Mining California
An Ecological History
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile-rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and gras…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-374-70720-0
- EAN: 9780374707200
- Produktnummer: 22459840
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'181 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: Includes 21 Black-and-White Illustrations, 3 Maps, 3 Tables, Notes, a Bibliography, and an Index
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Andrew C. Isenberg
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