The legacy of American copper smelting : industrial heritage versus environmental policy /
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 resurgen...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2013]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26248884 |
Table of Contents:
- The historic roots of copper production and smelter pollution
- The American system : a technological context
- Ducktown
- Montana
- Quincy smelter.