Mining History Association Journal

The Mining History Journal

Volume 28 - 2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Journal Articles

Stephanie Saagar-Bourret, Survey in an Instant: The Autumn Travels of David Dale Owen, 1839.

Cory Fischer-Hoffman, “Winding Down” the Company Town of El Tofo: Restructuring Labor and Capital in Chile’s Iron Mining Operations, 1949-1971.

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Robert P. Wolensky and Thomas D. Mackaman, Competitiveness, Control, and Decline in the Northern Anthracite Coalfield of Pennsylvania, 1890-1960.
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Robert McQueen, Mining “Invisible” Gold: Heap Leaching and Nevada’s Contribution to Twentieth-Century Gold Mining.
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Paul J. White, Breaking Ore, Breaking Bodies: The Wear and Tear of Work at an Alaskan Gold Mill.
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Lysa Wegman-French, Recent Publications on the History of Mining.
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Book Reviews

Homer E. Milford, et al., The Cerrillos Hills and Mining; Dolores, New Mexico, the West’s First Gold Rush; Thomas A. Edison and the Golden Dream: Dolores, New Mexico; Silver-Plated Deceit, the Story of Mining in Lake Valley, New Mexico.

Reviewed by Robert L. Spude
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Evan Y. Jones and York F. Jones, Iron Mining and Manufacturing in Utah: A History.

Reviewed by John W, Grubb
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Roger Burt, Miners, Mariners, and Masons: The Global Network of Victorian Freemasonry.

Reviewed by David M. Emmons
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Franklin White, Miner with a Heart of Gold: Biography of a Mineral Science and Engineering Educator.

Reviewed by Eric L. Clements
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Allison Margaret Bigelow, Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World.

Reviewed by Rocio Gomez
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Jarod Roll, Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950.

Reviewed by Ronald C. Brown
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Daniel Tubb, Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Columbia.
Reviewed by Fred Barnard and John Dreier
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Front Matter

(Front Cover) The remains of the ore bin of the Rattler Mine, in Boomerang Gulch along the Virginia Canyon Road – better known as the Oh-My-God Road due to its vistas and topography between Idaho Springs and Central City, Colorado. Located in 1879, the Rattler produced mostly silver. (Editor’s photo.)Reviewed by Fred Barnard and John Dreier
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Back Matter

(Back Cover) The Masonic Lodge and Kramer’s Saloon buildings on Main Street in Nevadaville, Colorado, a mile southwest of Central City. Established at the beginning of the gold rush in 1859, the town had 2,700 residents two years later. The brick-faced stone lodge was built in 1879, about the apex of Nevadaville’s population and prosperity. Slow decline began in the 1880s, the post office closed in 1921, and the town was effectively abandoned by 1940. (Editor’s photo.)
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