Mining History

 

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
by H. W. Brands
Listed under California Gold Rush

Alaska's Oil, Gas and Minerals Industry, No. 4
by Alaska Geographic Editors
Listed under Oil Industry

Albert Eugene Reynolds: Colorado's Mining King
by Lee Scamehorn
Listed under Colorado History

All Nine Alive!: The Dramatic Mine Rescue That Inspired and Cheered a Nation
by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

American Iron, 1607-1900
by Robert B. Gordon

American Miners Carbide Lamps
by Gregg Clemmer
Listed under Antique Lamps

Anaconda Montana: Copper Smelting Boom Town on the Western Frontier
by Patrick F. Morris
Listed under Montana History

Anthracite Heritage Museum: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide
by Harold W. Aurand
Book Descripton: Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton focuses on the people, labor, and culture of coal mining and related industries in eastern Pennsylvania. The museum displays objects and images of the everyday life of coal miners and their families, including exhibits of household furnishings, religious artifacts, and work implements and machinery. Nearby Scranton Iron Furnaces, four stone blast furnace stacks built between 1848 and 1857 for the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, commemorate an industry that relied heavily on anthracite fuel and expanded as a result of it. Includes a tour of the museum and the furnaces.

Appalachian Coal Mines & Railroads
by Thomas W. Dixon

Appalachian Coal Mining Memories: Life in the Coal Fields of Virginia's New River Valley
by Mary B. Lalone

Arawata Bill: The Story of Legendary Gold Prospector William James O'Leary
by Ian Dougherty
Book Description "If you like the mystery of hidden gold and stories of a pioneering hero set amidst the awe-inspiring grandeur of South Westland, you'll like this book. The cost won't damage your pocket too much, and it'll do your heart good." New Zealand Wilderness.

Arizona's Ghost Towns and Mining Camps: A Travel Guide to History
by Philip Varney
Listed under Arizona History

The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan
by Kazuo Nimura
Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.90 x 9.25 x 6.20
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt); ;
ISBN: 0822320185

Aspen: The History of a Silver-Mining Town, 1879-1893
by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Listed under Colorado History

The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining
by Charles Wallace Miller, Jr.

Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic
by Kevin Krajick
Hardcover: 464 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.51 x 9.58 x 6.61
Publisher: W H Freeman & Co; ;
ISBN: 0716740265

Bath Iron Works (Images of America)
by Andrew C. Toppan

The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906
by Michael P. Malone
Listed under Montana History

The Bewitchment of Silver: The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru
by Jose R. Deustua

Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875
by Larry D. Lankton
Book Description Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. 

A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.
Paperback: 247 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.64 x 9.16 x 6.02
Publisher: Oxford University Press; ; (April )
ISBN: 0195132432

Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle of 31
by Stephen Lyon Endicott

Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner
by Robert Armstead

Blocton: The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town
by Charles Edward Adams

Blown to Bits in the Mine
by Eric Twitty
Charts the evolution of the use of explosives for mining and quarrying in North America from the Industrial Revolution into the twentieth century.

Blowout
by Robert Orrell

Boom Town Blues: Elliot Lake: Collapse and Revival in a Single Industry Community
by Anne-Marie Mawhiney

Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines
by Robert McIntosh

British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860-1901
by Clark C. Spence

The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
by Gerald M. Stern

Buried Treasures of the Rocky Mountain West: Legends of Lost Mines, Train Robbery Gold, Caves of Forgotten Riches, and Indians' Buried Silver
by W. C. Jameson
Listed under Treasure Hunting

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925
by David M. Emmons
Listed under Montana History

California's Gold Rush Country: A Guide to the Best of the Mother Lode
by Barbara Braasch
Listed under California Gold Rush

The Call of Gold: True Tales on the Gold Road to Yosemite
by Newell D. Chamberlain

Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film
by William B. Thesing

A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
by Liping Zhu

Chinese Coal Industry - An Economic History
by Elspeth Thomson
Listed under Chinese History

Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine
by Stephen M. Voynick
Listed under Colorado History

Coal: A Memoir and Critique
by Duane Lockard
Hardcover: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x 9.31 x 6.25
Publisher: University Press of Virginia; ; (September )
ISBN: 0813917840

Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (Blacks in the New World)
by Joe William, Jr. Trotter
Hardcover from Univ of Illinois Pr (Txt)
1990
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Coal Miners on Strike: The 111-Day 1977-78 Strike
by Nancy Cole

A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 (Dear America)
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Listed under Pennsylvania History

Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930
by Rick J. Clyne
Listed under Colorado History

Coal Town: The Life and Times of Dawson, New Mexico
by Toby Smith
Listed under New Mexico History

A Concise History of Mining
by Cedric Errol Gregory
Hardcover: 200 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 9.50 x 6.50
Publisher: Balkema Publishers; ; Revised edition (November )
ISBN: 9058093476

Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1948
by Thomas Miller Klubock

Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy
by Robert David Ward
Paperback: 176 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.56 x 8.26 x 5.96
Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr (Txt); ;
ISBN: 0817312137

Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America
by Jonathan D. Rosenblum
Paperback: 280 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.72 x 9.01 x 6.02
Publisher: Ilr Pr; ; 2nd edition
ISBN: 0801485541

Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
by Charles K. Hyde

Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
by James Frank Dobie
Listed under Treasure Hunting

Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines
by Larry Lankton
Book Description Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface.

Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining Camp: Fairbanks, Alaska
by Terrence Cole

De re Metallica
by Georgius Agricola
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.29 x 10.69 x 6.73
Publisher: Dover Pubns; ; (1950)
ISBN: 0486600068

Death Valley Prospectors
by Dane Coolidge

Death Valley to Yosemite: Frontier Mining Camps & Ghost Towns - The Men, The Women, Their Mines and Stories
by L. Burr Belden

Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925
by Perry K. Blatz

Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
by Matthew Hart
Listed under Gems

Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region
by John Stuart Richards
Listed under Pennsylvania History

Early Days on the Yukon: And the Story of the Gold Fields
by William Ogilvie

El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
by Raymond E. Dumett

Exploring The Ghost Town Desert: A Guide to the Rand Mining Area, its Natural and Historic Points of Interest
by Roberta Martin Starry

Eye of the Blackbird: A Story of Gold in the American West
by H. L. Skinner

Faded Footprints The Lost Rhoades Mines and Other Hidden Treasures of the Uintahs
by George A. Thompson
Listed under Utah History

Fortunes From the Earth: An History of the Base and Industrial Minerals of Southeast Alaska
by Patricia Roppel

Fortunes in the Ground: Cobalt, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake
by Michael Barnes
Hardcover from Boston Mills Press

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Four Days from Fort Wingate: The Lost Adams Diggings
by Richard French
Listed under New Mexico History

George Carmack: The Man of Mystery Who Set Off the Klondike Gold Rush
by James Albert Johnson

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico
by James E. Sherman

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of the San Juans
by Dave Southworth

Ghost Towns of Arizona: Remnants of the Mining Days
by Carolyn Bauer
Listed under Arizona History

Ghost Towns of Colorado: Your Guide to Colorado's Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns
by Philip Varney
Listed under Colorado History

Ghosts of Park County: A Guide to the Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of Park County, Colorado
by John K. Aldrich
Listed under Colorado History

Gold Camps and Silver Cities: 19th Century Mining in Central and Southern Idaho
by Merle W. Wells
Listed under Idaho History

The Gold Crusades: A Social History of the Gold Rushes, 1849-1929
by Douglas Fetherling

Gold Fever! Tales from the California Gold Rush
by Rosalyn Schanzer
Listed under California Gold Rush

Gold in Ontario
by Michael Barnes

Gold Mining and Politics--Johannesburg, 1900-1907: The Origins of the Old South Africa
by A. A. Mawby

Gold of the Americas
by Jennifer Marx

Gold Rush: The Black Hills Story
by John D. McDermott

Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West
by Vardis Fisher

Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail
by Arthur Thompson

The Goldseekers: A 200 Year History of Mining in Washington
by Pauline Battien
Listed under Washington

Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster
by Stanley Williamson
Welsh mining disaster.
Publisher: Liverpool Univ Pr; (March )

Grubstaking the Palouse: Gold Mining in the Hoodoo Mountains of North Idaho, 1860-1950
by Richard C. Waldbauer, Keith Petersen
Listed under Idaho History

