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One shot for gold : developing a modern mine in Northern California / Eleanor Herz Swent with a foreword by Eric C. Nystrom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swent, Eleanor Herz, author.
- Series:
- Mining and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold mines and mining--History--California, Northern.
- Gold mines and mining.
- McLaughlin Gold Mine (Calif.)--History.
- McLaughlin Gold Mine (Calif.).
- Homestake Mining Company--History.
- Homestake Mining Company.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California is an oral history of the development and operation of the McLaughlin Mine, the last major gold mine operated by the Homestake Mining Company in Napa County. It is a major contribution to mining history after 1980 in that it also depicts the lives of modern miners in a most productive gold mine of the late 20th century to the turn of the 21st"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781647790066
- 1647790069
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