Illustrations

FIGURES

1.1.

Map of the mining sites and minerals examined in this book

1.1.

ASARCO operations at Cerro de San Pedro, 1920s

2.1.

Map of the Real del Catorce mining district, San Luis Potosí, New Spain/Mexico, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

3.1.

Map of the Colorado Front Range, 1860–1900

3.2.

The Silver Plume mining region, Clear Creek County, Colorado, 1870s

3.3.

The Boston and Colorado Smelting Company, Gilpin County, Colorado, 1870s

10.1.

Map of mines, settlements, and water bodies around Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

10.2.

Aerial view, Giant mine headframe and buildings, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1955

10.3.

Thermosyphons at Giant mine remediation test plot, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, May 2011

11.1.

Map of mines, mineral exploration, and mineral leasing in the Lake Superior watershed

11.2.

Map showing location of proposed Gogebic Taconite mine in relation to the Bad River Band Reservation, Lake Superior watershed

11.3.

Map of ceded territories of the Lake Superior Ojibwe

11.4.

Taconite tailing residue being discharged into Lake Superior, Silver Bay, Minnesota, June 1973

12.1.

Map of Alberta’s tar sands region, 1960s to today

TABLE

3.1.

Production of precious metals (gold and silver), Colorado Front Range mineral-producing counties, by decade, 1858–1900