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Portal to Ruffner Mountain Drift Mine #3. Birmingham, Alabama.
Photographer: Tim Carr
Taken: March 20, 2008
Caption: Portal to Ruffner Mountain Drift Mine #3. Birmingham, Alabama.
Additional Description: Like the Champion and Taits Gap mines, other mines such as this drift mine in nearby Birnmingham, sought to profit from the area's rich mineral deposits. While the Ruffner Mountain Mines were underground, or drift, mines, the Taits Gap ore mines were open pit surface mines.
Submitted: March 8, 2010, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p99683
File Size: 0.586 Megabytes

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