Main entry:

Goin, Peter, 1951- author.

Title & Author:

Changing mines in America / Peter Goin and C. Elizabeth Raymond.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Santa Fe, N.M. : Center for American Places, 2004.
Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Description:

xxxii, 207 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 21 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204).
Mining the visual -- Waste places? mining and the American landscape -- Recycling the mining landscape: Minnesota's Mesabi iron range -- Living in anthracite: legacies of mining in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania -- "Nobody around here glows": uranium's ambiguous aftermath in Karnes County, Texas -- "It's all in the mine": the radon health mines of Boulder-Basin, Montana -- World's biggest hole: creating and re-creating Bingham Canyon, Utah -- Mining illusions: the case of Rawhide, Nevada -- A mine is a terrible thing to waste: Eagle Mountain, California -- Physical graffiti: variant versions of American Flat, Nevada.

Summary:

"A bumper sticker says it all: "If it isn't grown, it has to be mined." Americans appetite for the good life is apparently insatiable, as the nation's annual consumption of newly mined materials is more than 47,000 pounds per person. Without minerals there would be no radiation therapy for cancer; no refrigerators or satellites; no toasters, toothpaste, or kitty litter. A single telephone requires up to forty-two different minerals, thirty-five for a television, and thirty for a personal computer. Without the steel manufactured from mined iron and coal, there would be no cars, trucks, or trains; no high-rise buildings, no Golden Gate or Brooklyn bridges; no razor blades. Without aluminum, there would be no airplanes; without sand and gravel, no roads, without salt, no life at all." "Most Americans today view mines as little more than "waste places," as ugly scars on the landscape that have no connection to an American way of life. This is an attitude that authors Goin and Raymond attempt to correct in their new work of photography and history. After an introduction to the history of mining in America, the authors present eight visual and historical essays about diverse mining sites in Pennsylvania, Texas, Minnesota, and the far West - each of which reveals that mines are more than physical degradations; they are evolving cultural artifacts on the American landscape. As the authors conclude : "Mined landscapes will never be pristine places, but they are hardly alone in that. The industry remains essential for our current standard of living. Given the American appetite for the products of mining, it behooves us to understand and appreciate both the intricacy and the physical and social legacies of their production."" "Changing Mines in America will appeal to general and academic readers interested in photography and the American landscape."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

1930066112
9781930066113
1930066120 (pbk.)
9781930066120 (pbk.)

Subject:

Mines and mineral resources United States Pictorial works.
Mines and mineral resources United States History.
Ressources minérales États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Mines and mineral resources
United States

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Raymond, C. Elizabeth.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237808
Call No.: TN15 .G65 2004
Status: Available