Mining Archaeology in the American West: A View from the Silver State

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203 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations Adams, William H., 175 adaptation. See coevolutionary model of adaptive change; coping strategies Adelberg and Raymond manuscript collection, 3 adits, 38, 40, 42, 43, 45, 53. See also shafts adobe houses, 121, 122, 124–25, 146–48, 156, 159. See also house sites Adolphus Busch, 130, 175 aeration tanks. See agitation tanks African Americans, 120, 175, 176 agitation tanks, 86, 89–91, 91, 97, 99, 100 agitators, 78, 79, 93, 181 Agricola, 107 Ah Ho, 145–47 air compressors, 41, 41, 60–61, 63, 103 Alaska, xiii, 12, 38, 39 Alder Gulch mt, xiii Allis-Chalmers ball mills, 95–99, 97. See also ball mills Allis-Chalmers gyratory crushers, 67, 95. See also gyratory crushers Allis-Chalmers tube mills, 69, 95–99. See also tube mills all-slime mills, 69. See also slimes Alton il, 131, 175 amalgamating tables or plates, 70, 93 amalgamation mills, 117. See also amalgamating tables or plates; amalgamation pans; pan amalgamation; patios amalgamation pans, 14, 77–78, 77, 93, 181. See also pan amalgamation; pans and bateas Amargosa City camp, 114 Amargosa River, 117 American Bottle Company, 130, 175 American City settlement, 1 American Flat, 22 Ams, Max, 132 andesites, 33 Anglo-European community, 119–22, 156. See also British immigrants; Cornish miners; European immigrants animals, 42, 49, 111 anvils, 66 Appalachian gold fields, 80 archaeological records, 15–28; adaptive change in, 184–85; on Consolidated Cortez Mill, 99–104; cultural adaptation model in, 179–80; of Eureka smelters, 105; feature systems of, 16–20; on Gold Bar Mine, 59; location of mining sites in, 21–23; of material networks, 175; of mining households, 134–70; of mining settlements, 118–34; of miningsettlement systems, 109–17; of mining site formation and structure, 20–21; multiple images of past in, 23–28; of Shoshone Wells house sites, 147–59; of Shoshone Wells stores, 146–47; of underground mining, 46; of ventilation systems, 52; on Victorian ideology, 177. See also assemblages; feature systems; house sites; mining landscapes; trash dumps and scatters architecture, 12–15, 23–28. See also buildings and structures Arctic Canyon, 11 Arctic Mine, 45, 45, 100–103, 111 Arctic Tunnel, 43, 99 argentite. See silver sulfide Arizona, 17, 34, 36, 37, 133, 177 204 Index arrastras, 17, 17, 18, 65, 65, 186 artifacts. See assemblages assaying, 20, 70, 104–7, 160. See also beneficiation assemblages: in archaeological study of households, 134; at Gold Bar settlement, 128–34, 159–70; as reflection of wealth and social status, 168; at Shoshone Wells settlement, 121, 148–59, 149, 150–52, 154–55, 157, 158; variability at Gold Bar settlement, 161–70, 161, 162, 164, 165, 166, 167; at Wenban’s house site, 137. See also archaeological records; ceramics; glass bottles; households; ironstone pottery; nails; tin cans; trash dumps and scatters Aurora il, 172 Aurora settlement, 1 Austin nv, 3, 7 Austin settlement, 1 Australia, 176 bailing out, 53 Baker and Hamilton, 172 ball mills, 65, 69, 95–99, 97, 117 Bancroft, Hubert H., 3, 83 The Bandeirantes (Morse), 170 Bannack mt, xiii barrel chlorination, 79–80 batholiths, 32–33. See also volcanic rock Beatty camp, 114, 115 Belleville il, 130, 175 beneficiation: architecture for, 12–14; chemical methods, 73–104; crushing and grinding methods, 64–70; definition of, 29, 64; simple collection methods, 70–73. See also assaying; chemical beneficiation; crushing and grinding; smelters and smelting Beowawe, 172 Bertrand Mill, 80–83 Bewick-Moering Syndicate of London, 111 Bickford slow-match fuses, 41 Big Bend National Park, 12 Billie Mine Portal, 13, 14 Bi-Metallic Mine, 115 Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, 36 biographies, 184–85. See also diaries Bisbee az, 36, 37 Bishop ca, 15 Black Hawk Flotation Mill, 72–73, 73, 99 Black Hills. See South Dakota blacksmith shops, 57, 58, 58, 160, 170 Blake’s jaw crusher, 67, 68, 87. See also jaw crushers blanket-and-pipe replacement bodies, 34 blanket sluices, 79. See also sluices and sluicing blanket tables, 70. See also amalgamating tables or plates blast furnaces, 104, 105 blasting, 41 Blue Bird Mill, 83 boarding houses: archaeological records of, 134, 135; at Gold Bar settlement, 58, 59, 126, 159, 163, 168–70; as part of architectural record, 15. See also bunkhouses; single-sex households; work group households Bodie ca, 9, 10, 13, 16, 30, 49 Bodie Standard Mill, 12 Boise Basin id, xiii Bonanza Mountain, 113–16 Bonanza nv, 114 bonanza ores, 33 bonanza periods, 135. See also boom-bust cycles boom-bust...