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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
To test by fire: The assayer in the American mining West, 1848-1920
Abstract
dc:descriptionWestern history texts note that the assayer was essential to the discovery of new mining strikes. In his furnace he tested the prospector's ore, which if assayed high in gold or silver, caused a lively stir in the Western mining camp.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Spude, Robert Lester
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Spence, Clark C.
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1989 Spude, Robert Lester
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI8924946
(UMI)AAI8924946 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19328