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The white chip
The Lost Dutchman was the most fabled gold mine of the Old West. Ever since Jacob Walzer struck gold in the Superstition Mountains of southwestern Arizona, hundreds of hopefuls had risked everything to comb the deadly mountains for it--and many never came back. Finally an unlikely caravan made up of a banker, a seasoned miner, two merchants, a butcher, and a smuggler found the exhausted mine--and a cleverly sealed-off entrance to its rich lode. The dizzying wealth was theirs for the taking. If they could retrieve it from the middle of an active volcano.
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The Nature of Gold
In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination.
In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times.
The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as gateway to the Klondike. A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle.
The drama of the miners journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West s last great gold rush.
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Breakthrough Infections of SARS-CoV-2 Gamma Variant in Fully Vaccinated Gold Miners, French Guiana, 2021
An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 caused by the Gamma variant of concern infected 24/44 (55%) employees of a gold mine in French Guiana (87% symptomatic, no severe forms). The attack rate was 60% (15/25) among fully vaccinated miners and 75% (3/4) among unvaccinated miners without a history of infection.
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Murdered Midas : a millionaire, his gold mine, and a strange death on an island paradise
On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold mining tycoon, philanthropist and \"richest man in the Empire,\" was murdered. The news of his death surged across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake, in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder became celebrated as \"the crime of the century.\" The layers of mystery deepened as the involvement of Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny, came quickly to be questioned, as did the odd machinations of the Governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. Despite a sensational trial, no murderer was ever convicted. Rumours were unrelenting about Oakes' missing fortune, and fascination with the Oakes story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores, for the first time, the life of the man behind the scandal, a man who was both reviled and admired - from his early, hardscrabble days of mining exploration, to his explosion of wealth, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial in the remote colonial island streets, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, who, despite his wealth and position, was never able to have justice.
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Practicability of a malaria rapid diagnostic self-test among artisanal gold miners in French Guiana: a cross-sectional study
Background
In French Guiana (FG), artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) workers represent mobile, hard-to-reach population with high malaria burden. Limited access to rapid diagnostic test (RDT) delays treatment, favours inappropriate use of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), and increases transmission and resistance risk. The Malakit intervention enables ASGM workers to self-diagnose and self-treat using RDTs and ACT in a free kit distributed by community health workers (CHWs) after a dedicated training session. This cross-sectional study assessed the praticability of the Bioline Malaria Ag P.f/P.f/P.v RDT among ASGM workers.
Methods
During Malakit training sessions, an independent observer evaluated participants’ knowledge of RDT use, ability to perform self-testing, and ability to interpret results. Each assessment was conducted using a specific tool and quantified with a corresponding sub-score, which were then combined in an overall practicability score. Associations with socio-demographic characteristics were explored using multiple linear regressions.
Results
From May to June 2024 forty participants were enrolled in Oiapoque, Brazil. The male-to-female sex ratio was 2.64 and median age 37 years [IQR 31.8-48.8]; 27.5% had no formal education. Following training, mean scores were: knowledge 83.9% [CI95 79.6–88.2], practice 84.6% [CI95 78.3–90.9] without assistance (100% with guidance) and interpretation 77.2% [CI95 70.7–83.8]. All RDTs performed yielded valid result. Correct interpretation rates were 96.0% [CI95 92.4–99.6] for positive strips, 70.0% [CI95 55.2–84.8] for negative strips, and 65.8% [CI95 56.6–75.0] for invalid strips. The overall practicability score was 81.9% [CI95 78.3–85.6]. In practice, all obtained a valid test (presence of the control strip).
Conclusions
The study demonstrated the practicability of malaria self-testing among non-professional users after structured training, with ASGM workers achieving an overall practicability score of 81.9%. Participants successfully performed RDTs (100% valid results with guidance) and accurately interpreted positive results (96.0%). This methodology provides a replicable framework for evaluating self-diagnostic strategies in hard-to-reach populations and supports integration of community-based malaria diagnosis into elimination programmes.
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The California gold rush
\"On January 24, 1848, pioneer James W. Marshall discovered gold in central California. When word got out, gold fever set in, drawing hundreds of thousands of pioneers to the state hoping to strike it rich. Discover the circumstances and effects of this event in The California Gold Rush.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Production, Safety and Teamwork in a Deep-Level Mining Workplace
In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes. Those experiences are of fundamental importance to a range of managerial concerns including organisational behaviour and human resource management, organisational safety and risk management, production systems, work relations and change management. Yet they are too often overlooked by the executives and managers who design management strategies. In this book, Sizwe Phakathi addresses such issues head-on, providing insights into the underlying social, human, managerial and organisational processes that shape workers' orientations towards reorganisation of work, production, safety, teamwork and work relations. Through an in-depth study of a deep-level mining workplace, Phakathi brings to the fore the realities of how work processes shape the actions of frontline teams, production supervisors and managers. He points out how these realities trigger the informal work practice of making a plan, which is an indispensable organisational tactic for production, safety, teamwork and work relations in the mining workplace. In the process, he highlights frontline miners' perspectives of managing, balancing and coping with the competing demands of physically challenging work, production, safety and team dynamics while at the rock-face. This book will help practitioners, policy-makers and researchers to understand the factors influencing work processes, production, safety, teamwork and work relations - not only in a mining workplace but more generally as well. The insights it provides into the importance of day-to-day lived working experiences will help them to improve organisational, employee and team performance.
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Shifting Livelihoods
People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines. Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Chocó, gold enables forms of \"shift\" (rebusque)-a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining's effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.
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