@article{338887,
      recid = {338887},
      author = {LeCain, Timothy J.,},
      title = {Mass destruction : the men and giant mines that wired  America and scarred the planet /},
      publisher = {Rutgers University Press,},
      address = {New Brunswick, N.J. :},
      pages = {xii, 273 p. :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {From the Publisher: Mass Destruction is the compelling  story of Daniel Jackling and the development of open-pit  hard rock mining, its role in the wiring of an electrified  America, and its devastating environmental effects.  This  new method of mining, complimenting the mass production and  mass consumption that came to define the "American way of  life"in the early twentieth century, promised infinite  supplies of copper and other natural resources.  LeCain  deftly analyzes how open-pit mining continues to adversely  effect the environment and how, as the world begins to  rival American resource consumption, no viable alternatives  have emerged.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/338887},
}