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British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860-1901

British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860-1901

British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860–1901. By <italic>Clark C. Spence</italic>. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press for the American Historical Association. 1958. Pp. ix, 288. $4.50.)

British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860–1901. By Clark C. Spence. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press for the American Historical Association. 1958. Pp. ix, 288. $4.50.) Get access British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860–1901. By Spence Clark C.. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press for the American Historical Association. 1958. Pp. ix, 288. $4.50.) Robert G. Athearn Robert G. Athearn University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 64, Issue 4, July 1959, Pages 972–973, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/64.4.972 Published: 01 July 1959

Review: British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860-1901, by Clark C. Spence

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British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860–1901. By Clark C. Spence. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1958. Pp. ix + 288. $4.50.

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Outlook for Canada’s Mining Industry

THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK for the mining industry in Canada is very bright. Since World War II, the dollar value of our mineral production has tripled. Although the spectacular advances in oil and natural gas are responsible for a large share of the total, which now runs a little short of $1 V2 billion per year, metal production has made steady and remarkable progress; in fact, we are experiencing in the Canadian mining industry a period of expanding vigor more extensive and varied than at any previous time in our history. Canada has long been a major producer of nickel, copper, gold, lead, zinc, silver, cobalt, selenium, the platinum metals, aluminum, and asbestos. The range of our mineral resources has now broadened to include iron ore, uranium, lithium, titanium, and columbium, which have become metals of strategic importance in this new age of electronics, jet propulsion, and atomic power. These new discoveries and developments are widespread across our vast country, which is equal in area to the United States. Transportation and climate, of course, impose restrictions in the North, so that the grade of ore in remote areas has to be high to overcome the economic disadvantages; consequently the mining frontier lies far south of our territorial limits.

American Mining and Farming Frontiers - Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas: A Study in Adaption to Subhumid Geographical Environment. By James C. Malin. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1944. Pp. 290. $3.00.

American Mining and Farming Frontiers - Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas: A Study in Adaption to Subhumid Geographical Environment. By James C. Malin. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1944. Pp. 290. $3.00.

Forest and Mining Frontiers

Forest and Mining Frontiers

Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada

Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada. By A. R. M. Lower. Settlement and the Mining Frontier. By Harold A. Innis. (“Canadian Frontiers of Settlement”, edited by W. A. Mackintosh and W. L. G. Joerg, IX.) Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada. 1936. Pp. xiv, 424. ($4.50) - Volume 2 Issue 4