Gold, steel & ice
Subtitle: a history of mining machines in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Special history study
By: Chris Allan
Publisher: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780692504833
Subjects: Mining machinery; History; Gold mines and mining
Other titles: Gold, steel and ice :
Description: "The drama of the Klondike gold strike in the late 1890s and subsequent discoveries across Alaska made the region synonymous with glittering gold and overnight wealth. But pulling profit from the earth was never easy. Today visitors to Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve can explore mining camps that look as if workers simply dropped their tools, turned off their machines, and walked away."--cover.
Notes: 2016-0079-P

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Administrative summary; title: Introduction; title: Chapter one. A steam traction engine : winter hauling at Washington Creek; title: Chapter two. A steam donkey engine : excavating paydirt at fourth of July Creek; title: Chapter three. Steam boilers : the gold miner's battle with ice; title: Chapter four. Gold dredges : mining on an industrial scale; title: Chapter five. Prospecting drills : a machine for finding gold; title: Chapter six. Caterpillar-style tractors : the all-purpose mining machine; title: Conclusion.