The Legacy of American Copper Smelting
The Legacy of American Copper Smelting

Author: Bode J. Morin

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1572339861

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Throughout world history, copper has been a significant metal for a vast number of cultures, from the oldest civilizations on record to the Bronze Age and Greek and Roman antiquity. Though replaced by iron as the primary metal for tools and weapons in ancient civilizations, copper found new resurgence in the nineteenth century when it was discovered to have particularly high thermal and electrical conductivity. Copper mining quickly escalated into a large-scale industry, and because of its vast reserves and innovative mining techniques, the United States seized the reins of global production with the opening of significant copper mines in Tennessee and Michigan in the 1840s and Montana in the 1870s. Copper-mining prosperity and America’s dominance of the industry came with a heavy environmental price, however. As rich copper deposits declined with increased mining efforts, large deposits of leaner ores—oftentimes less than one percent pure—had to be mined to keep pace with America’s technological thirst for copper. Processing such ore left an inordinate amount of industrial waste, such as tailings and slag deposits from the refining process and toxic materials from the ores themselves, and copper mining regions around the United States began to see firsthand the landscape degradation wrought by the industry. In The Legacy of American Copper Smelting, Bode J. Morin examines America’s three premier copper sites: Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, Tennessee’s Copper Basin, and Butte- Anaconda, Montana. Morin focuses on what the copper industry meant to the townspeople working in and around these three major sites while also exploring the smelters’ environmental effects. Each site dealt with pollution management differently, and each site had to balance an EPA-mandated cleanup effort alongside the preservation of a once-proud industry. Morin’s work sheds new light on the EPA’s efforts to utilize Superfund dollars and/or protocols to erase the environmental consequences of copper-smelting while locals and preservationists tried to keep memories of the copper industry alive in what were dying or declining post-industrial towns. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the American history of copper or heritage preservation studies, as well as historians of modern America, industrial technology, and the environment.

MODERN AMER METHODS OF COPPER
MODERN AMER METHODS OF COPPER

Author: Edward Dyer 1849-1917 Peters

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781373561015

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Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting
Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting

Author: Edward Dyer Peters

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021749000

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This comprehensive guide provides detailed technical knowledge of modern methods of copper smelting, including the technical processes, tools, and equipment used in the copper industry. It also covers the history of the American copper industry and its contribution to the industrialization of the nation. A valuable resource for researchers and professionals in the field of metallurgy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Profit
Profit

Author: Mark Stoll

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2022-11-08

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1509533257

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Profit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, often deploying brutally effective methods to discipline people to do the work needed. Historian Mark Stoll explains how capitalism supercharged this process and traces its many environmental consequences. The financial innovations of medieval Italy created trade networks that, with the European discovery of the Americas, made possible vast profits and sweeping cultural changes, to the detriment of millions of slaves and indigenous Americans; the industrial age united the world in trade and led to an energy revolution that changed lives everywhere. But when efficient production left society awash in goods, a new sort of capitalism, predicated on endless individual consumption, took its place. This story of incredible ingenuity and villainy begins in the Doge’s palace in medieval Venice and ends with Jeff Bezos aboard his own spacecraft. Mark Stoll’s revolutionary account places environmental factors at the heart of capitalism’s progress and reveals the long shadow of its terrible consequences.

Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting
Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting

Author: Edward Dyer Peters

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781230267807

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...salt also undergoes decomposition, yielding at first a basic sulphate of copper, which, upon losing its acid, becomes a dioxide and eventually a protoxide of that metal. These last changes, however, require a protracted high temperature. The oxidation of the iron present is pretty well advanced at the time of the maximum formation of cupric sulphate; but it is not until the decomposition of at least 75 per cent. of the last-named salt that the formation of sulphate of silver begins with any considerably energy. When once fairly started, however, this interesting and important reaction progresses with great rapidity, and the decomposition of the comparatively large proportion of sulphate of copper present furnishes ample oxidizing influence for the minute quantities of sulphide of silver. The maximum formation of the latter substance usually coincides with the almost entire destruction of the former salt, and it is at this point that the Ztervogd calcination should terminate, as any further exposure of the silver salt to heat lessens its solubility in water, and may even threaten its existence. The complete decomposition of the argentic sulphate is only accomplished by a long exposure to a high temperature, which is now easily borne by most ores and mattes, the easily melted sulphides having been converted into almost infusible oxides and basic sulphates. Galena (sulphide of lead), when present, is converted almost entirely into a sulphate of that metal, which, by a higher temperature, is partially decomposed with the evolution of sulphurous acid and the final production of a mixture of free oxide of lead with sulphate, the proportions of these two substances varying according to the quantity of foreign sulphides present. Zincblende...

Copper for America
Copper for America

Author: Charles K. Hyde

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-03-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0816532796

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This comprehensive history of copper mining tells the full story of the industry that produces one of America's most important metals. The first inclusive account of U.S. copper in one volume, Copper for America relates the discovery and development of America's major copper-producing areas—the eastern United States, Tennessee, Michigan, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska—from colonial times to the present. Starting with the predominance of New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the early nineteenth century, Copper for America traces the industry's migration to Michigan in mid-century and to Montana, Arizona, and other western states in the late nineteenth century. The book also examines the U.S. copper industry's decline in the twentieth century, studying the effects of strong competition from foreign copper industries and unforeseen changes in the national and global copper markets. An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.