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Cornwall open pit mine
Bethlehem Mines Corp. Colorado Digitization Project National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
Bethlehem Mines Corp.
Colorado Digitization Project
National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
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1880?
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The Cornwall mines were a series of shallow open pit iron mines near the town of Cornwall, Pennsylvania. They were started in the early 1740s to exploit the Cornwall Ore Banks, one of the greatest known iron ore deposits in the country at the time. The Cornwall Iron Furnace cast cannon for the Revolutionary War from these deposits. The mines were owned by the Cornwall Ore Banks Company and later the Bethlehem Steel Company. This photograph shows miners posing at the edge of the pit and others (including two African Americans) at the bottom of the pit along with two wagons.
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