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New Idria Mine - Rotary Kiln
Photographer: Andreas Feininger
Taken: December 1942
Caption: New Idria Mine - Rotary Kiln
Additional Description: "New Idria, California. A rotary kiln at the mercury extraction plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company. A 1200 degree Fahrenheit heat drives off the sulphur and vaporizes the mercury, later condensed"
Submitted: January 30, 2010, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p94502
File Size: 0.075 Megabytes

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