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A Kennecott Story : Three Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years, 1887-1997 /
"While copper may seem less glamorous than gold, it may be far more important. Copper proved vital to the industrial revolution and indispensable for the electrification of America. Kennecott Copper Corporation, at one time the largest producer of copper in the world, thus played a key role in...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1. Copper and Electricity; 1. The Dawn of the Age of Electricity; 2. The Origin of a Copper Empire; 3. The Apprentices; Part 2. Men and Their Mines from 1887 to 1922; 4. Copper Discoveries in Kennecott Copper Corporation's Homeland; 5. Discoveries at Bingham, Utah; 6. The Alaska Syndicate; 7. Stephen Birch; 8. An Alaska Political Interlude; 9. Daniel Cowan Jackling; 10. William Burford Braden; Part 3. Development of Mine Infrastructure and Technology to World War II; 11. The Human Component.
- 12. The Construction Eraand Mine Railroads13. New Mines; 14. Advanced Process Technology Comes to Alaska and the Porphyry Mines; 15. Copper Mining; 16. E. Tappan Stannard; Part 4. Capital Payback: Traditional and Otherwise; 17. The Syndicate Is Repaid and Kennecott Copper CorporationIs Formed; 18. The Beatson Mine; 19. Chemistry Contributes; Part 5. Mining from 1923 to the Korean War; 20. Copper; 21. Beginning of the End in Alaska and a Bright Spot in Chile; 22. Kennecott Goes to War; Part 6. Korean War to 1997; 23. Steel Man Cox; 24. Frank Milliken; 25. Barrow and Joklik; 26. Legacies.
- EpilogueAPPENDIX A. Copper Production and U.S. Production Price, Metal; APPENDIX B. Kennecott: Discoveries from World War II to 1995; APPENDIX C. Mineral Deposit Models: Important Copper Deposits; Glossary of Mining and Geologic Terms; Bibliography; Index.