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The Mining West A bibliography and guide to the history and literature of mining in the American and Canadian West. A large and valuable reference set containing citations to over 25,000 articles, maps, pamphlets, books, literature, and lore.
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CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. The Box of Minerals II. More Minerals III. The Bottom of the Box IV. A Few Utah Minerals V. Metals of Great Value VI. Gold and its Production VII. A Lesson on Pearls and Rubies VIII. A Chat on
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Mining Deseret: an overview of the history of mining in Utah and the American West The territories comprising Deseret contained mineral values that helped finance the Civil War, fuel the Roaring Twenties, and usher in the atomic age. Silver, gold,
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Russell Hartill
Russell Hartill is a lawyer, mining historian, mineral collector, photographer and author. Russ has spent a half-century studying, prospecting, documenting, indexing, collecting and reviewing the world’s mineral resources while digitizing their historical record. He has traveled over 145,000 miles and visited 23 countries. His mindat page is at: https://www.mindat.org/user-11231.html
Russ has a BA in History with an emphasis on the oral history of the mining frontier. His JD is from the University of Idaho College of Law, with postgraduate work in the online delivery of adult education. He is a member of Phi Alpha Theta (the National History Honor Society) and the Society of Mining Law Antiquarians.
On the 100th anniversary of the 1872 Mining Laws, Russ founded the Living West, dedicated to the dynamic interpretation and dissemination of western American mining history. Now as Executive Director of the National Historic Mining Initiative (NHMI), Russ uses his multi terabyte Mac server farm to research and document the mining and economic history of the American West through text, images, sounds and artifacts. NHMI hopes to lead the celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1872 Mining Laws in 2022. Mr. Hartill is a subject matter expert on the history of the 1872 mining laws, frontier theory as it relates to mining history, as well as western American history and historiography. He is available for consulting, speaking engagements and in-studio projects at russhartill@gmail.com
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