Romantic Copper: Its Lure and Lore

New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Very Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, some external soiling, pencil notes in margins of Chapter IV, vintage bookseller's label (Books Inc., Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco) on rear pastedown]. A highly-regarded popular history of copper mining, by (per Wikipedia) "an American mining engineer, economic geologist, and mining company executive, who specialized in exploration and mining of copper ore deposits. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Joralemon was involved in the discovery and development of numerous major copper and gold deposits, many of which went on to become operational mines. In addition to his professional career within the minerals industry, he was also a popular science author and historian of the mining industry." After his retirement, he published a revised and updated version of this book, under the title "Copper: The Encompassing Story of Mankind's First Metal." In 1985 he was inducted posthumously into the American Mining Hall of Fame. .