Mining North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mining North America write by John R. McNeill. This book was released on 2017-07-03. Mining North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.
History of Gold Mining in the United States
History of Gold Mining in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Gold Mining in the United States write by R. A. F. Penrose. This book was released on 1912. History of Gold Mining in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gold Mines in North Carolina
Gold Mines in North Carolina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gold Mines in North Carolina write by John Hairr. This book was released on 2004. Gold Mines in North Carolina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first gold discovery in the United States occurred in 1799 when young Conrad Reed went fishing in Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The 17-pound nugget he found was used by his family as a doorstop until they figured out what the strange rock was. This chance discovery set off the first gold rush in the nation's history. For more than a century, men extracted gold from the rolling hills and valleys of the North Carolina piedmont, as well as from the high peaks and rugged mountains of the western part of the state. Prior to the California Gold Rush of 1849, North Carolina led the nation in production of this precious metal and was the largest gold-producing state in the South well into the 20th century.
Gold and Silver
Gold and Silver - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gold and Silver write by Walter Richard Crane. This book was released on 1908. Gold and Silver available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gold Mining in North Carolina
Gold Mining in North Carolina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gold Mining in North Carolina write by Richard F. Knapp. This book was released on 1999. Gold Mining in North Carolina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County. This book traces the history of gold mining in North Carolina from that discovery to the twentieth century. The authors present case histories of John Reed and his mine and of the Gold Hill mining district in Rowan County, along with material on other gold mining activity in the state.
