Synthesizing fifty years of research on American mining sites that date from colonial times to the present, Paul White provides an ideal overview of the field f

Mining History Association Clark C. Spence Award The mining industry in North America has a rich and conflicted history. It is associated with the opening of th

When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it

This book uses archaeology to tell 15,000 years of history of the indigenous people of the North American Great Plains.

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave tr