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One Shot for Gold
Author: One Shot for Gold
Author: Eleanor Herz SwentPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1647790077
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Winner of the 2023 Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association! An account of the creation of a modern, environmentally sensitive mine as told by the people who developed and worked it. In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive gold mine in the twentieth century. Named the McLaughlin Mine, it produced about 3.4 million ounces of gold between 1985 and 2002. The mine was also one of the first attempts at creating a new full-scale mine in California after the advent of environmental regulations and the first to use autoclaves to extract gold from ore. One Shot for Gold traces the history of the McLaughlin Mine and how it transformed a community and an industry. This lively and detailed account is based largely on oral history interviews with a wide range of people associated with the mine, including Homestake executives, geologists, and engineers as well as local neighbors of the mine, officials from county governments, townspeople, and environmental activists. Their narratives— supported by thorough research into mining company documents, public records, newspaper accounts, and other materials—chronicle the mine from its very beginning to its eventual end and transformation into a designated nature reserve as part of the University of California Natural Reserve System. A mine created at the end of the twentieth century was vastly different from the mines of the Gold Rush. New regulations and concerns about the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a large mine in this remote and largely rural region of the state-required decisions at many levels. One Shot for Gold offers an engaging and accessible account of a modern gold mine and how it managed to exist in balance with the environment and the human community around it.
Asian Refugees in America
Author: Eleanor Herz SwentPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486325
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
When Eleanor Swent began teaching English as a Second Language in 1967 at a school for adults in Oakland, California, she soon learned that many of the Asian immigrants in her classes had remarkable tales to tell of struggles in their homelands and their efforts to make new lives in America. This oral history, based on interviews Swent conducted with her students over thirty years, documents the Asian immigrant experience as never before. Here are the stories of desperate individuals who swam to escape from China to Macao and Hong Kong; of Chinese daughters considered worthless by their families; of political refugees from Vietnam; of ethnic Chinese who fled by boat from Vietnam; of refugees from the genocide in Cambodia. As these remarkable new Americans learn different words and customs, they also enlarge our national vision, enriching our culture while assuring us that human dignity can rise above terrible circumstances.
Shot on Gold
Author: Jaci BurtonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399585168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In the new Play-by-Play novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Final Score, opposites attract when a figure skater and hockey player lace up their skates--and go for the gold... Will "Mad Dog" Madigan is making his second trip to the Winter Games, and he couldn't be happier. Hockey is his life and playing for the U.S. team is a privilege. Then he meets U.S. figure skater Amber Sloane. She's beautiful, ambitious and driven--everything Will desires in a woman. He would love to show Amber how hot life off the ice can be. Amber has skated her entire life, sacrificing everything in the hopes of one day winning gold. Now she's competing for the third and final time. She intends to win, and nothing's going to get in her way--until she meets Will. He's an irresistible charmer, and before long Amber is wondering if this sexy hockey player is the perfect guy to show her some moves outside the rink. But after all the medals have been awarded, Will and Amber will have to decide if what they have together is just a fling or a real shot at true love.
Where to Prospect for Gold in Alaska Without Getting Shot!
Author: Ron WendtPublisher:
ISBN: 9781886574120
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This guide reveals where you can pan, dredge, detect, or sluice for gold legally, and without hassle.
Sacramento's Gold Rush Saloons
Author: Special Collections of the Sacramento Public LibraryPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625846258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As early as 1839, Sacramento, California, was home to one of the most enduring symbols of the American West: the saloon. From the portability of the Stinking Tent to the Gold Rush favorite El Dorado Gambling Saloon to the venerable Sutter's Fort, Sacramento saloons offered not simply a nip of whiskey and a round of monte but also operated as polling place, museum, political hothouse, vigilante court and site of some of the nineteenth century's worst violence. From librarian James Scott and the Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library comes a fascinating history of Sacramento saloons featuring the advent of all types of gaming, the rise of local alcohol production and the color and guile of some of the region's most compelling personalities..
A Shot at History
Author: ABHINAV BINDRA. ROHIT BRIJNATHPublisher: Harper Sport India
ISBN: 9789352645756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Abhinav Bindra's journey to become the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold is an example of a single-minded quest for perfection. Shattered by his failure at the 2004 Athens Olympics, he changed as a shooter: he became an athlete bent on redemp
Educart CBSE Class 9 SCIENCE One Shot Question Bank 2024-25 (Updated for 2025 Exam)
Author: EducartPublisher: Educart
ISBN: 9360549169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
What You Get: Competency-based Q’sPrevious Year Q’s Educart CBSE Class 9 SCIENCE One Shot Question Bank 2024-25 (Updated for 2025 Exam) Strictly Based on 22nd March, 2024 CBSE SyllabusImportant Q’s from NCERT Textbook and Exemplars.Extra Competency-based Questions based on Revised PatternPremium Study Material including Free Papers from all CBSE Schools. Why choose this book? India’s first-ever book to provide structured chapter-wise learning.
Chain of Gold
Author: Cassandra ClarePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481431889
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
"A brand-new series in the Shadowhunter world."--Cover.
Ashes of Gold
Author: J. EllePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534470719
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Half god and half human, Rue has made a vow to restore the magic that the Chancellor and the Grays have stolen from the Ghizoni and take back their land; she has more fully embraced her identity among the people of Yiyo Peak, but she is also from East Row in Houston, and girls from East Row do not give in to oppressors.
