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The U.S. Bureau of Mines was established in the U.S. States Department of the Interior on May 16, 1910, pursuant to the Organic Act (Public Law 179), to deal with a wave of catastrophic mine disasters. The Bureau's mission was gradually expanded to include:
The original Geological Survey of California was replaced in April 1880 by the new California State Mining Bureau. This was renamed the Division of Mines in 1927. In 1962 the division's name was expanded to be California Division of Mines and Geology , a name that lasted until August 2006, when the state legislature renamed the division the ...
This list of mines in California is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the U.S. state of California. It is organized by the primary mineral output. It is organized by the primary mineral output.
State Mining Bureau 1903 photo of the open pit and tunnel of the "western cut" at Sulphur Bank Mine. The 1880 Census indicates more than 218 Chinese mine workers at Sulphur Bank Mine. The use of Chinese labor in the underground workings was pervasive in the mines of California. [37] Hostility towards the Chinese was also pervasive.
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Roger A. Markle was born on December 12, 1933, in Sidney, Montana to Forrest Markle. [1] [2] He attended a one-room schoolhouse up until eighth grade. [3]He then attended Montana School of Mines for two years while working weekends at mines in Butte.
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