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Description: | The Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company, the owners of the rights to Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, was created in 1902. |
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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: | Elevated view of steam shovels at work, removing taconite from Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, functioning as an open cast mine because of its soft, shallo... |
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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: | Miners at work using steam shovels and railroad cars for transporting iron ore in Virginia, located on the Mesabi Iron Range. |
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Description: | Railroad cars pass through an iron ore mine pit in Virginia, Minnesota, home to the Mesabi Iron Range. |
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Description: | Trains transported iron ore through St. George every twenty minutes. A view of the city can be seen behind the railroad yard. |
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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: | Two miners in the interior of a mine. Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Caption reads: "Undergro... |
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Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A group of young men are shown mining underground. Caption rea... |
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Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A jig room is shown with a miner. Caption reads: "Typical Jig-... |
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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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Description: | Between 1883 and 1889, the twenty mule teams, such as this one, hauled more than 20 million pounds of borax out of Death Valley. The borax load was hauled ... |
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Description: | The loading dock of Freeport Sulphur Company, founded in 1912 in Freeport, Texas. |
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Description: | A crowd observes a sulphur well and natural gas at Toyah Basin, the location of the discovery of Permian gypsum deposits in 1854. |
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Description: | Mules and wagons can be seen with men on a rock bank while mining. Caption reads: "Rock Bank." |
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Description: | Workers stand near an automobile and pack of mules in Mariscal Mine. The mine produced 1,400 flasks of mercury, 1/4 of the US production, between 1900 and ... |
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Description: | The Mammoth and Standard Mining Mills has been producing silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper continuously since 1884. Caption reads: "Mammouth and Standard... |
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Description: | View of the Burke and Hecla Mine Buildings with mountains in the background. The company was incorporated in 1891. Caption reads: "Burke, ID. & Hecla Mine.... |
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Description: | A man stands outside the rock crusher at the Wisconsin Granite Company quarry. To the right, railroad tracks span the side of the building. |
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