It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW. (Book Reviews).
It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW. Edited by Edwin L. Brown and Colin J. Davis. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 1999. Pp. [xii], 184. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8173-1000-2; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8173-0999-3.) The United Mine Workers of America (UMW)...

Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner.
By Robert Armstead. As told to S. L. Gardner. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 255. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 1-57233-176-3; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-175-5.) Robert Armstead, a third-generation African American coal miner, collaborated with writer S. L. Gardner to produce this readable and useful memoir...

Boyd Hardwicke to consult on BC properties.
VANCOUVER, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ted Drummond, Kingsman's Chief Operating Officer, is pleased to announce the appointment of Boyd Hardwicke, P.Eng., a graduate of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. in 1955, as a consultant to the Board of Directors. As a student, Mr. Hardwicke worked...

Taxpayers Stuck with Cost of Giant Mine's Arsenic Clean-up.
The "polluter pays" principle is not being applied in Yellowknife. Instead, Canadian taxpayers will be saddled with much if not all of the estimated $250 million cost for cleaning up arsenic-contaminated wastes at Yellowknife's Giant mine. Over 250,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust, an extremely toxic gold...

Tourmaline and associated minerals from the Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, San Diego County, California.
The Tourmaline Queen mine, located on the northeast slope of Queen Mountain in San Diego County, California, is among the most well-known tourmaline-producing pegmatites in the world. It was originally staked as a quartz claim by Frank Salmons and others in 1903, and within a few years had become...

Pyromorphite and associated minerals from the Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Idaho.
The Bunker Hill mine is in the Coeur d' Alene mining district, Shoshone County, Idaho, in the town of Kellogg. It operated as a lead mine from 1887 to 1981, producing nearly 4 million tonnes of lead and zinc, plus 154 million ounces of silver. It also produced the...

Tourmaline and associated minerals from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California.
The Himalaya dike system in the Mesa Grande district of San Diego County, California consists of several relatively thin and remarkably continuous pegmatites that crop out along the east and north flanks of Gem Hill. The Himalaya mine is the northernmost and historically the most productive of three mining...

Copper sulfides and associated minerals from Butte, silver bow county, Montana.
The Butte district in southwestern Montana was discovered in the summer of 1864 by G.O. Humphreys and William Allison. The original prospects were worked for fine-grained placer gold, on what would come to be known as Butte Hill. Silver was also discovered late in 1864, and Butte regenerated itself...

Calcite, fluorite and associated minerals from the Elmwood mine, smith county, Tennessee.
The Elmwood-Gordonsville lead-zine deposit in north-central Tennessee is a classic. Mississippi Valley-type, low-temperature, hydrothermal emplacement. The ore-bodies formed within breccias and solution cavities in Ordovician-age limestones and dolomites belonging to the upper Knox Group in the Mascot and Kingsport formations. The minerals are deposited on the walls, floor and...

The Palomo mine Huancavelica Department, Peru.
Since 2000 the Palomo mine has sparingly produced excellent and distinctive specimens of realgar--the author of this article brought a fine lot of realgar specimens to the 2007 Tucson Show. Since mining formally ended in 2000, a few remaining miners have concentrated on recovering specimens, and good examples of...