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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A train bringing copper ore out of the mines, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge, Bingham Copper Mine, Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Looking down the valley toward Ouray from the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray [County], Colorado (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Old lead mines here have been reopened, Creede, Colo. Creede for many years was "a ghost town," but has resumed the activities that made it an important lead producing center years ago, and is now producing much vitally needed metal for the war effort (L
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- 2 comments
- 73 favorites
- 47,980 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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View of the Utah Copper Company open-pit mine workings at Carr Fork, as seen from the railroad, Bingham Canyon, Utah (LOC)
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- 52 favorites
- 45,788 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork bridge and main shops appear in the foreground (LOC)
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- 31 favorites
- 38,258 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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American Smelting and Refining, Garfield, Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Work at the Bakalskii mine (LOC)
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- 29 favorites
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2013-08-30
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Development at the site of the mill for the Mouat Chromite mine, Stillwater County, Montana (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Mine rescuer (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-04-11
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Oxygen helmets in mine rescues (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Reviving mine victims (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Coal miners (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Finleyville - at mouth of mine (LOC)
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- 18 favorites
- 10,896 views
- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2008-11-14
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[Union case for daguerreotype, ambrotype, or tintype showing the George Washington equestrian monument on the Virginia state capitol grounds by Thomas Crawford surrounded by seraphs, eagles and Union shields; back is design of seraphs, eagles, and shields
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- Date taken: 2012
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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Belgian women workers in coal mine (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-10-05
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Coal mine idle (LOC)
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- 2 favorites
- 9,120 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Cardiff mine disaster (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 8,386 views
- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2010-02-26
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In a coal mine (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Iron miners at work in an underground "drift", Sellers' Mine, Hibbing, Minn. (LOC)
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- 6,453 views
- Date taken: 1906
- Date uploaded: 2022-02-11
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Chisholm mine rescue device (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- 4,684 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-12-19
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Survivors of "DENVER" (LOC)
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- 3,757 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-05-25
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