Cape Colony in the early 1850s, to the discovery and exploitation of the country's other major mineral commodities. This is also the story of how mining gave rise to modern South Africa and how it compelled the country to develop and progress the way in which it did. It also incorporates the stories of the visionary men - Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Sammy Marks and Hans Merensky - who pioneered and shaped the development of the industry on which modern South Africa was built.
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868424049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Before the advent of the great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and minerals that has ever been discovered in one country. It was the discovery and exploitation of first diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, which transformed South Africa into the supreme industrialised power on the African continent. Here for the first time is the complete history of South Africa's phenomenal mineral revolution spanning a period of more than 150 years, from its earliest commercial beginnings to the present day, incorporating seven of the major commodities that have been exploited. Digging Deep describes the establishment and unparalleled growth of mining, tracing the history of the industry from its humble beginnings where copper was first mined on a commercial basis in Namaqualand in the Cape Colony in the early 1850s, to the discovery and exploitation of the country's other major mineral commodities. This is also the story of how mining gave rise to modern South Africa and how it compelled the country to develop and progress the way in which it did. It also incorporates the stories of the visionary men - Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Sammy Marks and Hans Merensky - who pioneered and shaped the development of the industry on which modern South Africa was built.
The Oak Ridge Kids
Author: M. M. Dockter
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1647020964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
THE OAK RIDGE KIDS By: M. M. Dockter Oak Ridge, Tennessee will always be home to me. Of all the numerous places as a child growing up, “The City Behind the Fence” is by far the most magical and wondrous. THE OAK RIDGE KIDS is a “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” adventure of countless stories from a fairy tale childhood that have been told and retold to our children and grandchildren.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1647020964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
THE OAK RIDGE KIDS By: M. M. Dockter Oak Ridge, Tennessee will always be home to me. Of all the numerous places as a child growing up, “The City Behind the Fence” is by far the most magical and wondrous. THE OAK RIDGE KIDS is a “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” adventure of countless stories from a fairy tale childhood that have been told and retold to our children and grandchildren.
Digging Gold Among the Rockies, Or, Exciting Adventures of Wild Camp Life in Leadville, Black Hills and the Gunnison Country
Author: George Thomas Ingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Time Team Dig Book
Author: Tim Taylor
Publisher: Doubleday UK
ISBN: 9781905026838
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 'Time Team Dig Book' explains all the key skills the budding archaeologist needs to know. From gaining permission for your dig and surveying the landscape, to locating and excavating your first trench; from identifying pottery, to your final report and the legacy of your dig.
Publisher: Doubleday UK
ISBN: 9781905026838
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 'Time Team Dig Book' explains all the key skills the budding archaeologist needs to know. From gaining permission for your dig and surveying the landscape, to locating and excavating your first trench; from identifying pottery, to your final report and the legacy of your dig.
Our gold colonies: a manual of the progress of gold-digging, cattle-rearing, corn-growing, sheep-breeding, and mining in the three chief provinces of Australia. Third edition, considerably enlarged, etc
Author: John CAPPER
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Arizona and Sonora
Author: Sylvester Mowry
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Discovering Rhodesian History
Author: R. W. Dickinson
Publisher:
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Category : Zimbabwe
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Zimbabwe
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Banca, and its Tin Stream-Works ... Translated from the Dutch ... by C. Le Neve Foster ... With two geological maps, and two woodcuts in the text
Author: P. H. van DIEST
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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