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New Idria, California. A mining car used at the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company's workings to haul cinnabar, an ore containing mercury
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New Idria, California. Tanks at the mercury extraction plant of the Quicksilver Mining Company where mercury is obtained from cinnabar, an ore mined at a number of workings near the plant
New Idria, California. Trucks, shovel, and crane used in loading cinnabar, an ore containing mercury, at an open-cut mine of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company's workings
New Idria, California. Trucks, shovel, and crane used in loading cinnabar, an ore containing mercury, at an open-cut mine of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company's workings
Date Taken
December 01, 1942