Gray Gold – Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment,…

Gray GoldLead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840\nAuthor(s): Mark Chambers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Tennessee Press, United States\nImprint: University of Tennessee Press\nISBN-13: 9781621906988, 978-1621906988\nSynopsis\nWhile the histories of gold, silver, and copper mining and smelting are well studied, lead has not received much scholarly attention despite a long history of both Native American and European desire for the ore. Over time, native peoples made lead ornaments in molds; French and American settlers used lead to form musket balls; red lead became an important production element for flint and crystal production; and white lead was used in making paint until the mid-twentieth century.\n\nGray Gold aims to broaden understandings of early colonial and Native American history by turning attention to the ways that miningand its scientific, technological, economic, cultural, and environmental featuresshaped intercultura.