| Description |
354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Geoscience and man ; vol. 33 |
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Geoscience and man ; v. 33.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part I. Aboriginal. Aboriginal metallurgy and metalworking in Spanish America: a brief overview / Robert C. West -- Observations on ancient mining within the Northwestern regions of the mesoamerican civilization, with emphasis on turquoise / Phil C. Weigand -- Pre-Hispanic metallurgy and mining in the Andes: recent advances and future tasks / Izumi Shimada -- Copper smelting in the Atacama: ancient metallurgy at the Ramaditas Site, northern Chile / Gray Graffam, Mario Rivera & Alvaro Carevic -- Ethnohistorical dimensions of mining and metallurgy in sixteenth-century northern Peru / Susan E. Ramirez. Part 2. Colonial. Black legends and silver mountains: Spanish mining in colonial Latin America reconsidered / Otis E. Young, Jr. -- Early silver mining in New Spain, 1531-1555 / Robert C. West -- Technology of mining in colonial Mexico: installations, tools, artifacts and machines used in the Patio process, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Ramon Sanchez Flores -- The territorial organization of metallic mining in New Spain / Alvaro Sanchez-Crispin -- Agricultural colonization and mining colonization: the area of Chihuahua during the first half of the eighteenth century / Salvador Alvarez -- American mining and European mining, 1750-1820: a comparative perspective / Julio Sanchez Gomez and Guillermo Mira Delli-Zotti -- Labor force and mercury production in Almaden, Spain, 1759-1808 / Rafael Dobado Gonzalez -- The Reception of modern scientific mining in an enlightened Mexico / Jose Luis Peset -- Processes in the advance and retreat of the mining frontier in southwestern Colombia during the colonial period / Maria Clemencia Ramirez de Jara -- Spanish colonial silver beneficiation at Potosi / Alan K. Craig -- The First refining mills in Potosi: design and construction / Peter Bakewell -- Silver mining at Juantajaya, viceroyalty of Peru / Kendall W. Brown & Alan K. Craig -- Attempted technological innovation in the late colonial Peruvian mining industry, 1766-1824 / John R. Fisher -- Early petroleum extraction and tar-boiling in coastal Ecuador / Karen Stothert. |
| Subject |
Mines and mineral resources -- Latin America -- History.
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Metallurgy -- Latin America -- History.
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Latin America -- History -- To 1830.
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Human geography -- Latin America.
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| Added Author |
Craig, Alan K.
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West, Robert C. (Robert Cooper), 1913-2001.
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| ISBN |
0938909576 |
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9780938909576 |
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