A Passion for Gold
Subtitle: An Autobiography
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780874175028
Subjects: Biography: general; Mining geology; 20th century; Earth Sciences - Geology; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Scientists - General; Biography/Autobiography; Nevada; Geologists; Regional Subjects - West; Biography; 1911-; Roberts, Ralph Jackson,; United States
Description: "Ralph J. Roberts's is not a household name in Nevada, but it should be - it was he who discovered the Carlin Belt gold deposits that created a major mining boom in the state in the last four decades of the twentieth century. But this discovery was only one episode of his remarkably eventful life. A Passion for Gold is Roberts's account of that life, a story as colorful and adventurous as that of any fictional hero."--BOOK JACKET.