The Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper 1500-1870 Contributor(s): Krause, David J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 081432407X ISBN-13: 9780814324073 Publisher: Great Lakes Books Series OUR PRICE: $24.69 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1992 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - Social Science | Regional Studies - Technology & Engineering | Mining |
Dewey: 977.499 |
LCCN: 92-14640 |
Series: Great Lakes Books |
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" (0.88 lbs) 300 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |