The Legacy of American Copper Smelting - 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 The Legacy of American Copper Smelting write by Bode J. Morin. This book was released on 2013-04-30. The Legacy of American Copper Smelting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting - 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 Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting write by Edward Dyer Peters. This book was released on 1887. Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
MODERN AMER METHODS OF COPPER
MODERN AMER METHODS OF COPPER - 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 MODERN AMER METHODS OF COPPER write by Edward Dyer 1849-1917 Peters. This book was released on 2016-08-29. MODERN AMER METHODS OF COPPER available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting
Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting - 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 Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting write by Edward Dyer Peters. This book was released on 2023-07-18. Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive guide provides detailed technical knowledge of modern methods of copper smelting, including the technical processes, tools, and equipment used in the copper industry. It also covers the history of the American copper industry and its contribution to the industrialization of the nation. A valuable resource for researchers and professionals in the field of metallurgy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Copper for America
Copper for 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 Copper for America write by Charles K. Hyde. This book was released on 2016-03-04. Copper for America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive history of copper mining tells the full story of the industry that produces one of America's most important metals. The first inclusive account of U.S. copper in one volume, Copper for America relates the discovery and development of America's major copper-producing areas—the eastern United States, Tennessee, Michigan, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska—from colonial times to the present. Starting with the predominance of New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the early nineteenth century, Copper for America traces the industry's migration to Michigan in mid-century and to Montana, Arizona, and other western states in the late nineteenth century. The book also examines the U.S. copper industry's decline in the twentieth century, studying the effects of strong competition from foreign copper industries and unforeseen changes in the national and global copper markets. An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.
