Mining
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Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War Into the Progressive Era
$39.95 Add to cartFollowing the discovery of gold in 1862 at Auburn and Canyon City, new communities and prospects were established in eastern Oregon. Just as the lure of free land attracted homesteaders and livestock
- Author: Willingham, William F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645479
- Language: English
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Mining is Dead. Long Live Geopolitical Mining: Why Critical Minerals and Strategic Power Will Define the Next Global Order
$19.99 Add to cartMining Is Dead. Long Live Geopolitical Mining
The age of traditional mining has ended. Critical minerals-copper, lithium, cobalt, rare earths, and more-are no longer just commodities. They are the hidd
- Author: Zamanillo, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1069610690
- Language: English
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Enduring Legacies: People of the 1926 Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartOn November 3, 1926, catastrophe struck the Barnes-Hecker mine near the small town of Ishpeming in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In less than fifteen minutes, the mine caved in when a torrent of mud, wa
- Author: Tippett, Mary V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: June 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896560302
- Language: English
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The Caving Grounds: Poems
$34.95 Add to cartKathleen M. Heideman’s The Caving Grounds excavates the rubble of Negaunee, a small town in Upper Michigan hollowed by a century of mining. The extraction of hematite caused underground collapses and
- Author: Heideman, Kathleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1615998462
- Language: English
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The Caving Grounds: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartKathleen M. Heideman’s The Caving Grounds excavates the rubble of Negaunee, a small town in Upper Michigan hollowed by a century of mining. The extraction of hematite caused underground collapses and
- Author: Heideman, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1615998454
- Language: English
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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
$24.95 Add to cartThe Navajo Nation covers a vast stretch of northeastern Arizona and parts of New Mexico and Utah. The area is also home to more than one thousand abandoned uranium mines and four former uranium mills,
- Author: Doug Brugge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0826337791
- Language: English
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Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster
$29.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it
Foreword by Anne Murray
They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine
- Author: Cuthbertson, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 144346791X
- Language: English
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Bethlehem Steel
$40.99 Add to cartThe Lehigh Valley Railroad established the Bethlehem Iron Company in 1860 along the Lehigh River in South Bethlehem. The Bethlehem Iron Company manufactured the largest steel axle to date to support t… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Berger-Carmen, Tracy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1540251594
- Language: English
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mine Disaster of 1917
$30.00 Add to cartThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant — basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio — tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disast… [more below]
- Author: Punke, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 140130155X
- Language: English
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The Gold Prospector’s Field Guide: A Modern Miner’s Handbook for Successfully Finding Gold
$19.95 Add to cartGold prospecting is a fun and profitable adventure! Prices for the precious metal have reached record highs in recent years, and interest has soared amongst people who want to go out into the hills an
- Author: Grover, M. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736275038
- Language: English
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The Darkest Hour: A Comprehensive Account of the Smith Mine Disaster of 1943
$5.99 Add to cartOn February 27, 1943, an explosion at Smith Mine #3 in Washoe, MT killed 74 men in the worst mining disaster in Montana’s history. This is the story of the miners, the heroes in the rescue operation,
- Author: Kuhlman, Fay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0965960943
- Language: English
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Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History
$19.95 Add to cartThe Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History first appeared in 1963, a little book by a man with no training as either a writer or a historian. Since then, this volume has become an ess… [more below]
- Author: Tams Jr, W. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0937058556
- Language: English
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The Great American Turquoise Rush, 1890-1910, Hardcover
$40.00 Add to cartThe Great American Turquoise Rush was the period of the largest concerted effort to mine, process and market turquoise in the history of the United States. It started when traditional markets for the
- Author: Chambless, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1632931664
- Language: English
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Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
$18.95 Read moreIn the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.
‘A remarkably hopeful and useful book…The climate crisi- Author: Sanderson, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546199
- Language: English
