Authors: Ralph J. Roberts
ISBN-13: 9780874175028, ISBN-10: 087417502X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ralph J. Roberts's is not a household name in Nevada, but it should be - it was he who discovered the Carlin Belt gold deposits that created a major mining boom in the state in the last four decades of the twentieth century. But this discovery was only one episode of his remarkably eventful life. A Passion for Gold is Roberts's account of that life, a story as colorful and adventurous as that of any fictional hero.
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Preface | ||
1 | Geology 101: Nevada Gold and Mountain Building | 1 |
2 | The Early Years, 1911-1939 | 12 |
3 | Sonoma Range, 1939-1942 | 28 |
4 | The Antler Orogeny | 40 |
5 | Mineral Deposits of Central America | 55 |
6 | Military Geology | 68 |
7 | Postwar Washington, D.C., and the Defense Minerals Exploration Program: Salt Lake City USGS, 1950-1954 | 73 |
8 | Eureka County, 1954-1965 | 80 |
9 | The Oquirrhs: Bingham Copper-Gold Project, 1956-1971 | 106 |
10 | Life in Saudi Arabia, 1971-1978 | 118 |
11 | Ophir: Mahd adh Dhahab, "Cradle of Gold" | 132 |
12 | Dreams Turned to Ashes, 1960-2000 | 155 |
13 | Veka | 165 |
14 | Consulting, 1986-1994 | 173 |
15 | Mij | 186 |
16 | Epilogue | 194 |
App | Background on the Men of the USGS | 199 |
Glossary | 210 | |
References | 214 | |
Index | 223 |