Drills and Mills
By: Meyerriecks, WillPrice: $29.95
Will Meyerriecks, 2003. Great book on how mining and milling was actually done, with old and new black and white photos, lithographs, and line drawings. Chapter headings are: The Gold Rush; Placer Mining; Hardrock Mining; Timbering, Pumping, Explosives, Machine Drills; Transportation, Power and Fuel, Assays; Smelters and Refineries, Quicksilver and Zinc; Mill Machinery; Mines and Mills: Occupational Hazards, and Appendices. Great references for each chapter. 264 pages.
