Mining in Idaho: A Sampling of Sources at Albertsons Library
To go with The Deep Dark, this year's First Year Read, we have compiled a list of books related to mining in Idaho.  Mining has been very important to the state, and its impact is well-documented.  This list not comprehensive, but it does represent a variety of disciplines and perspectives.  For in-depth research, visit Special Collections on the 2nd floor.  To find out more. . . .  
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Deep dark : tragedy and redemption in America's richest silver mine / Gregg Olsen. Olsen, Gregg. 2005
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN315 .O58 2005
       
  100 years of mining / by Stella Luke ; based on paintings by James R. Buckham. Luke, Stella. 1995  
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor   Call Number: TN24.I2 L85 1995 
  Alteration geochemistry, fluid inclusion, and stable isotope study of the Red Ledge volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Idaho / by Richard H. Fifarek. Fifarek, Richard H. 1988
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: QE389.2 .F54 1988
  And five were hanged; and other historical short stories of Pierce and the Oro Fino mining district. Cover design and map by Robert W. Spencer. Spencer, Layne Gellner. 1968
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F754.P5 S6
  Arsenic speciation and water pollution associated with mining in the Coeur D'Alene Mining District, Idaho / by C.M. Wai, W.M. Mok. Wai, C. M. 1985
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TD224.I2 W347 1985
  Ballyhoo bonanza; Charles Sweeny and the Idaho mines. Fahey, John. 1971
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F752.S5 F3 
  Best management practices for mining in Idaho.   1992
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 B48
  Boise Basin brocade / by Dorine Goertzen ; illustrated by Vic Goertzen. Goertzen, Dorine. 1960
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F752.B67 G64 1960 
  Brief geological survey of the East Thunder Mountain Mining District, Valley County, Idaho / by Spencer S. Shannon, Jr. & Stephen J. Reynolds. Shannon, Spencer Sweet, 1927- 1975
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor   Call #: TN24.I2 A42 no.29 
  Coeur d'Alene Basin metals TMDL.   2000  
   
  BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TD224.I2 C63 2000  
  Coeur d'Alene mining district in 1963.   1963
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.133  
  Coeur d'Alene Mining War of 1892 : a case study of an industrial dispute. Smith, Robert Wayne, 1903- 1961
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor  Call #: HD5325.M8 1892 I32 
 
Contested space : the above and below ground landscape of Idaho's Coeur D'Alene mining district / by Robert McCarl. McCarl, Robert. 1997
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor   Call #: McCain F752.S5 M3 1997
  Controversial closure of the Bunker Hill Company : revisiting the question of culpability / by John Cantrell. Cantrell, John. 1996
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor   Call #: TN25.B86 C36 1996 
  Death of a proud union : the 1960 Bunker Hill strike / by Art Norlen. Norlen, Arthur. 1992
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor   Call #: HD5325.M8 1960 I3 
 
Deep dark : tragedy and redemption in America's richest silver mine / Gregg Olsen. Olsen, Gregg. 2005
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN315 .O58 2005
  Elementary methods of placer mining / by W.W. Staley. Staley, W. W. (William Wesley), b. 1898. 1944
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor
Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.35 
  Faulting in western Idaho, and its relation to the high placer deposits / by Stephen R. Capps ; prepared in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey. Capps, Stephen R. (Stephen Reid), 1881-1949. 1941
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.56 
  Fine gold of Snake River and Lower Salmon River, Idaho, by W.W. Staley. Staley, W. W. (William Wesley), b. 1898. 1945
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.72 
 
Fire in the hole : the untold story of hardrock miners / by Jerry Dolph. Dolph, Jerry, 1943- 1994
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN433.I2 D65 1994 
 
For Wood River or bust : Idaho's silver boom of the 1880s / Clark C. Spence. Spence, Clark C. 1999
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F752.B55 S64 1999 
  From hell to heaven : death-related mining accidents in north Idaho / Gene Hyde. Hyde, Gene, 1929- 2003
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN311 .H93 2003 
  Geochemical-exploration studies in the Coeur d'Alene District, Idaho and Montana / [Gott and Cathrall]. Gott, Garland Bayard, 1912- 1980
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN270 .G67 1980 
  Geochemical investigations of the Yellow Pine, Idaho and Republic, Washington mining districts / by Richard Dale Lewis. Lewis, Richard Dale. 1988
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: QE515 .L49 1988
  Geologic reconnaissance of the mineral and Cuddy Mountain mining district, Washington and Adams Counties, Idaho, by D.C. Livingston. Livingston, Douglas Clermont, 1877- 1925
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.13
  Geology and gold resources of Boise basin, Boise county, Idaho, by Samuel M. Ballard. Ed. by Arthur M. Piper. Ballard, Samuel Milroy, 1880- 1924
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor   Call #: TN24.I2 A4 no. 9   
  Ghost mining camps of Idaho : their history and how to find them / stories by Dorothy Povey. Povey, Dorothy. 1984
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F746 .P69 
  Gold at Dixie Gulch / by Marian S. Sweeney ; wildlife drawings by Del Flores. Sweeney, Marian S. 1982
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F754.D59 S94 1982 
 
