Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet

by Timothy J. LeCain

Book Overview

The place: The steep mountains outside Salt Lake City. The time: The first decade of the twentieth century. The man: Daniel Jackling, a young metallurgical engineer. The goal: A bold new technology that could provide billions of pounds of cheap copper for a rapidly electrifying America. The result: Bingham's enormous "Glory Hole," the first large-scale open-pit copper mine, an enormous chasm in the earth and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813545293
• ISBN13: 9780813545295
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"