Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America

by Eric C. Nystrom

Book Overview

Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode, were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground, Nystrom argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874179327
• ISBN13: 9780874179323
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"