Gold camps & silver cities : nineteenth-century mining in central and southern Idaho / Merle W. Wells ; with a foreword by Judith Austin. Wells, Merle W. 2002
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN423.I2 W423 2002 
  Gold in Idaho, by W.W. Staley. Staley, W. W. (William Wesley), b. 1898. 1946
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.68 
  Gold in the Black Pine mining district, southeast Cassia County, Idaho / by Bruce T. Brady. Brady, Bruce T. 1984
BSU Albertsons Library U.S. Govt. Pubs. -- 1st Floor Call #: Doc. Dept. I 19.3:1382-E 
 
Golden history tales from Idaho's Coeur d'Alene mining district / Wendell Brainard, author ; Ray Chapman, editor. Brainard, Wendell. 1990
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F752.S5 B73
 
Grubstaking the Palouse : gold mining in the Hoodoo Mountains of North Idaho, 1860-1950 / by Richard C. Waldbauer. Waldbauer, Richard C. 1986
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN423.I2 W35 1986 
  Guidebook to the geology of the Coeur D'Alene Mining District / by Arthur B. Campbell ... [et al.] ; R.R. Reid, editor.   1961
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A4 no.16 
  Historic ethnography of a Chinese mining community in Idaho / Darby Campbell Stapp. Stapp, Darby Campbell. 1990
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F755.C5 S73 1990a 
  Historical highlights of Idaho Springs mining camp days. / illustrated by C. Dyer Snow. Sowell, Merle L. 1976
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor Call #: McCain F784.I3 S6 1976
  History of gold mining on the Yankee Fork River, Custer County, Idaho / George C. Stephens. Stephens, George C. 1991
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor Call #: McCain F752.C9 S74 1991
  History of Idaho's dredge mining industry and the dredge mining control movement, 1896-1970 / by Darin W. Vrem. Vrem, Darin W. 2004
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN422 .V74 2004 
 
History of placer and quartz gold mining in the Coeur d'Alene District : a thesis / by Robert Wayne Smith. Smith, Robert Wayne, 1903- 1993
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN423.I2 S63 1993 
  History of the Bear Top, Ione, and Orofino Mines, Shoshone County, Idaho / Victoria E. Mitchell. Mitchell, Victoria E. 2000
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 S69 no.00-08 
  History of the Black Horse, Paragon, and St. Peter Mines, Shoshone County, Idaho / Victoria E. Mitchell. Mitchell, Victoria E. 2000
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 S69 no.00-07 
  History of the Princess Blue Ribbon Mine, Camas County, Idaho / Victoria E. Mitchell. Mitchell, Victoria E. 2000
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor
Call #: TN24.I2 S69 no.00-13
  History of the Seven Devils Mining District, 1884-1907 / by Marvin D. Binegar. Binegar, Marvin D. 1981
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 B5 
  Hybrid journalism : bridging the frontier/commercial cusp on the Coeur d'Alene mining frontier / by David J. Vergobbi. Vergobbi, David J. 1992
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor  Call #: PN4899.C63 V47 1992a 
  Hypothesis concerning the genesis of orebodies in the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho / Earl H. Bennett. Bennett, Earl H. 1984
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A46 no.84-7
  Idaho coal : H.F. Samuels and the Teton Basin mines / by Glen Barrett. Barrett, Glen. 1973
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor   Call #: TN805.Z6 T4  
  Idaho; facts and statistics concerning its mining, farming, stock-raising, lumbering and other resources and industries. Together with notes on the climate, scenery, game, and mineral springs. Information for the homeseeker, capitalist, prospector, and tr Onderdonk, James L. (James Lawrence), 1854-1899. 1885
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor Call #: McCain F746 .O58 
  Idaho gemstone, rock, and recreational mining guide / Idaho Geological Survey, University of Idaho.   1993
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: QE392.5.I2 I3 1993
  Idaho information guide : locating mining claims / U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office.   1998
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor Call #: KFI255 .I3 1998
 
