A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho /

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"A revolution in placer mining from inception in the 1880s until its demise in the 1960s and its impact on Idaho, the nation's fourth leading producer of dredged gold which provides a lens through which to observe the practice and history of gold dredging around the world."

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spence, Clark C (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Placer mining.
Gold mines and mining.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mining.
Gisements alluvionnaires > Exploitation > Idaho > Histoire.
Placer mining > Idaho > History.
Gold mines and mining > Idaho > History.
Idaho.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Early Snake River Boom
  • 2 The Black Sands Craze
  • 3 The Burroughs Brothers
  • 4 Pierce
  • 5 Florence
  • 6 Elk City and Newsome
  • 7 Stanley Basin and Yankee Fork
  • 8 Salmon City and Leesburg
  • 9 South and Middle Forks of the Boise River
  • 10 The Yukon Dredge
  • 11 Warren
  • 12 Boise Basin
  • 13 Dredging Rare Metals
  • 14 Other Dredge Grounds and Snake-Salmon Rivers
  • 15 The Struggle for Dredge Control
  • 16 Aftermath: The Cleanup
  • 17 Overview
  • Epilogue
  • Brief Bibliographic Essay
  • Index.

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