A Guidebook to Mining in America, Volume 1: West: The Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and farther West
by John R. Park
Publisher: Stonerose Publishing Company; (April 1, )

A Guidebook to Mining in America, Volume 2: East: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Farther East
by John R. Park

Hard Drive to the Klondike: Promoting Seattle During the Gold Rush
by Lisa Mighetto
Listed under Washington

Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts
by Richard V. Francaviglia

High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado
by Lee Scamehorn

History of Placer and Quartz Gold Mining in the Coeur D'Alene District
by Robert Wayne Smith

The History of the Comstock Lode: 1850-1997
by Grant H. Smith
Listed under Nevada History

The History of the Gold Discoveries in the Northern Mines of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt As Told By The Newspapers and Miners 1848-1875
by Lewis J. Swindle
Paperback from Trafford Publishing

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Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
by Barbara Kingsolver
Listed under Arizona History

Hunting for Gold in Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains 1897-1951: With a Background Sketch of Alaska's Great Gold-Lode Camps
by William M. Stoll

Hydraulic Mining in California: A Tarnished Legacy
by Powell Greenland

I Am Rich Potosi: The Mountain That Eats Men
by Stephen Ferry

Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast
by John Randolph Spears

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town
by Peter Carstens

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town
(paperback)
by Peter Carstens

The Iron Hunter
by Chase S. Osborn

Iron Mine Trails: A History and Hikers Guide to the Historic Iron Mines of the New Jersey and New York Highlands
by Edward J. Lenik

Kate Rice: Prospector
by Helen Duncan
Book Description: Kathleen Rice was an inspiring woman who lived ahead of her time. Born in St. Marys, Ontario, she graduated as a gold medallist in Mathematics at the University of Toronto in 1906. After a conventional beginning teaching school in Ontario and Saskatchewan, Kate broke free of the mold, searching for new frontiers as a prospector in Manitoba during the gold rush. She formed a partnership with Dick Woosey and began a life in the remote areas around Herb Lake, prospecting and trapping. After Woosey's death, Kate faced her final and most difficult challenge - living alone in the wildness of the north.
Publisher: Simon & Pierre Pub Co Ltd;

Kenai Peninsula Gold
by Ron Wendt
Publisher: Goldstream Pubns;

King Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold Refining
by Andrew Ramage
Listed under Turkish History

The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise & Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields
by Donald L. Miller
Publisher: Canal History & Technology Press; (April )

Klondike Centennial Scrapbook: The Great Klondike Gold Rush
by Stan B. Cohen
Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc.; (March )

The Klondike Fever
by Pierre Berton
Publisher: Carroll & Graf; (October 1985)

Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush
by Pierre Berton
Publisher: Doubleday; Revised edition

Knox Mine Disaster: The Final Years of the Northern Anthracite Industry and the Effort to Rebuild a Regional Economy
by Pierre Berton

The Last Great Gold Rush: A Klondike Reader
by Graham Wilson

Legends of Texas: Lost Mines and Buried Treasure
by J. Frank Dobie

'Licentious Liberty' in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais
by Kathleen J. Higgins

Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922
by David Alan Corbin

The Lost Dutchman Mine of Jacob Waltz, Part 1. The Golden Dream
by Thomas E. Glover
Listed under The Lost Dutchman Mine

Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest
by Eugene L. Conrotto

The Making of a Hardrock Miner: An Account of the Experiences of a Worker in Copper, Molybdenum, and Uranium Mines in the West
by Stephen M. Voynick

Maps of the California Gold Region, 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartography of an Important Decade
by Carl I. Wheat
Listed under California Gold Rush

Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930
by Roberto R. Calderon

Michigan Gold: Mining in the Upper Peninsula
by Daniel R. Fountain

Midas of the Rockies: The Story of Stratton and Cripple Creek
by Frank Waters

Mine in the Sky
by Joseph M. Kurtak

A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850 - 1950
by Sally Zanjani

A Mine to Make a Mine: Financing the Colorado Mining Industry, 1859-1902
by Joseph E. King
Listed under Colorado History

Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930
by Ronald D. Eller

The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization 1890S-1930s
by Mildred Allen Beik