Idaho minerals : the complete reference and guide to the minerals of Idaho with special chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains / by Lanny R. Ream. Ream, Lanny R. 1989
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor   Call #: QE375.5.I2 R43 1989
  Idaho Prospector's guide to locating mining claims and obtaining mining permits and licenses (with necessary forms) / by L.J. Ettinger. Ettinger, L. J. 1981
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor Call #: KFI255 .A65 .E8 1981
  Idaho's bonanza years; ghost towns, their history and how to find them. Original oil paintings by Rex Painter. Stories by Dorothy Povey. Painter, Rex. 1966
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor Call #: McCain F747 .P3 
 
Idaho's Bunker Hill : the rise and fall of a great mining company, 1885-1981 / Katherine G. Aiken. Aiken, Katherine G., 1951- 2005
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor Call #: HD9506.U6 B8642 2005 
  Interactions of mining and water resource systems in the southeastern Idaho phosphate field / by Dale R. Ralston ... [et al.] ; submitted to Office of Water Research and Technology, United States Department of the Interior.   1979
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TD195.M5 I58 1980
  Investigation of novel adsorptive separation methods for removal of trace metals from polluted areas / by Thomas E. Carleson, Brian Brazil, Mohsen Moussavi. Carleson, Thomas Edward. 1988
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TD427.T7 C37 1988
  Laws governing the staking and filing of mining claims in Idaho / compiled by Earl H. Bennett. Idaho. 1982
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A46 no.82-2
  Leaded waters : a history of mining pollution on the Coeur d'Alene River in Idaho, 1900-1950 / by Nicholas A. Casner. Casner, Nicholas A. 1989
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TD224.I2 C38 1989 
  Legal elements in mineral development with special reference to Idaho / by Olen Paul Matthews. Matthews, Olen Paul, 1942- 1980
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor Call #: KFI255 .M38 1980a
  Legal pitfalls, land status, and the acquisition of mineral rights / Olen Paul Matthews. Matthews, Olen Paul, 1942- 1985
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor Call #: KFI255 .M38 1985
  Microscopic studies on mill products from the Pine Creek Area, Yreka Mining District, Idaho. Prater, Lewis S. (Lewis Seward), 1915- 1949
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.86
  Mineralization in the Pine Creek area, Coeur d'Alene Mining Region, Idaho / by Thon Too Gin. Gin, Thon Too. 1953
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: QE359.U5 G56
  Mineralogical studies in the Bunker Hill Mine, Idaho / by Herbert Richard Shaw. Shaw, H. R. 1959
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: QE375.5.I2 S53
  Mining and treasure on Gold Creek, 1861-1973 / by Frank M. Milbert. Milbert, Frank M. 1987
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN423.I2 M55 1987 
 
Mining geology of the Seven Devils region / by Earl Ferguson Cook. Cook, Earl Ferguson, 1920- 1954
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.97
  Mining history of south-central Idaho / [by] Clyde P. Ross. Ross, Clyde P. (Clyde Polhemus), b. 1891. 1963
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor   Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.131
 
Mining town : the photographic record of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge from the Coeur d'Alenes / by Patricia Hart and Ivar Nelson. Hart, Patricia, 1950- 1984
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor  Call #: HD8039.M61 U47 1984 
  Mountain : Carriboo and other gold camps in Idaho / by Elaine S. Johnson and Ellen Carney. Johnson, Elaine S. 1990
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F752.C3 J64
 
Northwest lands, northwest peoples : readings in environmental history / edited by Dale D. Goble and Paul W. Hirt.   1999
BSU Albertsons Library -- 2nd Floor Call #: G155.N75 N66 1999
  Phosphate exploration and property evaluation in southeastern Idaho, illustrated by the Dry Valley area / by James Simon Spalding. Spalding, James Simon. 1974
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: QE389.64 .S63 1974
  Place and community in the mining West, Lemhi County, Idaho, 1866-1929 / by Hope Ann Benedict. Benedict, Hope A. 1996
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F752.L4 B46 1996a 
  Production statistics for the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho--1884-1980 / compiled by Victoria E. Mitchell, Earl H. Bennett. Mitchell, Victoria E. 1983
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A46 no.83-3
  Prospecting and mining for opal along the Snake River in southwest Idaho during the eighteen nineties : a brief history of Idaho's opal industry in Owyhee County and a sketch of the early-day mining camp of Opaline / Ron Brockett. Brockett, Ron. 1981
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN997.O7 B73 1981
  Rocky Mountain treasures / John M. O'Connor. O'Connor, John M. 1992
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor   Call #: TN24.I2 O25 1992 
  Role of mining in the economic development of Idaho Territory, and an excerpt on mining from Onderdonk's Idaho, published in 1885. Bolino, August C. (August Constantino), 1922- 1960
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 A42 no. 6 
  Ruins of a world : Chinese gold mining at the Mon-Tung site in the Snake River Canyon / Ronald L. James ; John C. Lytle, technical editor. James, Ronald L. 1995
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F755.C5 J35 1995 
  Rush to Idaho. by Merle W. Wells, Idaho Historical Society. Wells, Merle W. 1961
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 A4 no.19 
  Silver belt of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho / by P.J. Shenon and R.H. McConnel ; prepared in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey. Shenon, Philip J. (Philip John), 1897- 1939
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 A43 no.50 
  Silver lining in Idaho mining; a review of the Idaho mineral industry in 1961. Cook, Earl Ferguson, 1920- 1962
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN24.I2 A42 no.12 
 
