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dc.contributor.authorPetersen, Max S.
dc.date1946-03
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:01:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:22:04Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:01:23Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:22:04Z
dc.identifierlibimagesU683a
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/6353
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2002-6-12.
dc.descriptionUSBM #62978; Loaded "cans" at top of incline ready to be lowered by hoist and cable. Martin Mine, Meloy & Baker, Benton, Wis. - M. S. Petersen - March 1946.
dc.descriptionHeld in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.
dc.descriptionDonor: United States Bureau of Mines.
dc.description.abstractA man pushes three cans on rails up an incline underground at the Martin Mine. The Martin Mine was an underground lead zinc mine near Benton, Wisconsin. The Upper Mississippi River Valley region (including southwestern Wisconsin) was being prospected for lead in the 1820s. By the 1850s it had become an important lead producing area. Zinc ores, previously discarded, were later identified as valuable and by the 1870s zinc production exceeded that of lead. The last zinc mine in the region closed in the 1970s.
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
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dc.subjectMiners
dc.subjectLead mines and mining
dc.subjectScenes, underground
dc.subjectUnderground mining
dc.subjectZinc mines and mining
dc.titleMartin Mine, miner pushing cans
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionArthur Lakes Library
dc.contributor.institutionRussell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
dc.contributor.institutionUnited States. Bureau of Mines


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