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Books : Science : Earth Sciences : Prospecting & Mining
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"The Next Bend in the River - Maine Mining Adventures" tells those who enjoy the outdoors how and where to find gold in Maine. There are instructions how to pan and sluice, tips on dredging and dowsing, and a list of the better streams and locations where gold can be traced. Also, we are told about the mining boom and bust in the late eighteen hundreds, along with the colorful hoaxes and their flamboyan creators.
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Social history at its best. Whether you're from Anaconda, Montana or Timbuktu, you'll want to read this engrossing story. It is local history with a universal flair. From the perspective of a small smelter town in the west, it projects a broad historical chronicle of America during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. Its description, in comprehensive detail, of the founding and growth of this town in Montana's Deer Lodge Valley brings to life the social, political, ethnic and religious issues of the age. It has at once local color and broad historical sweep, very skillfully weaving the town's growth with the national and international events which influenced it. It not only provides an engaging tale of the town's early history, but fills a real need for those wanting a detailed look at environmental issues, turn of the century industrial development and the labor movement in the western United States.
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Images of the San Juans - Historic Selections from the Ruth and Marvin Gregory Photograph Collection
Step back in time and see how prospectors, miners, merchants, investors, and families settled the mining towns in the gold and silver-rich San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Telluride, Ouray, and Silverton are well portrayed, as well as many of the smaller towns that are now just crumbling piles of stone and lumber. P. David Smith has also added lengthy captions that explain and point out the particulars of each photograph. This book will really give you an idea of the way it was over 100 years ago in the San Juan Mountains. Featuring more than 250 rare and historical photographs from the private collection of Ruth and Marvin Gregory, this book allows readers to venture into the mines, ride the railroads, and share the catastrophes and celebrations of yesterday s West. Including well-researched and illuminating narratives, Images of the San Juans Revised, is the true life story of an awe-inspiring area, its inhabitants, and an ever-enduring pioneer spirit.
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An in depth look at mining in Silverton, Colorado with excellent photos, maps, diagrams, and interviews with old timers.
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Tales of the Mine Country is a collection of memories from the author's childhood in the Pennsylvania coal region of Shamokin during the 1930's. Some tales are true, some only partly so, but they all are authentic oral history.
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Bright-colored stones found in ancient riverbeds or on desolate desert floors have often had a more lasting influence on human destiny than the words or actions or contemporary military, ecclesiastic, or political rulers. Some stones were powerful because of their supposed mystical properties; others acquired such value that they financed armies and changed the balance of power among nations. This absorbing and often astonishing history of legendary gems is told with style and wit by expert gemmologist Eric Bruton. Amid legends and intrigue are hard facts about gems—classification, valuation, and engraving.
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Have you ever wanted to look for gold in Alaska but weren’t sure how to do it? Alaska Gold is a first hand, how-to, book on successful recreation gold mining in Alaska. Alaska Gold covers every aspect of Alaskan prospecting from panning gold to suction dredging, metal detecting, sluicing, gold recovery, rules & regulations, and historical info about rich paystreaks and large gold nuggets. Lots of adventure stories.
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New Second EditionThe weekend explorer will find a fascinating area of California's rich gold rush history--The Rand Mining District--two hours north of Los Angeles. This is an area of wealth painfully scratched from the earth and all quickly lost, an era of ne'er-do-wells and dreamers, the lucky and the desperate. Here is a newly-revised and reworked edition of a popular guide to this fascinating mining district.
Splendidly Illustrated This book includes nine road maps to fascinating trips in the area, and 25 pages of photographs, including rare historic views.
An Historic Guide to the Area as well as a Road Guide for the Car This book encompasses a roughly rectangular territory from Red Rock Canyon on the west to the Pinnacles on the east. Within this area lie hundreds of mines, camps and diggings from by-gone days. Silent sentinels marking the hopes and dreams of the thousands of men who sought their fortune in the blazing sun of the eastern Mojave Desert. From the modern workings of the Yellow Aster Mine to the nameless prospects of the less than lucky miner. The traveler is introduced to the remains of one of California's most active mining areas.
A Valuable Handbook to Keep A day-trip guide for the off-road explorer, the desert enthusiast and the gold camp history buff, this includes detailed maps and directions for nine day trips, as well as histor
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New, revised and updated.
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The whole story of the Montana goldfields-Wild frontier days of hardship and sudden fortune. The well-known story and more is brought together for the first time, much never printed before. Turbulent,exciting, and filled with facts. Not just another rehash of old vigilante hangings. No Western bookshelf can be complete without Montana-The Gold Frontier.
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It has been said that Alaska holds some of the greatest riches in the world, all buried beneath it's unusual topography . Like like any place in the world Alaska has had its share of treasure, whether its rich golden paystreaks, precious gem stones, or remnants of a rich historical past. Probably what makes the north so unique is that our history is so recent. One of the biggest events that impacted the north was the Gold Rush. Today we still find many remnants of this past dotting the landscape, a reminder of past fortunes and failures of those who searched for buried treasure in the north. Gold, Ghost Towns & Grizzlies is about treasure in Alaska and the Yukon and covers subjects like lost gold mines, missing coins, rich paystreaks, gold robberies, golden mysteries of the north, and dilapidated ghost towns.
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This complete pocket manual takes you through all the steps in the process of panning for gold. The pictures and text are geared to the novice miner. The information covers facts about gold, equipment, proven panning techniques, and what and where to mine. One of the best little gold panning books available. Illustrated. 4" x 6" 28 pages.
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Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, Incorporated, Littleton, Colorado, U.S.A., 1983.
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