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New Idria Mine - Mercury Extraction Plant
Photographer: Andreas Feininger
Taken: December 1942
Caption: New Idria Mine - Mercury Extraction Plant
Additional Description: "Production. Mercury. A mercury extraction plant at New Idria, California. Triple-distilled mercury is produced here by the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company from cinnabar, an ore containing sulphur and mercury mined at a number of workings near the plant"
Submitted: January 30, 2010, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p94501
File Size: 0.030 Megabytes

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