How the rush to mine the metal of the future echoes America’s colonial past

An Inside Climate News investigation says the U.S. lithium boom is accelerating, with many proposed mines near tribal lands ...
insider.si.edu

In quest of mineral wealth : aboriginal and colonial mining and metallurgy in Spanish America / edited by Alan K. Craig and Robert C. West

Part I. Aboriginal. Aboriginal metallurgy and metalworking in Spanish America: a brief overview / Robert C. West -- Observations on ancient mining within the Northwestern regions of the mesoamerican ...
WRAL

Mining gold in North Carolina: The anatomy of the first American gold rush

After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...
insider.si.edu

Mining Language Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Recreating the Archive -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction ...
Oregonian

Will gold mining return to Oregon? What this Portland historian learned from the past

Before Oregon was known for timber, it was known for gold. That’s the underlying message of the new book “Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era.” Its author, ...