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The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labor on the South African Gold Fields, 1902-1939

Book by David Yudelman; Greenwood Press, 1983

Subjects:

Gold Miners--South Africa--History, Industrial Policy--South Africa--History, Industrial Relations--South Africa--History, South Africa--History--1909-1961

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...THE STATE AND THE GOLD MINES The transformation...the development of mining, particularly gold...argument that the mining capitalists lost...profits from the gold mines to subsidize...As long as the gold mines remained profitable...cut because the mining capitalists were...
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Gold at Fortymile Creek: Early Days in the Yukon

Book by Michael Gates; University of British Columbia Press, 1994

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--Yukon River Valley (Yukon And Alaska), Frontier And Pioneer Life--Yukon Territory, Gold Mines And Mining--Yukon River Valley (Yukon And Alaska), Gold Mines And Mining--Yukon Territory, Yukon River Valley (Yukon And Alaska)--Gold Discoveries, Yukon River Valley (Yukon And Alaska)--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The Discovery of Gold in the Klondike...A Mining Methods and Terms...camps of previous gold rushes, they managed...they established mining procedures for each...hootch. 24 The gold pan served universally...implement as well as a mining device. Bishop William...
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Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold

Book by Marshall Sprague; University of Nebraska Press, 1979

Subjects:

Cripple Creek (Colo.)--History, Gold Mines And Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek

Collections: History, Entire Library

...II Great Gold Camps of the World...III Cripple Creek Mining District: Population...different from placer mining, where a fellow simply picked up gold pure enough to put...April 5, to form a mining district. March...course, didnt make a gold rush but they made...
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South Pass, 1868, James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush

Book by Lola M. Homsher, Janes Chisholm; University of Nebraska Press, 1960

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--Wyoming, Gold Mines And Mining--Wyoming--Fremont County, South Pass (Wyo.), Wyoming--Description And Travel

Collections: History, Entire Library

James Chisholm's journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, of torrential rain storms and night packing, of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, in business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, to hit the big one.
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Ancestral Rain Forests and the Mountain of Gold: Indigenous Peoples and Mining in New Guinea

Book by David Hyndman; Westview Press, 1994

Subjects:

Human Ecology--Papua New Guinea, Mines And Mineral Resources--Papua New Guinea--Social Aspects, Wopkaimin (Papua New Guinea People)--Economic Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...contract in February 1981 to start gold mining at Ok Tedi. The Department of Minerals...relationship between the Wopkaimin and mining in terms of a struggle between different...relationship between the Wopkaimin and mining, thebibrefore has been a conflict...

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Mining

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...are the most common techniques, there are a number of other mining methods. In solution mining the valuable mineral is brought...Narrow, small holes are driven in order to extract the ore (e.g., gold) as cheaply as possible. In placer mining no excavation is involved...
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Gold Rush

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pursuit of riches was the California gold rush. The discovery of gold at Sutters Mill early in 1848 brought more than 40,000 prospectors...and industry grew rapidly to meet the needs of the settlers; mining, too, soon became big business as corporations replaced the...
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Gold

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

GOLD metallic chemical element; symbol Au Lat. aurum =shining dawn; at. no. 79; at. wt. 196.9665; m.p. 1,064.43 degrees...that it is not visible. It is found also in alluvial placer deposits, which are worked by panning, dredging, and hydraulic mining. Gold is extracted from its ores by mechanical means and separated from other metals by chemical processes, notably the...
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Siberia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mining began around 1700; gold mining did not develop until the 1830s...generally unproductive; the gold miners were usually free laborers...spurred the development of coal mining and the opening of repair shops...output, mainly in the form of gold. During the Revolution...
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Juneau

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Alaska Panhandle; settled by gold miners 1880, inc. 1900. A...Salmon and halibut fishing, mining, and tourism are also important...Juneau and a partner discovered gold nearby in 1880, and the city developed as a gold rush town. It was officially...

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