The Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper 1500-1870The Making of a Mining District is the first book to fully document the Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan's large amount of pure metallic "native" state, and the unique value of these deposits. The Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan is the only place on earth where large amounts of copper are found in the pure metallic "native" state. The Making of a Mining District is the first book to fully document how the value of these unique deposits came to be recognized, from the time Europeans first became aware of the native copper shortly after 1500 to the establishment of the region as one of the great copper mining districts of the world. |
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS | 10 |
KEWEENAW COPPER BEFORE 1800 | 19 |
AMATEURS PROFESSIONALS AND NATIVE COPPER | 44 |
HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT MEETS THE KEWEENAW | 60 |
DOUGLASS HOUGHTONCOPPER FINDS ITS COLUMBUS | 97 |
THE COPPER REPORT AND THE COPPER RUSH | 122 |
HOUGHTONTHE MISUNDERSTOOD PIONEER | 149 |
CHARLES T JACKSON AND THE FEDERAL SURVEY | 176 |
JACKSON AND THE EARLY MINING EFFORTS | 194 |
Other editions - View all
The Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper 1500-1870 David J. Krause Limited preview - 1992 |
The Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper 1500-1870 David J. Krause No preview available - 1992 |
The Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper 1500-1870 David J. Krause No preview available - 1992 |
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References to this book
"Time by Moments Steals Away": The 1848 Journal of Ruth Douglass Robert L. Root Limited preview - 1998 |