Hydraulic Mining - Step by Step Instructions
Hydraulic mining is actually a method of mining gemstones! We've adapted it and used it as a method of digging a hole under an existing sidewalk or driveway without having to cut the concrete. It is useful for placing drain tile, pipes, or ... [... more]
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Hydraulic Mining in California: A Tarnished Legacy ...
 Author: Powell Greenland Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 338.47622342209794 EAN: 9780870623004 ISBN: 0870623001 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2001-06-01 [... more]
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Manual Of Hydraulic Mining: For The Use Of The Practical ...
Manual Of Hydraulic Mining: For The Use Of The Practical Miner (1913) [... more]
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Autry G-Stardust on the Sage
When a young radio commentator fakes Gene Autry's voice on her show telling cattlemen to invest their money in a hydraulic mining venture rather than in cattle, Gene must correct the error of her ways. Further investigation by Gene and his pal Smiley [... more]
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Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County
Nevada County is webbed with some of the richest veins of goldbearing quartz in the world. First discovered in 1849 as placer gold washed into creek beds, hydraulic miners later used massive jets of water to melt mountains and free the precious metal. [... more]
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City, Country, Empire
divA collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires./divdivIn the urgently expanding field of environmental history, two trends are emerging. Research has [... more]
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Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
California, America Only More So: I found Rush For Riches to be much more than just a beautifully illustrated book about California (more than 100 excellent pictures and sketches). It is foremost a story well-told, and it provides a framework for [... more]
$60.00
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The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining
Good perspective from grassroots to government levels.: Must admit that, as a mining engineer with 30 years experience, I was pleasantly surprised at the breadth of the book. Despite the nature of some of the topics addressed, it was not "dry" [... more]
$29.95
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Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
California, America Only More So: I found Rush For Riches to be much more than just a beautifully illustrated book about California (more than 100 excellent pictures and sketches). It is foremost a story well-told, and it provides a framework for [... more]
$38.95
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Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the ...
Comprehensive but compelling: For a native of the flood-prone Sacramento Valley, Battling The Inland Sea is the bible. Nowhere else is the history of a fitful battle against the annual floodwaters unleashed on the Sacramento Valley by the powerful Sierra [... more]
$26.95
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Assembling California
Amazon.com Review: As an explainer, John McPhee is a national treasure. The longtime "New Yorker" staff writer has taken us inside the world of art museums, environmental groups, fruit markets, airship factories, basketball courts, and atomic- [... more]
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Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the ...
All Hail the S & P!: This actually could have been a three star review, but I have to give credit to the thuroughness of the scholarship, the excellent photographs and the superb 200+ end notes, which are a mini-book in themselves. Orsi's book is & [... more]
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