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Industrial landscapes

BLOGGING AT THE INTERSECTION OF
INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE 
AND  ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

1895 Mining Claims in Leadville, Co

9/27/2015

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Placer and lode mining claims in the Leadville, Co Mining District. (Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol, LX, pp. 78).
I scanned this map because I think it is a great representation of an historical mining landscape.   Both extremely convoluted and strikingly organized, with geologic and political boundaries meshing together in a geometric cacophony.  Maps like these illuminate how interpreting the historical mining landscape can be especially challenging, due to the scale of extraction and the overlapping of ownership from one claim to the next.   This historical complexity often obfuscates some of the envirotechnical activity that created the landscapes we see today, as well as makes tracking the environmental legacies within these landscapes troublesome. 
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    John Baeten is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Spatial Analysis of Environmental Change in the Department of Geography at Indiana University. He holds a PhD in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology from Michigan Technological University. His research aims to connect historical process to current environmental challenges, and to contextualize the environmental legacies of industrialization as meaningful cultural heritage.

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