Petersen, Max S.2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/6370Date scanned: 2002-6-12.USBM #62995; Scraper-loading slide, loading 2-ton truck, with a 32-inch scraper, pulled by I. R. 3-drum scraper hoist. Copeland (James) Mine, Gill Brothers, Shullsburg. Wisconsin. - M. S. Petersen - March 1946.Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.Donor: United States Bureau of Mines.A miner stands at a scraper loading slide, loading a truck underground at the Copeland (James) Mine. The scraper hoist pulls the loaded scraper towards the truck. The Copeland Mine (James Mine?) was an underground lead-zinc mine with surface workings in the Shullsburg area in the Upper Mississippi River Valley mining region of Wisconsin. The Upper Mississippi River Valley mining region was being prospected for lead in the 1820s and by the 1850s it had become an important lead producer. Zinc ores, originally discarded, were later identified as valuable. By the 1870s zinc production exceeded that of lead. The last zinc mine in the region closed in the 1970s.Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlGill BrothersLead mines and miningMinersOre handling and transportationScenes, undergroundUnderground miningVehiclesZinc mines and miningStillImage