San Benito County, California - Historic photos, documents, and people

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New Idria, California. Loading cinnabar, an ore containing mercury and sulphur, into a mine car with a mechanical loader. Triple-distilled mercury is produced from the ore at the New Idria Quicksilver

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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

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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

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New Idria, California. Collecting mercury by hand from soot deposited in the condenser chamber at the mercury extraction plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company

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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. A power shovel loading mercury ore, called cinnabar, at an open-cut mine of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company

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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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San Juan Bautista Third Street Historic District

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U.S. 101 near San Juan Bautista, California

San Benito County, California Historic photos, documents, and people