Author: Philip Ross May
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The method of hydraulic mining was developed in California to work low grade gravels while searching for gold. It was used from 1853 to 1884. The method was adopted in mining for other minerals.
Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Philip Ross May
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The method of hydraulic mining was developed in California to work low grade gravels while searching for gold. It was used from 1853 to 1884. The method was adopted in mining for other minerals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The method of hydraulic mining was developed in California to work low grade gravels while searching for gold. It was used from 1853 to 1884. The method was adopted in mining for other minerals.
Report of the Hydraulic Mining Commission Upon the Feasibility of the Resumption of Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: California. Hydraulic Mining Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Augustus Jesse Bowie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Powell Greenland
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Augustus Jesse Bowie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375511841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375511841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Augustus Jesse Bowie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Augustus Jesse Bowie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Thorough treatise on hydraulic mining.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Thorough treatise on hydraulic mining.
A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Mining California
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.