Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum - The Guided Tour - Part 1
Did you know that the Silicon Valley was once a mercury valley just about a century ago? Do you want to know what Almaden and the New Almaden mean? Check out the guided tour for these and more.
Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum - The Guided Tour - Part 4
Did you know that the Silicon Valley was once a mercury valley just about a century ago? Do you want to know what Almaden and the New Almaden mean? Check out the guided tour for these and more.
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S2E1: Old Mine Trail to Senador Mine Trail - Almaden Quicksilver County Park, CA - December 23, 2017
Old Mine Trail to Senador Mine Trail - Almaden Quicksilver County Park, San Jose CA - December 23, 2017
So glad to be back! Our friend Erik joined us on our first hike of the season. We took a quick trip on the McAbee Rd side of Almaden Quicksilver County Park.
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Trails We Hike was created by Jeremy Pruitt & Jim Smyth
Original music by Jeremy Pruitt (acoustic guitar) & Jim Smyth (percussion).
Video was shot on a Sony a6500 + Rode video mic + SmallHD Focus + Manfrotto tri-pod w/ video head, and a GoPro Hero 6 + Removu S1 gimbal. Footage was edited in Adobe Premiere w/ animation from Adobe After Effects.
The acoustic guitar is a Larrivee OM-40 in CGCGGC tuning, and the percussion is a Schlagwerk Bass Cajon and Cajinto with egg shakers. All instruments were recorded on a Zoom H6 and mixed using Avid Pro Tools First.
Almaden Property Management San Jose Presents: Fly over of Mine Hill Furnace @ Quicksilver Park
This video is about New Almaden Quicksilver Mines in San Jose, California. Back in the 19th Century, 4,000 people once lived and worked in the Quicksilver Mines. Today, these communities still stand as ghost towns. The New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association built trails that are open for everyone to hike and bike on.
Music used: Dusty Road, Where I Am From, and Golden Days from the Youtube Audio Library.
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Almaden Quicksilver County Park - Mine Hill Trail and April Trail Loop
Out for a quick mid-morning hike with Rose and Clyde.
Some minor scuttling leads to an interesting find. And those bugs are really loud.
Almaden Quicksilver is an old Mercury mine that was taken over by the county park system in the 1970's and has since been slowly restored.
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Due to the area's past many of the water ways through this area are contaminated. Please stay safe.
Classic Mazzones Bouldering/TNT & The Diehedrals/Almaden Valley/San Jose Ca
Bouldering with the boys back in the day!
Mercury in the Bay (updated) - KQED QUEST
There's a hidden danger that has been lurking in the San Francisco Bay since the days of Gold Rush mining: mercury. In 2008, the regional Water Board launched a multi-billion-dollar plan to clean up this potent neurotoxin, but mercury levels in fish and wildlife remain as high as ever.
This story updates our QUEST story from 2009:
Almaden Valley Real Estate Trends| Market Update December 2019
Almaden Valley Real Estate Trends| Market Update December 2019
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A short video of a hike on Quicksilver Mines Traail
Quicksilver County Part in San Jose, Calif., is the site of this very scenic short walk. For more details, see my blog:
San Jose, California | Wikipedia audio article
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San Jose, California
00:03:33 1 History
00:03:41 1.1 Pre-Columbian period
00:04:10 1.2 Spanish period
00:06:45 1.3 Mexican period
00:08:51 1.4 American period
00:15:37 2 Geography
00:17:22 2.1 Cityscape
00:19:17 2.2 Topography
00:21:23 2.3 Climate
00:25:45 2.4 Neighborhoods and districts
00:26:39 2.5 Parks
00:29:44 2.5.1 Trails
00:30:48 2.5.2 Wildlife
00:31:54 3 Demographics
00:32:21 3.1 2010
00:37:17 3.2 2000
00:39:57 4 Economy
00:42:57 4.1 Silicon Valley
00:45:27 4.2 Media
00:46:42 4.3 Top employers
00:46:56 5 Culture
00:47:05 5.1 Architecture
00:49:04 5.2 Visual arts
00:52:16 5.3 Performing arts
00:54:05 5.4 Sports
00:56:34 5.5 Landmarks
00:57:27 5.5.1 Museums and institutions
00:59:07 6 Law and government
00:59:16 6.1 Local
01:02:22 6.2 State and federal
01:03:31 6.3 Crime
01:04:47 7 Education
01:04:56 7.1 Higher education
01:08:22 7.2 Primary and secondary education
01:10:06 7.3 Libraries
01:11:32 8 Transportation
01:11:41 8.1 Public transit
01:13:45 8.2 Air
01:14:56 8.3 Highways
01:16:57 9 Notable people
01:17:07 10 Sister Cities
01:17:41 11 See also
