Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America
(Part of the Mining and Society Series)
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Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode, were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground, Nystrom argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0874179327
ISBN13:9780874179323
Release Date:April 2014
Publisher:University of Nevada Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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