1.0School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences/iasAdam Romero publishes "Beyond the Mother Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicalization of California Gold Mining (1895-1905)" - School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciencesrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="NMMapxe8aP"><a href="/ias/news/2018/04/23/beyond-the-mother-load">Adam Romero publishes “Beyond the Mother Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicalization of California Gold Mining (1895-1905)”</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="/ias/news/2018/04/23/beyond-the-mother-load/embed#?secret=NMMapxe8aP" width="600" height="338" title="“Adam Romero publishes “Beyond the Mother Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicalization of California Gold Mining (1895-1905)”” — School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences" data-secret="NMMapxe8aP" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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IAS faculty member Adam Romero published "Beyond the Mother Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicalization of California Gold Mining (1885-1905)" in California History. The article narrates California's chemically induced second gold rush through the lens of synthetic cyanide. In coupling California's geological, environmental, and economic history to the changing nature of gold ore (“peak gold”) in the late 1880s, it explores the role that the development of cyanide leaching and ...