Silver strike : the true story of silver mining in the Coeur d'Alenes / William T. Stoll. Stoll, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1859-1931. 1991
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN433.I2 S76 1991 
  Site inspection report for the abandoned and inactive mines in Idaho on and near U.S. Forest Service land (Region IV) [electronic resource] : U.S. Bureauf [i.e. Bureau] of Land Management properties, Mineral Hill and Camas Mining Districts, Hailey-Bellevu Mitchell, Victoria E. 2005
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TN24.I2 S69 no.05-12 
 
Six months in the new gold-diggings : placer gold mining in Idaho Territory in 1863 / John L. Campbell. Campbell, J. L. (John Lyle), 1818-1886. 1979
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F746 .C23 1979 
  Stone Cabin Mine : final environmental impact statement / prepared by CH₂M Hill ; prepared for U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Boise District, Idaho, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle, and U.S. Army Corps of Engine   1994
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN423.I2 S76 1994
  Stream-sediment geochemistry in mining-impacted streams : Prichard, Eagle, and Beaver Creeks, Northern Coeur d'Alene Mining District, northern Idaho / by Stephen E. Box ... [et al.] ; prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Burea   2005
BSU Albertsons Library U.S. Govt. Pubs. -- 1st Floor Call #: Doc. Dept. I 19.42/4-4:2004-5284
 
Stream-sediment geochemistry in mining-impacted streams : sediment mobilized by floods in the Coeur d'Alene-Spokane River system, Idaho and Washington / by Stephen E. Box, Arthur A. Bookstrom, and Mohammed Ikramuddin. Box, Stephen E. 2005
BSU Albertsons Library U.S. Govt. Pubs. -- 1st Floor Call #: Doc. Dept. I 19.42/4-4:2005-5011
  Structural geology of the Tony area, the Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Idaho / by James Kenneth Duff. Duff, James Kenneth. 1978  
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: QE104.S47 H85 1989   
  Structural geology of the Sunshine mine with special emphasis on the formation of the "Hook Area" veins, Coeur d'Alene Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho / by James Roger Husman. Husman, James Roger. 1989
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: QE104.S47 H85 1989
  Structures related to the Osburn fault, Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho. Mathewson, David C. 1972
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: QE104.S47 M38 1972
 
Sunshine Mine disaster / James Brock. Brock, James, 1958- 1995
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor  Call #: PS3552.R59 S86 1995
  Superfund and mining megasites : lessons from the Coeur D'Alene River basin / Committee on Superfund Site Assessment and Remediation in the Coeur d'Alene River Basin, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Natio   2005
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor  Call #: TD878.3.I2 S87 2005 
  To riot or not to riot : union labor strikes in Wood River Valley, Idaho, 1880-1890 / by Alicia Thomas. Thomas, Alicia, 1977- 2003
BSU Albertsons Library -- 3rd Floor  Call #: HD6515.M732 I28 2003 
 
Uncle Bunker : memories in words and pictures / Ray Chapman. Chapman, Ray. 1994
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TN25.B86 C49 1994 
  Water quality trend monitoring from 1979-1985 in the Stibnite Mining District, Valley County, Idaho / prepared by Patricia C. Klahr. Klahr, Patricia C. 1987
BSU Albertsons Library -- 4th Floor Call #: TD224.I2 W323 no.70
  Wyatt Earp and Coeur d'Alene gold! : stampede to Idaho Territory / Jerry Dolph and Arthur Randall. Dolph, Jerry, 1943- 2000
BSU Albertsons Library McCain Reading Room -- 2nd Floor  Call #: McCain F746 .D55 2000