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"One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California is an oral history of the development and operation of the McLaughlin Mine, the last major gold mine operated by the Homestake Mining Company in Napa County. It is a major contribution to mining history after 1980 in that it also depicts the lives of modern miners in a most productive gold mine of the late 20th century to the turn of the 21st"--

Produktbeschreibung
"One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California is an oral history of the development and operation of the McLaughlin Mine, the last major gold mine operated by the Homestake Mining Company in Napa County. It is a major contribution to mining history after 1980 in that it also depicts the lives of modern miners in a most productive gold mine of the late 20th century to the turn of the 21st"--
Autorenporträt
Eleanor Herz Swent is a past president of the Mining History Association and winner of the Rodman Paul award for contributions to mining history. She was born and raised in Lead, South Dakota, home of the Homestake Mine, and lived for many years in mining communities. In conjunction with the University of California-Berkeley Oral History Center, she helped create an oral history series on western mining and was the sole interviewer for this book. She currently lives in Palo Alto, California.