In June 2021, the Mining History Association held its annual meeting in a virtual format for the first time, due to COVID-19. As incoming President of the organization, after ceremoniously “accepting” the official mining pick of office, I delivered the traditional presidential address via Zoom.

The talk, titled “Big and Small, They Mined Them All: Thinking About Scale in Mining History,” was really my chance to talk about the modern Nevada gold mining boom and specifically the Carlin Trend. Since the meeting was supposed to be in Elko, Nevada, I hoped that folks from outside the Mining History Association itself, who were involved in one way or another with the history I was describing, might be in the audience and moved to consider my ideas about the importance of preserving and interpreting this history.¹

However disappointed I was to not be able to be in Elko, at least the talk was recorded, and I am glad to be able to share it here. Thank you to Barbara Clements of the MHA for making it available!

Big and Small, They Mined Them All, by Eric Nystrom (Youtube)

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