978-1-933251-05-9
1-933251-05-0
$19.95 paperback
256 pages
b&w photos
Parkway Publishers |
Mining
in Western North Carolina played an important economic role in the lives
of its people and the state's history, but little has been recorded about
the industry, especially the day-to-day trials and triumphs of the
individual miner. Lowell Presnell, a descendent of a mining family,
recorded the tales of old-timers as they talked about discovering huge
books of mica, outrunning muck cars, and finding out in the nick of time
that a mine has bad air. He tells about Conrad Reed, who found an
interesting-looking rock that turned out to be a seventeen-pound gold
nugget and Dr. George Kunz, vice president of Tiffany's, who searched for
hiddenite, but had to settle for gem-quality emeralds instead.
about the author
Lowell Presnell is the second Vice President of the Southern Appalachian
Mineral Society. He plans and organizes trips to historic mines and
mineral deposits in Western North Carolina. |
