One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California

by Eleanor Herz Swent

Winner of the 2023 Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association

An account of the creation of a modern, environmentally sensitive mine as told by the people who developed and worked it.

In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California's Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California's most productive gold mine in the twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647790069
• ISBN13: 9781647790066
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher