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| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | The shot tower at Tower Hill State Park. |
| Date: | 10 04 1928 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Hawkins Mine, with railroad tracks in the foreground. Buildings and a water tower are in the distance. |
| Date: | 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Mine building at a gold and mica mine operated by the Mineral Mining Corporation. A body of water is in the foreground on the left side of a partially cons... |
| Date: | 08 15 1938 |
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| Description: | A man standing with a dog near an International truck under a building owned by the Coshocton Black Coal Company. The company used PA-50 and 100K Morgan Ga... |
| Date: | 08 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Buildings owned by the Peacock Coal Company. A man is standing beside a small wooden structure on the side of a hill. There is a ramp angling up and away f... |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing next to mining cars near the opening of the Beam & Merritt mine as an International PA-50 power unit is installed. |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Men and ponies standing near a building and carts on railroad tracks at the Story & McDade coal mine. The mine operation was powered by an International PA... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men working at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp stand near a large building, possibly a sawmill, related to the mining operation. A steep hill rises in the... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a horse-drawn buggy on the dividing line between the Ferris-Hagerty property and the Leighton-Wyoming mines. Harry Dankoler is to th... |
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| Description: | Christmas greeting card featuring a view of a mining town with smokestacks, gravel piles, houses, large buildings and distant mountains. Surrounding the ph... |
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| Description: | Distant view of a mining operation and surrounding desert hills. Caption reads: "Mining Scene, Near Mojave, Cal." |
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| Description: | Evelyth, a rapidly growing mining city, began exporting its iron ore in 1884. |
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| Description: | The Hull Rust Mahoning Mine was mainly used for its supply of taconite, a low-grade ore that only came into demand after the high-grade natural iron ore wa... |
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| Description: | Two trains transporting taconite from Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Ore Mine, part of the Mesabi Iron Range, discovered in 1866. |
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| Description: | A view of the Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Ore Mine, with a residential area of Hibbing, Minnesota in the distance. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad cars transporting iron ore from the Mesabi Iron Range, once important because of the discovery of hematite, and then for its larg... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. |
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| Description: | Webb City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State ... |
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