Miners on Strike: Class Solidarity and Division in Britain
by Andrew J. Richards

Mining, Assay, and Arts Handbooks
by Ernst Berg

Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government
by Charles Shinn

Mining Camps and Ghost Towns; A History of Mining in Arizona and California Along the Lower Colorado
by Frank Love

The Mining Camps Speak
by Beth Sagstetter

Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41
by Mary Murphy

Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880
by Elliott West

Mining in Chile's Norte Chico: Journal of Charles Lambert, 1825-1830
by Charles Lambert
 

Mining in World History by Martin Lynch Paperback from Reaktion Books

The Mining Industry (Tauris Industrial Histories)
by Trevor Boyns

Minnesota-Ontario Iron Ore Railroad
by Patrick C. Dorin
Listed under American Railroads

Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia
(Hardcover)
by Samuel R. Cook

Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia
(Paperback)
by Samuel R. Cook

Mountains of Silver: Life in Colorado's Red Mountain Mining District
by P. David Smith
Listed under Colorado History

Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal
by Nancy J. Taniguchi

Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps: Illustrated Atlas: Combined Edition
by Stanley W. Paher
Listed under Nevada History

Nine Alive: The Miraculous Rescue of the Pennsylvania Miners
Listed under Pennsylvania History

No One Ailing Except a Physician: Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919
by Duane A. Smith

The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska
by Clark C. Spence

Old Heart of Nevada: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko County
by Shawn Hall
Listed under Nevada History

Only a Miner; Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs
by Archie Green

Opal Adventures
by Paul B. Downing

Oregon's Golden Years: Bonanza of the West
by Miles F. Potter

Oro en Tierra del Fuego!
by Carlos Vairo

A Passion for Gold: An Autobiography
by Ralph J. Roberts

Pay Dirt: Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Alaskan Gold Miner
by Otis Hahn

Paydirt: The Spirit of Canadian Mining
by Iona Wright

Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields
by Barry P. Michrina
Listed under Pennsylvania History

Pit Women: Coal Communities in Northern England in the Early Twentieth Century
by Griselda Carr

Power and Violence in the Colonial City: Oruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru (1740-1782)
by Oscar Cornblit

Precious Dust: The Saga of the Western Gold Rushes
by Paula Mitchell Marks

Preserving the Glory Days: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Nye County, Nevada
by Shawn Hall
Listed under Nevada History

The Quest for California's Gold (Library of the Westward Expansion)
by James P. Burger

Quest for the Pillar of Gold: The Mines & Miners of the Grand Canyon
by George H. Billingsley

Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
by Brian Kelly

Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys
by Bonnie Christensen

Rich Earth: Alaska's Mineral Industry
by Alaska Geographic

A Rich Endowment: Government & Mining in Western Australia, 1829-1994
by Ken Spillman
Hardcover from University of Queensland Press
1994
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Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West
(Hardcover)
by Robert A. Trennert

Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West
(Paperback)
by Robert A. Trennert

The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode
by Ronald M. James
Listed under Nevada History

Rock Poker to Pay Dirt: The History of Alaska's School of Mines and Its Successors
by Leslie Noyes
Publisher: Univ of Alaska Foundation; (April )

Shale Voices
by Alistair Findlay
Publisher: Luath Pr;

Silver in the Sierra Madre: The Story of the Santa Cruz Mine and Philip W. Beckley
by Peter T. Flawn
 

Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 1546-1700 by P. J. Bakewell, Alan Knight Paperback from Cambridge University Press

The Silver Seekers: They Tamed California's Last Frontier
by Remi A. Nadeau

Six Years in Bolivia: The Adventures of a Mining Engineer
by Anselm Verener Lee Guise

Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1924
by Donald MacMillan
Listed under Montana History

The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History
by William Purviance Tams, Jr.

Smokestacks and Black Diamonds: A History of Carbon County, Pennsylvania
by Joan Campion
Listed under Pennsylvania History

Song of the Hammer and Drill: The Colorado San Juan, 1860-1914
by Duane A. Smith

Southwest Missouri Mining Area
by Jerry Pryor

Statistical View of the Trusts: A Manual of Large American Industrial and Mining Corporations Active Around 1900
by David G. Bunting

A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990
by Richard A. Brisbin Jr.

Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966
by Quentin Outram

Studies in Ancient Technology: Ancient Geology - Ancient Mining and Quarrying - Ancient Mining Techniques
by R.J. Forbes
Hardcover from Brill Academic Publishers

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Supplying the Mining World: The Mining Equipment Manufacturers of San Francisco, 1850-1900
by Lynn R. Bailey

Swift's Silver Mines and Related Appalachain Treasures
by Michael S. Steely

Tales of the Mine Country
by Eric McKeever

Texas Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasure
by Carlos Savoy

This Was Mining: In the West
by David W. Pearson

Three Iron Mining Towns: A Study in Cultural Change
by Paul H. Landis

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
by Howard Zinn
Hardcover: 174 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x 8.78 x 5.82
Publisher: Beacon Press; ;
ISBN: 0807050121

Three Years in the Klondike: A Gold Miner's Life in Dawson City, 1898-1901
by Jeremiah Lynch

Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
by Harriet Fish Backus

Tonopah: The Greatest, the Richest, & the Best Mining Camp in the World
by Robert D. McCracken

Trailing & Camping in Alaska: Tales of the Valdez Copper River Gold Rush
by Addison M. Powell

Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
by Karen Tintori
Listed under Illinois History

Treasure Hill: Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp
by W. Turrentine Jackson
Listed under Nevada History

Tributors, Supporters and Merchant Capital: Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone
by Alfred Zack-Williams
Listed under Sierra Leone

The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
by John H. M. Laslett

The Utah Gold Rush: The Lost Rhoades Mine and the Hathenbruck Legacy
by Kerry Ross Boren
Listed under Utah History

War of the Copper Kings
by C. B. Glasscock
Listed under Montana History

Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry
by Kenneth Warren

Western Mining: An Informal Account of Precious Metals Prospecting, Placering, Lode Mining and Milling on the American Frontier from Spanish Times
by Otis E. Young, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); (March 1982)

When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times
by Thomas Dublin
Book Description: The anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania, five hundred square miles of rugged hills stretching between Tower City and Carbondale, harbored coal deposits that once heated virtually all the homes and businesses in Eastern cities. At its peak during World War I, the coal industry here employed 170,000 miners, and supported almost 1,000,000 people. Today, with coal workers numbering 1,500, only 5,000 people depend on the industry for their livelihood. Between these two points in time lies a story of industrial decline, of working people facing incremental and cataclysmic changes in their world. When the Mines Closed tells this story in the words of men and women who experienced these dramatic changes and in more than eighty photographs of these individuals, their families, and the larger community.
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr;

Which Side Are You on: The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39
by John W. Hevener
Listed under Kentucky History

Who Controls Public Lands?: Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990
by Christopher McGrory Klyza
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr; (March )

Wisconsin Underground: A Guide to Caves, Mines, and Tunnels In and Around the Badger State
by Doris Green
Listed under Caving

Wounding the West: Montana, Mining, and the Environment
by David M. Stiller
Listed under Montana History

Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America
by David C. Duke
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky;

Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West
by Michael A. Amundson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado;
 

Anthracite Ghosts
by Walter Dinteman
ASIN/0940866447
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Fire Into Ice: Charles Fipke and the Great Diamond Hunt
by Vernon Frolick
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Dying for Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders
by Lee Selleck
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Gold Mining in North Carolina: A Bicentennial History
by Richard F. Knapp
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Great Klondike Gold Rush 1896 1904
by Dicks, Santor
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Have You Ever Lived in a Mining Town: The Life and Spirit of a Wonderful Woman
by Anna R. Chambers
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A History of Mining on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
by Mary J. Barry
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Labor Strategies in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mines, 1926-1936
by Jane L. Parpart
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The Raid on Dolores: Sweet Memories of a Mining Time Long Gone
by Antonio Flores
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Magnificent Rocks: The Story of Mining, Men, and Minerals at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey
by Susan B. Cooper
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Mining and Metallurgy on Postage Stamps
by Fathi Habashi
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We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines
by June C. Nash
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Wik, Mining and Aborigines
by Paul Kauffman
Publisher: Allen & Unwin;
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