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Entries feature mining museums, museums with mining exhibits, educational and commercial visitable mines, viewable or visitable working mines, preserv
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ed ghost mining towns, mining monuments, and mining-related sites. Sites and topics of exhibits include: mining, mining equipment, stone quarrying, mining by Native Americans, ore mills, historic blast furnaces, metal refineries, lime kilns, charcoal kilns, coke ovens, saltworks (including sea-salt), saltpeter caves, petroleum production, pipelines, petroleum tankers, ore loading docks, ore boats, ore barges, canals, and ore/coal/petroleum hauling railroads. Mining-related sites include: mine superintendents' offices & homes, historic mints, assay offices, mining schools, forts built to protect miners, and cultural institutions financed by mining profits.
The Guidebook has an exceptional breadth of scope, covering the exploitation of mineral resources in the United States from prehistoric times to the present. Nearly all aspects of the mineral industry are included, from mining to the transportation of mined materials, to primary processing (e.g., historic blast furnaces). Readers will not find a complete history of any particular region nor mineral industry. Instead, they will find literally hundreds small "rarely told" stories and introductions to the larger more well known stories. Examples of "rarely told" stories are: Thomas Edison's obsession with the magnetic benefication of iron ore, lead mining and smelting by the Mesquakie Indians in the Upper Mississippi Valley, the Carlsbad area potash mines, diamond mines in Arkansas, sapphire mines of Montana, gilsonite mining in Utah, the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad in Alaska, the iron industry of Alabama, titanium mining in Florida, chromium mining in Maryland, the Great Lakes iron ore boats, historic sea-salt production on Cape Cod, gold dredging in Oregon, the Dahlonega Mint (Georgia), and hundreds of others. Of particular interest to some travelers are dozens of "bed and breakfast" inns which have historic mining connections.
Volume 1 contains 877 entries on 310 pages, 182 photographs, 16 maps, and 66 other graphics illustrate the entries.
57 Text Inserts (averaging ½-page in length) connect related entries and provide more in-depth information on: Alaska Gold; The Alaska-Juneau Mine; Ambrosia Lake Uranium Field; Anaconda Mining Company (AMC); Bingham Canyon Mine; Borax Mining; Butte, Anaconda, and Pacific Railroad; Butte Mines; California Petroleum; Carlsbad Potash Mines; Casino (Mining-Ghost) Towns; Col. Patrick E. Connor; Colorado Coal, Colorado Fuel and Iron Company; Colorado Gold; Colorado Uranium; Comstock Followers; Comstock Lode; Copper River and Northwestern Railroad; Couer D'Alene Silver Mines; Cripple Creek District; Denver & Rio Grand Railroad; The Douglas Family and Phelps Dodge Corp.; The El Paso & Southwestern Railroad; Fairbanks Exploration Company; George Hearst; The Great Diamond Hoax; The Guggenheim Family; Homestake Mine; Idaho Phosphate; Kennecott Copper Corporation; Klondike Gold Rush; The Leadville Area Mines; The Lost Dutchman Mine; Marcus Daly; Montana Sapphire Mining; Native American Mining in New Mexico; Nevada Gold and Silver; New Mexico Coal; North Dakota Lignite; Ophir Mining District; Pikes Peak Gold Rush; Pseudo Ghost Towns; Ski (Mining-Ghost) Towns; Spanish/Mexican Mining; State Line Diamond District; The Treadwell Mine; TransAlaska Pipeline; Uintah Railroad; United States Mints and Coins; Utah Gilsonite; Utah Uranium; W. A. Clark; Washington Coal; Wyoming Gold; Wyoming Iron; and Wyoming Trona Mining.
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