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San Jose (; Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'; Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse]), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural and political center of Silicon Valley, and the largest city in Northern California (both in population and area). With an estimated 2017 population of 1,035,317, it is the third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego) and the tenth-most populous in United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of 179.97 square miles (466.1 km2). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, the most affluent county in California and one of the most affluent counties in the United States. San Jose is the most populous city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 8.7 million people respectively.San Jose is a global city, notable as a center of innovation, for its affluence, Mediterranean climate, and extremely high cost of living. San Jose's location within the booming high tech industry, as a cultural, political, and economic center has earned the city the nickname Capital of Silicon Valley. San Jose is one of the wealthiest major cities in the United States and the world, and has the third highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zürich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), according to the Brookings Institution. The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the most millionaires and the most billionaires in the United States per capita. With a median home price of $1,085,000, San Jose has the most expensive housing market in the country and the fifth most expensive housing market in the world, according to the 2017 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. Major global tech companies including Cisco Systems, eBay, Adobe Systems, PayPal, Brocade, Samsung, Acer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Western Digital maintain their headquarters in San Jose, in the center of Silicon Valley.
Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was inhabited by the Tamien nation of the Ohlone indigenous peoples of California. San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first city founded in the Californias. It then became a part of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican War of Independence. Following the American Conquest of California during the Mexican–American War, the territory was ceded to the United States in 1848. After California achieved statehood two years later, San Jose became the state's first capital. Following World War II, San Jose experienced an economic boom, with a rapid population growth and aggressive annexation of nearby cities and communities carried out in the 1950s and 1960s. The rapid growth of the high-technology and electronics industries further ...
Henry Halleck | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:14 1 Early life
00:06:28 2 Civil War
00:06:37 2.1 Western Theater
00:12:08 2.2 General in chief
00:15:20 2.3 Chief of staff
00:16:54 3 Postbellum career
00:18:35 4 Dates of rank
00:18:44 5 Selected works
00:19:43 6 Namesakes
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Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory: Old Brains. He was an important participant in the admission of California as a state and became a successful lawyer and land developer. Halleck served as General-in-Chief of all Union armies during the American Civil War.
Early in the Civil War, Halleck was a senior Union Army commander in the Western Theater. He commanded operations in the Western Theater from 1861 until 1862, during which time, while the Union armies in the east were defeated and held back, the troops under Halleck's command won many important victories. However, Halleck was not present at the battles, and his subordinates earned most of the recognition. The only operation in which Halleck exercised field command was the Siege of Corinth in the spring of 1862, a Union victory which he conducted with extreme caution. Halleck also developed rivalries with many of his subordinate generals, such as Ulysses S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell. In July 1862, following Major General George B. McClellan's failed Peninsula Campaign in the Eastern Theater, Halleck was promoted to general-in-chief of all U.S. armies. Halleck served in this capacity for about a year and a half.
Halleck was a cautious general who believed strongly in thorough preparations for battle and in the value of defensive fortifications over quick, aggressive action. He was a master of administration, logistics, and the politics necessary at the top of the military hierarchy, but exerted little effective control over field operations from his post in Washington, D.C. His subordinates frequently criticized him and at times ignored his instructions. President Abraham Lincoln once described him as little more than a first rate clerk.
In March 1864, Grant was promoted to general-in-chief, and Halleck was relegated to chief-of-staff. Without the pressure of having to control the movements of the armies, Halleck performed capably in this task, ensuring that the Union armies were well-equipped.